2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 19 and 21 August 2023.

Summary

With 17.15m the automatic qualifier, only 18 year old world leader Jaydon Hibbert was able to muster such a distance, his 17.70m far outdistanced that requirement.

Seven time world medalist, #3 of all time, Will Claye put out the first mark over 16.50m with a 16.71m. Two jumpers later, Hibbert came down the runway but aborted his jump after hitting the take off board. Something was not right. He went to seek medical treatment and would not return. Two more jumpers, returning silver medalist Hugues Fabrice Zango hit a 17.37m to take a big lead. Towards the end of the round, Fang Yaoqing jumped 16.89m, to move into second place, only to be displaced by Yasser Triki with a 16.96m. In the second round, Claye moved back into second place with a 16.99m. Then Lázaro Martínez flew into the lead with a 17.41m. Zhu Yaming moved onto the leader board with a 17.12m. There were no changes until the fourth round, when Cristian Nápoles tickled the lead with a 17.40m. At that point the leaders were separated by 4cm. Near the end of the fifth round, Zango broke that up with what turned out to be the winner as none of the leaders could improve enough with their final attempts.

As it turns out, Hibbert's preliminary round jump would have been enough to take gold. Instead he finished with no mark.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World recordGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995Championship recordWorld LeadingBaton Rouge, United States13 May 2023African Record (i)Aubiere, France16 January 2021Asian RecordJinan, China26 October 2009North, Central American and Caribbean recordBeijing, China27 August 2015South American RecordBelém, Brazil20 May 2007European RecordGothenburg, Sweden7 August 1995Oceanian recordLondon, United Kingdom7 August 1982

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 17.20 m.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date Time Round19 August 19:37 Qualification21 August 19:40 Final

Results

Qualification Athletes attaining a mark of at least 17.15 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualify for the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 1 B Jaydon Hibbert 16.99 17.70 17.70 Q 2 A Zhu Yaming 17.14 – – 17.14 q 3 B Lázaro Martínez 16.65 16.50 17.12 17.12 q 4 A Hugues Fabrice Zango 17.12 – – 17.12 q 5 A Cristian Nápoles x 16.82 16.95 16.95 q 6 B Yasser Triki 16.95 – – 16.95 q 7 A Emmanuel Ihemeje 16.91 16.54 – 16.91 q 8 B Fang Yaoqing 16.83 16.80 x 16.83 q 9 B Tiago Pereira x x 16.77 16.77 q 10 B Will Claye 16.72 16.71 16.25 16.72 q 11 B Leodan Torrealba 16.72 x 16.54 16.72 q 12 A Chris Benard x x 16.71 16.71 q 13 A Tobia Bocchi 16.20 16.18 16.66 16.66 14 A Jean-Marc Pontvianne x 16.64 15.93 16.64 15 A Abdulla Aboobacker 16.61 16.60 16.60 16.61 16 A Necati Er x 16.59 16.32 16.59 17 B Su Wen x x 16.59 16.59 18 B Max Heß 16.48 x 16.28 16.48 19 A 16.00 16.40 15.99 16.40 20 B Praveen Chithravel 16.38 16.28 16.32 16.38 21 A Almir dos Santos 16.16 16.09 16.34 16.34 22 B Donald Scott x 16.33 16.30 16.33 23 A Dimitrios Tsiamis 15.99 15.95 16.22 16.22 24 A Kim Jang-woo 15.89 16.19 16.21 16.21 25 A 16.17 x x 16.17 26 B x 15.64 15.81 15.81 27 B Nikolaos Andrikopoulos 15.77 x x 15.77 28 A 15.75 x x 15.75 29 B Eldhose Paul 15.59 15.33 15.31 15.59 30 B Dániel Szenderffy 15.18 x 15.38 15.38 31 A Andreas Pantazis x 14.67 x 14.67 A Alexis Copello x x – NM A Julian Konle x x x NM A Jah-Nhai Perinchief x r NM A Geiner Moreno x x x NM A Pedro Pichardo

Final Results:

Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hugues Fabrice Zango 17.37 x 17.28 17.36 17.64 x 17.64 Lázaro Martínez x 17.41 16.55 x x 16.83 17.41 Cristian Nápoles x 17.02 x 17.40 x x 17.40 4 Zhu Yaming x 17.12 16.53 x 17.07 17.15 17.15 5 Yasser Triki 16.96 16.98 17.01 x 16.63 x 17.01 6 Fang Yaoqing 16.89 17.01 16.56 x – 15.61 17.01 7 Will Claye 16.71 16.99 x x 16.89 x 16.99 8 Emmanuel Ihemeje 16.27 16.84 x 16.91 16.74 16.56 16.91 9 Chris Benard 16.21 16.62 16.03 16.62 10 Leodan Torrealba 16.39 16.36 16.58 16.58 11 Tiago Pereira 16.26 x x 16.26 Jaydon Hibbert x – – NM

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