Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump


The Men's triple jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–9 August.
In the qualifying round, Christian Taylor made the automatic qualifier on his first attempt, Leevan Sands made the only other auto qualifier. The two Italian jumpers Daniele Greco and Fabrizio Donato anticipated the outcome and let their first attempt marks qualify them to the finals, taking the rest of the other rounds off. Lyukman Adams and Will Claye took all three attempts to get in a sufficient jump. Host team favorite 2009 world champion Phillips Idowu made it to the qualifying round, but could not advance.
In the first round, 35-year-old Fabrizio Donato took the lead over 40 cm ahead of Alexis Copello. In the second round Will Claye took the lead, while Donato improved and his teammate Daniele Greco moved into third. Meanwhile, reigning world champion Christian Taylor was struggling to find the board, taking until his third jump just to get a mark to allow him three more attempts. Donato improved again. In the fourth round Taylor put it all together, jumping 17.81 to take what turned out to be an insurmountable lead. Donato made another improvement for his best attempt 17.48, though any of his four legal jumps would have won the bronze. Then Claye secured another silver medal with a 17.62

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times. At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times.

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time
DateTimeRound
Tuesday, 7 August 201210:45Qualifications
Thursday, 9 August 201219:20Finals

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 17.10m or at least best 12 qualified.
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BChristian Taylor17.21
--17.21Q
2BLeevan Sands 17.17
-- 17.17Q
3ABenjamin Compaoré16.82
17.06
-17.06q
4ADaniele Greco17.00
--17.00q
5BDong BinX16.94
-16.94q
6ALyukman Adams16.67
X16.88
16.88q
7AWill Claye16.56
16.44
16.87
16.87q
8BFabrizio Donato16.86
--16.86q
9ATosin Oke16.59
16.83
X16.83q
10ASamyr Laine16.14
16.81
X
16.81q
11BAlexis CopelloX16.70
16.79
16.79q
12ADzmitry PlatnitskiX15.66
16.62
16.62q
13BSheryf El-Sheryf16.60
14.83
X16.60
14APhillips Idowu16.47
X16.53
16.53
15BIssam Nima15.21
X16.50
16.50
16AArnie David Girat15.74
16.42
16.45
16.45
17BHenry Frayne16.25
16.35
16.40
16.40
18BMuhammad Halim15.54
16.39
15.31
16.39
19AYevgeniy EktovX16.31
X16.31
20ACao Shuo16.11
16.26
16.27
16.27
21BRoman ValiyevXX16.23
16.23
22BKim Deok-Hyeon15.35
X16.22
16.22
23BYoandris Betanzos14.84
16.22
X16.22
24BMohamed Abbas DarwishX16.06
15.93
16.06
25AJosé Adrián Sornoza15.61
16.04
X16.04
26BJonathan Henrique Silva15.59
XX15.59
ARenjith MaheshwaryXXX

Final

RankNameNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6ResultNotes
Christian TaylorXX17.1517.8117.55X17.81WL, SB
Will ClayeX17.5417.4317.6217.2516.6617.62
Fabrizio Donato17.3817.4417.4517.48–X17.48
4Daniele Greco16.9017.34XX–16.9217.34
5Leevan SandsX17.1917.12X––17.19
6Benjamin Compaoré15.5317.0814.1616.2713.68X17.08
7Tosin OkeX16.9116.95XXX16.95
8Alexis Copello16.92XX14.75X16.6816.92
DSQLyukman Adams16.78XX16.78
10Dong Bin16.75XX16.75
11Samyr LaineX16.6516.5916.65
12Dzmitry Platnitski16.08X16.1916.19