The Men's triple jump event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 4.
Seven made the automatic qualifying mark. The eventual winner was not one of them, barely qualifying with the 9th best mark.
Favorite Phillips Idowu led through the first three rounds as Will Claye failed to make a legal jump through the first two rounds, waited until his third jump to jump 17.50, to not only qualify for his final three jumps but to move into second place. In the fourth round, unheralded American collegian Christian Taylor popped 17.96, the number ten all time jump to blast into the lead. Idowu jumped 17.77 in his fourth attempt but was unable to improve upon that.
Medalists GoldSilverBronzeChristian TaylorPhillips IdowuWill Claye
Records Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows. World record18.29Gothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995Championship record18.29Gothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995World leading17.91Lausanne, Switzerland30 June 2011African record17.37Khemisset, Morocco14 July 2007Asian record17.59Jinan, China26 October 2009North, Central American and Caribbean record18.09Atlanta, United States27 July 1996South American record17.90Belém, Brazil20 May 2007European record18.29Gothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995Oceanian record17.46London, United Kingdom7 August 1982
Qualification standards A standardB standard 17.10 16.85
Schedule Date Time RoundSeptember 2, 2011 10:30 QualificationSeptember 4, 2011 19:05 Final
Results
Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final. Rank Group Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 Result Notes 1 B Alexis Copello 17.06 17.31 17.31 Q 2 B Nelson Évora 17.05 17.20 17.20 Q 3 A Will Claye 17.19 17.19 Q 4 A Phillips Idowu 17.17 17.17 Q 5 B Christian Olsson 16.55 17.16 17.16 Q 6 A Leevan Sands 17.13 17.13 Q, SB 7 A Benjamin Compaoré 17.11 17.11 Q 8 B Yoandri Betanzos 17.01 13.66 17.01 q 9 A Christian Taylor 16.99 16.81 16.99 q 10 B Fabrizio Donato 16.55 16.70 16.88 16.88 q 11 B Henry Frayne 16.54 16.83 16.64 16.83 q 12 A Şeref Osmanoğlu 16.81 16.73 16.81 q 13 A Arnie David Giralt 16.74 16.68 16.17 16.74 14 A Fabrizio Schembri 16.71 16.28 16.63 16.71 15 B Marian Oprea 16.61 16.19 16.61 16 B Tosin Oke 16.50 16.60 16.60 17 B Jefferson Sabino 16.18 15.91 16.51 16.51 18 A Aleksey Fyodorov 15.84 16.42 16.26 16.42 19 A Samyr Lainé 16.38 15.83 16.30 16.38 20 A Li Yanxi 15.68 16.28 15.42 16.28 21 B Hugo Mamba-Schlick 15.66 15.93 16.15 16.15 22 B Anders Møller 16.14 14.07 16.14 23 B Walter Davis 15.28 13.90 16.12 16.12 24 A Wilbert Walker 15.66 14.50 15.97 15.97 25 B Yevhen Semenenko 15.72 15.96 15.96 26 B Maximiliano Díaz 15.91 15.65 15.91 A Sief El Islem Temacini A Renjith Maheshwary A Kim Deok-hyeon A Tumelo Thagane B Yevgeniy Ektov
Final Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes Christian Taylor 17.04 17.40 17.96 15.64 17.96 WL, PB Phillips Idowu 17.56 17.38 17.70 17.77 17.48 17.49 17.77 SB Will Claye 17.50 17.30 17.14 17.50 PB Alexis Copello 17.19 17.36 17.47 16.11 17.47 Nelson Évora 17.35 16.80 16.63 16.18 16.57 16.95 17.35 SB Christian Olsson 17.23 16.80 17.22 16.75 17.23 Leevan Sands 16.81 17.07 17.12 17.21 16.59 17.21 Benjamin Compaoré 17.04 17.17 16.99 17.17 Henry Frayne 16.45 16.78 16.60 16.78 10 Fabrizio Donato 16.77 16.77 11 Yoandri Betanzos 14.93 16.22 16.67 16.67 12 Şeref Osmanoğlu 16.29 16.38 16.38
References
External links Triple jump results at IAAF website