2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

Men's triple jump at the 2022 World Championships
Venue	Hayward Field
Dates	21 July (qualification) 23 July (final)
Competitors	32 from 16 nations
Winning distance	17.95
Medalists
Pedro Pichardo    Portugal   Hugues Fabrice Zango    Burkina Faso   Zhu Yaming    China

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The men's triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 21 and 23 July 2022.^[1]

Summary

With 17.05m the automatic qualifier, only two jumpers made it on their first attempt, Olympic Gold Medalist Pedro Pichardo and Olympic Silver Medalist Zhu Yaming. Returning bronze medalist Hugues Fabrice Zango and Lázaro Martínez made on their second attempt, Emmanuel Ihemeje, only 2 cm on his first attempt, finally got one on his third. It took 16.68m to get into the final, eliminating defending champion Christian Taylor who is still on the road to recovery from a 2021 achilles rupture.^[2]

As the second jumper in the final, Pichardo set a new world leader at 17.95 m (58 ft 10+1⁄2 in). Only two other people in the competition had ever jumped that far, none of the others had been within a foot (30cm). Three jumpers later, Zango popped 17.55m. The next jumper, Donald Scott moved into bronze position with a 17.14m which lasted only two jumps when Andrea Dallavalle hit a 17.25m. At the beginning of the second round, Pichardo confirmed his position with a 17.92m, then Zhu moved into the bronze medal position with a 17.31m. The results were set. Save a 6th round 17.17m from Ihemeje, nobody in the top 6 improved their position. Returning two time silver medalist Will Claye struggled with his marks and Martínez couldn't land a fair jump. Neither were able to qualify for three more attempts.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[3]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Championship record
World Leading	Jordan Díaz (CUB)	17.87 m	Nerja, Spain	26 June 2022
African Record	Hugues Fabrice Zango (BUR)	18.07 m (i)	Aubiere, France	16 January 2021
Asian Record	Li Yanxi (CHN)	17.59 m	Jinan, China	26 October 2009
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Christian Taylor (USA)	18.21 m	Beijing, China	27 August 2015
South American Record	Jadel Gregório (BRA)	17.90 m	Belém, Brazil	20 May 2007
European Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 August 1995
Oceanian record	Kenneth Lorraway (AUS)	17.46 m	London, Great Britain	7 August 1982

The following records were set at the competition:

Record	Perf.	Athlete	Nat.	Date
World Leading	17.95m	Pedro Pichardo	POR	23 Jul 2022

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 17.14 m.^[4]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
21 July	18:20	Qualification
23 July	18:00	Final

Results

Qualification

Athletes attaining a mark of at least 17.05 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualify for the final.^[5][6][7]

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Round			Mark	Notes
				1	2	3
1	A	Pedro Pichardo	Portugal (POR)	17.16			17.16	Q
2	B	Hugues Fabrice Zango	Burkina Faso (BUR)	16.72	17.15		17.15	Q
3	B	Emmanuel Ihemeje	Italy (ITA)	17.03	-	17.13	17.13	Q, SB
4	A	Zhu Yaming	China (CHN)	17.08			17.08	Q
5	B	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	16.97	17.06		17.06	Q
6	B	Jean-Marc Pontvianne	France (FRA)	x	16.95	x	16.95	q
7	A	Andrea Dallavalle	Italy (ITA)	16.86	16.75	-	16.86	q
8	A	Donald Scott	United States (USA)	x	16.74	16.84	16.84	q
9	A	Almir dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	16.32	16.52	16.71	16.71	q
10	B	Will Claye	United States (USA)	15.98	16.25	16.70	16.70	q
11	B	Tiago Pereira	Portugal (POR)	x	16.69	16.56	16.69	q
12	A	Eldhose Paul	India (IND)	16.12	16.68	16.34	16.68	q
13	A	Max Heß	Germany (GER)	16.64	15.69	16.56	16.64
14	B	Enzo Hodebar [fr]	France (FRA)	16.64	x	x	16.64
15	B	Tobia Bocchi	Italy (ITA)	16.58	x	16.20	16.58
16	B	Chris Benard	United States (USA)	x	x	16.53	16.53
17	A	Praveen Chithravel	India (IND)	x	16.30	16.49	16.49
18	A	Christian Taylor	United States (USA)	16.17	16.48	16.44	16.48
19	B	Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevida	India (IND)	15.92	16.45	16.44	16.45
20	A	Jordan Scott	Jamaica (JAM)	x	x	16.42	16.42
21	A	Andy Hechavarría	Cuba (CUB)	x	16.02	16.39	16.39
22	A	Jah-Nhai Perinchief	Bermuda (BER)	16.38	x	16.26	16.38
23	A	Pablo Torrijos	Spain (ESP)	x	16.32	x	16.32
24	B	Mateus de Sá	Brazil (BRA)	16.04	16.03	x	16.04
25	A	Benjamin Compaoré	France (FRA)	x	16.03	x	16.03
26	A	Ben Williams	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	x	x	15.98	15.98
27	B	Chengetayi Mapaya	Zimbabwe (ZIM)	x	15.75	x	15.75
	B	Alexsandro Melo	Brazil (BRA)	x	x	x	NM
	B	Fang Yaoqing	China (CHN)					DNS

Final

Results:^[8]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Round						Mark	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Pedro Pichardo	Portugal (POR)	17.95	17.92	17.57	–	x	17.51	17.95	WL
	Hugues Fabrice Zango	Burkina Faso (BUR)	17.55	16.95	17.38	17.14	x	17.49	17.55	SB
	Zhu Yaming	China (CHN)	17.00	17.31	x	16.98	x	16.85	17.31	SB
4	Andrea Dallavalle	Italy (ITA)	17.25	17.16	–	17.12	x	x	17.25
5	Emmanuel Ihemeje	Italy (ITA)	x	17.03	16.69	16.81	16.71	17.17	17.17
6	Donald Scott	United States (USA)	17.14	x	16.79	16.98	17.04	16.94	17.14
7	Almir dos Santos	Brazil (BRA)	x	16.69	16.87	x	16.38	13.26	16.87
8	Jean-Marc Pontvianne	France (FRA)	x	x	16.86	x	x	x	16.86
9	Eldhose Paul	India (IND)	16.37	16.79	13.86				16.79
10	Tiago Pereira	Portugal (POR)	x	16.69	16.59				16.69
11	Will Claye	United States (USA)	x	x	16.54				16.54
	Lázaro Martínez	Cuba (CUB)	x	x	x				NM

References

1. Timetable
2. "Triple jumper Taylor set to miss Tokyo". BBC Sport.
3. "Triple Jump Men − Records". IAAF. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
4. "Competitions Entry Standards 2022 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022" (PDF). iaaf.org. 9 July 2022.
5. Qualification Start List
6. SUMMARY Triple Jump Men - Qualification
7. Triple Jump Men - Qualification Results
8. RESULTS Triple Jump Men - Final