1997 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

None These are the official results of the Men's triple jump event at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athens, Greece. There were a total number of 40 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Friday 1997-08-08. With the previous two major championships resulting in 18 metre jumps, expectations were high. All medalists from those championships made it into the finals. In addition to world record holder Jonathan Edwards and Olympic champion Kenny Harrison, there were three more athletes who had jumped beyond 17.70m Edwards was the first to get over 17m in the first round with a 17.33m. Near the end of the round, Yoelbi Quesada took the lead with a 17.60m and his Cuban teammate Aliecer Urrutia followed up with a 17.23m. At the end of the second round Quesada had his best jump of the day, a personal best of 17.85 and Urrutia moved into second place with his best 17.64m. After two round, Harrison only had a 17.05 to his credit, more than a metre less than his winning jump in Atlanta. Just before his final preliminary attempt he saw Christos Meletoglou put out a 17.12 to move into the eighth qualifying position, but next on the runway, Harrison could only make 17.04m and wouldn't be a player in the medals. In the fourth round, Edwards' 17.66m put him back into second place. On his final attempt he improved to 17.69m but couldn't overtake Quesada. Qualifying round Held on Wednesday 1997-08-06 with the mark set on 17.00 metres (8+4 athletes) RANKGROUP ADISTANCE1.Yoelbi Quesada CUB17.47 m 2.Jonathan Edwards GBR17.28 m 3.Kenny Harrison USA17.11 m 4.Christos Meletoglou GRE17.04 m 5.Jérôme Romain DMA17.03 m 6.Charles Friedek GER16.98 m 7.Brian Wellman BER16.84 m 8.Yoel García CUB16.79 m 9.Nikolay Raev BUL16.72 m 10.Andrey Kurennoy RUS16.59 m 11.Zoran Đurđević FR Yugoslavia YUG16.49 m 12.Ketill Hanstveit NOR16.45 m 13.Avi Tayari ISR16.45 m 14.Tibor Ordina HUN16.38 m 15.Sergey Arzamasov KAZ16.37 m 16.Georges Sainte-Rose FRA16.32 m 17.Volodymyr Kravchenko UKR16.24 m 18.Audrius Raizgys LTU 198816.21 m 19.Xavier Montane AND14.58 m—Aleksandr Tumanov TKM 1997NM RANKGROUP BDISTANCE1.Aliecer Urrutia CUB17.11 m 2.Andrew Owusu GHA17.05 m 3.Serge Helan FRA17.01 m 4.Armen Martirosyan ARM16.98 m 5.Denis Kapustin RUS16.96 m 6.Francis Agyepong GBR16.83 m 7.Raúl Chapado ESP16.80 m 8.Robert Howard USA16.63 m 9.Rostislav Dimitrov BUL16.62 m 10.Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa ZIM16.56 m 11.Vasiliy Sokov RUS16.42 m 12.Māris Bružiks LAT16.35 m 13.Oluyemi Sule NGR16.16 m 14.Yevgeniy Petin UZB16.13 m 15.Yuriy Osipenko UKR16.13 m 16.Zsolt Czingler HUN16.04 m 17.Paul Nioze SEY15.79 m —Majed Jabbar IRQ 1991NM—Paolo Camossi ITANM —Lao Jianfeng CHNDNS Final RANKFINAL RANKINGDISTANCE123456Image:Med 1.pngYoelbi Quesada CUB17.85 m17.60 17.8517.60XXXImage:Med 2.pngJonathan Edwards GBR17.69 m17.33X16.8017.66 17.57 17.69Image:Med 3.pngAliecer Urrutia CUB17.64 m17.2317.6417.25 15.67 XX4.Denis Kapustin RUS17.59 mXX17.2917.1917.59X5.Brian Wellman BER17.22 mX17.2216.90XXX6.Jérôme Romain DMA17.17 m16.7517.1716.8516.8716.6216.637.Christos Meletoglou GRE17.12 m16.75X17.12X16.4816.858.Andrew Owusu GHA17.11 m17.1116.7415.33X16.8216.389.Kenny Harrison USA17.05 mX17.0517.0410.Serge Helan FRA16.97 m16.89X16.9711.Charles Friedek GER16.86 m16.83X16.8612.Armen Martirosyan ARM16.70 m16.46X16.70 See also 1996 Men's Olympic triple jump References Results T Category:Triple jump at the World Athletics Championships