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Triple Jump

The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first contested in 1996. It became the third Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump and long jump.

The Olympic records for the event are 18.09 m (59 ft 4 in) for men, set by Kenny Harrison in 1996, and 15.39 m (50 ft 5³⁄₄ in) for women, set by Françoise Mbango Etone in 2008. The men's triple jump world record was broken at the competition in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1956 and 1968. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, three men improved the record a total of five times at the high altitude of Mexico City. The women's world record has never been broken at the Olympics and the current mark of 15.50 m (50 ft 10 in), set in 1995, pre-dates the first Olympic event.

James Brendan Connolly was the first Olympic triple jump champion and, as it was the first event to conclude in 1896, he was also the first Olympic champion of the modern era. Inessa Kravets, the world record holder, became the first women's champion 100 years later. American Christian Taylor and Colombian Caterine Ibargüen are the reigning Olympic champions from 2016.

Overview


Sport	Athletics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896 – 2012 Women: 1996 – 2012
Olympic record
Men	18.09 m Kenny Harrison (1996)
Women	15.39 m Françoise Mbango Etone (2008)
Reigning champion
Men	Christian Taylor (USA)
Women	Caterine Ibargüen (COL)

Viktor Saneyev is the event's most successful athlete as he was Olympic champion three times consecutively from 1968 to 1976, as well as runner-up in 1980. Françoise Mbango Etone is the only woman to win two Olympic triple jump titles. Saneyev, Vilho Tuulos and Tatyana Lebedeva are the only three athletes to have won more than two Olympic medals in the event. The United States is the most successful nation in the event, with seven gold medals to its name. The Soviet Union is the next most successful, with four golds.

History, Records and Statistics of Men's Triple Jump

History, Records and Statistics of Women's Triple Jump

Medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens	James Connolly United States	Alexandre Tuffère France	Ioannis Persakis Greece
1900 Paris	Myer Prinstein United States	James Connolly United States	Lewis Sheldon United States
1904 St. Louis	Myer Prinstein United States	Fred Englehardt United States	Robert Stangland United States
1908 London	Tim Ahearne Great Britain	Garfield MacDonald Canada	Edvard Larsen Norway
1912 Stockholm	Gustaf Lindblom Sweden	Georg Åberg Sweden	Erik Almlöf Sweden
1920 Antwerp	Vilho Tuulos Finland	Folke Jansson Sweden	Erik Almlöf Sweden
1924 Paris	Nick Winter Australia	Luis Brunetto Argentina	Vilho Tuulos Finland
1928 Amsterdam	Mikio Oda Japan	Levi Casey United States	Vilho Tuulos Finland
1932 Los Angeles	Chūhei Nambu Japan	Erik Svensson Sweden	Kenkichi Oshima Japan
1936 Berlin	Naoto Tajima Japan	Masao Harada Japan	Jack Metcalfe Australia
1948 London	Arne Åhman Sweden	George Avery Australia	Ruhi Sarialp Turkey
1952 Helsinki	Adhemar da Silva Brazil	Leonid Shcherbakov Soviet Union	Asnoldo Devonish Venezuela
1956 Melbourne	Adhemar da Silva Brazil	Vilhjálmur Einarsson Iceland	Vitold Kreyer Soviet Union
1960 Rome	Józef Szmidt Poland	Vladimir Goryaev Soviet Union	Vitold Kreyer Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo	Józef Szmidt Poland	Oleg Fyodoseyev Soviet Union	Viktor Kravchenko Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	Nelson Prudencio Brazil	Giuseppe Gentile Italy
1972 Munich	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	Jörg Drehmel East Germany	Nelson Prudencio Brazil
1976 Montreal	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	James Butts United States	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil
1980 Moscow	Jaak Uudmäe Soviet Union	Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union	João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil
1984 Los Angeles	Al Joyner United States	Mike Conley Sr. United States	Keith Connor Great Britain
1988 Seoul	Khristo Markov Bulgaria	Igor Lapshin Soviet Union	Aleksandr Kovalenko Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona	Mike Conley Sr. United States	Charles Simpkins United States	Frank Rutherford Bahamas
1996 Atlanta	Kenny Harrison United States	Jonathan Edwards Great Britain	Yoelbi Quesada Cuba
2000 Sydney	Jonathan Edwards Great Britain	Yoel García Cuba	Denis Kapustin Russia
2004 Athens	Christian Olsson Sweden	Marian Oprea Romania	Danil Burkenya Russia
2008 Beijing	Nelson Évora Portugal	Phillips Idowu Great Britain	Leevan Sands Bahamas
2012 London	Christian Taylor United States	Will Claye United States	Fabrizio Donato Italy
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Christian Taylor United States	Will Claye United States	Dong Bin China

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Viktor Saneyev	Soviet Union (URS)	1968–1980	3	1	0	4
2	Myer Prinstein	United States (USA)	1900–1904	2	0	0	2
	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil (BRA)	1952–1956	2	0	0	2
	Józef Szmidt	Poland (POL)	1960–1964	2	0	0	2
	Christian Taylor	United States (USA)	2012–2016	2	0	0	2
6	James Brendan Connolly	United States (USA)	1896–1900	1	1	0	2
	Mike Conley, Sr.	United States (USA)	1984–1992	1	1	0	2
	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain (GBR)	1996–2000	1	1	0	2
9	Vilho Tuulos	Finland (FIN)	1920–1928	1	0	2	3
10	Will Claye	United States (USA)	2012–2016	0	2	0	2
11	Nelson Prudencio	Brazil (BRA)	1968–1972	0	1	1	2
12	Erik Almlöf	Sweden (SWE)	1912–1920	0	0	2	2
	Vitold Kreyer	Soviet Union (URS)	1956–1960	0	0	2	2
	João Carlos de Oliveira	Brazil (BRA)	1976–1980	0	0	2	2

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	8	8	2	18
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	5	4	13
3	Sweden (SWE)	3	3	2	8
4	Japan (JPN)	3	1	1	5
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	1	5
6	Brazil (BRA)	2	1	3	6
7	Poland (POL)	2	0	0	2
8	Australia (AUS)	1	1	1	3
9	Finland (FIN)	1	0	2	3
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
10	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
12	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	1	2
13	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Canada (CAN)	0	1	0	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	1	0	1
19	Bahamas (BAH)	0	0	2	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	2	2
22	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
	Venezuela (VEN)	0	0	1	1

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1996 Atlanta	Inessa Kravets Ukraine	Inna Lasovskaya Russia	Šárka Kašpárková Czech Republic
2000 Sydney	Tereza Marinova Bulgaria	Tatyana Lebedeva Russia	Olena Hovorova Ukraine
2004 Athens	Françoise Mbango Etone Cameroon	Hrysopiyí Devetzí Greece	Tatyana Lebedeva Russia
2008 Beijing	Françoise Mbango Etone Cameroon	Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan	Yargelis Savigne Cuba
2012 London	Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan	Caterine Ibargüen Colombia	Olha Saladukha Ukraine
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Caterine Ibargüen Colombia	Yulimar Rojas Venezuela	Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan

Multiple medalists

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon (CMR)	2004–2008	2	0	0	2
2	Caterine Ibargüen	Colombia (COL)	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
3	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2012–2016	1	0	1	2
4	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia (RUS)	2000–2008	0	2	1	3

Medalists by country

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Cameroon (CMR)	2	0	0	2
2	Colombia (COL)	1	1	0	2
3	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	2	3
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
6	Russia (RUS)	0	3	1	4
7	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
8	Venezuela (VEN)	0	1	0	1
9	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
10	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1