Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump
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Men's triple jump at the Games of the XXII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Central Lenin Stadium | |||||||||
Date | 23 July 1980 (qualifying) 24 July 1980 (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 23 from 19 nations | |||||||||
Winning distance | 17.35 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's triple jump event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union had an entry list of 23 competitors, with two qualifying groups (23 jumpers) before the final (12) took place on Friday, July 25, 1980. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The top twelve and ties, and all those reaching 16.55 metres advanced to the final. The qualification round was held on Thursday, July 24, 1980.[1]
The Soviet Union's Jaak Uudmäe and Viktor Saneyev won the first two places, ahead of Brazil's world record holder João Carlos de Oliveira. Both de Oliveira and Australia's Ian Campbell produced long jumps, but they were declared fouls by the officials and not measured; in Campbell's case, his longest jump was ruled a "scrape foul", with his trailing leg touching the track during the jump. Campbell insisted he hadn't scraped, and it was alleged the officials intentionally threw out his and de Oliveira's best jumps to favor the Soviets, similarly to a number of other events.
It was the fourth consecutive gold medal for the Soviet Union, and the eighth consecutive Games in which the Soviets made the podium. Saneyev became the first man to win four medals in the triple jump; de Oliveira was the tenth man to win two.