Men Triple Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Monday 26.08 - Gold Medal: Kenny Harrison, United States

Men Triple Jump Athletics III World Championship 1991 Tokyo (JPN) - Monday 26.08 - Gold Medal: Kenny Harrison, United States

Final 16:40		Distance	wind	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Kenny Harrison	USA	17.78m	-0.8	X	17.78	17.41	17.59	X	17.53
2. Leonid Voloshin	URS	17.75m	+1.0	X	17.59	17.75	17.53	X	X
3. Mike Conley	USA	17.62m	+0.4	X	17.62	X	15.38	X	17.61
4. Vasiliy Sokov	URS	17.28m	-0.4	17.22	17.28	X	16.92	16.07	X
5. Tord Henriksson	SWE	17.12m	+0.5	17.12	X	X	X	16.14	X
6. Brian Wellman	BER	16.98m	-0.5	16.98	16.57	16.09	16.46	X	16.40
7. Yoelbi Quesada	CUB	16.94m	-0.4	16.75	16.78	16.94	15.40	16.40	X
8. Georges Sainte-Rose	FRA	16.92m	-0.3	16.92	X	16.52	X	X	16.21
9. Ralf Jaros	GER	16.76m	-2.1
10.Oleg Denishchik	URS	16.61m	-0.2
11.Norifumi Yamashita	JPN	16.26m	-0.4
12.Andrzej Grabarczyk	POL	16.23m	-0.2

Men Triple Jump History

Kenny Harrison went one better than Willie Banks in 1983 by winning over the crowd and taking the gold medal. The enthusiastic crowd needed little encouragement and clapped every move of the jumpers. Harrison, drawn seventh in the final, managed to attract a little extra support and opened his account in the final with a foul close to 18 metres. In the second round, he got it right with 17.78 into a headwind. Harrison further delighted the crowd by performing a back-flip when the distance was announced.
This proved to be good enough for victory, although Voloshin got close with 17.75 at the start of the third round. The Soviet jumper was lucky: not only did he enjoy a following wind of 1.0, he also came perilously close to marking the plasticine. The bronze medal went to Conley, drawn to jump last as in Rome.

Qualification - Sunday 25.08 17:00

Mark 16.95m - 8 + 4 athletes qualified.

Group A		Dist.	wind
1. Vasiliy Sokov	URS	17.16m	+0.5
2. Yoelbi Quesada	CUB	17.13m	+1.4
3. Kenny Harrison	USA	17.08m	+1.6
4. Georges Sainte-Rose	FRA	17.07m	+1.1
5. Brian Wellman	BER	17.02m	-0.3
6. Oleg Denishchik	URS	16.92m	-0.2
7. Andrzej Grabarczyk	POL	16.88m	+0.9
8. John Herbert	GBR	16.79m	+0.4
9. Khristo Markov	BUL	16.67m	+0.4
10.Jan Cado	TCH	16.58m	0.0
11.Lotfi Khaida	ALG	16.54m	+1.3
12.Sixin Zou	CHN	16.35m	+0.6
13.Marios Hadjiandreou	CYP	16.04m	+0.9
14.Santiago Moreno	ESP	16.04mw	+2.3
15.93 +0.6
15.Paul Nioze	SEY	15.72m	+0.8
16.Lucian Sfiea	ROM	15.27m	-0.4
17.Francois Reteno	GAB	14.43m	-0.7
-. Eugene Koranteng	GHA	NM
-. Khalid Ahmed Mousa	SUD	DNS

Group B		Dist.	wind
1. Leonid Voloshin	URS	17.29m	+0.2
2. Tord Henriksson	SWE	17.07m	+0.6
3. Mike Conley	USA	16.98m	+0.8
4. Norifumi Yamashita	JPN	16.88m	+0.5
5. Ralf Jaros	GER	16.88m	+0.2
6. Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk	POL	16.76m	+2.0
7. Frank Rutherford	BAH	16.74m	+0.3
8. Yanping Chen	CHN	16.70m
9. Edrick Floreal	CAN	16.68m	+0.9
10.Serge Helan	FRA	16.51m	-0.2
11.Pierre Camara	FRA	16.49m	-0.8
12.Don Parish	USA	16.45m	+0.3
13.Galin Georgiev	BUL	16.18m	+0.5
14.Anisio Sousa Silva	BRA	16.18m	+1.2
15.Rogel Nachum	ISR	15.90m	+0.9
16.Toussaint Rabenala	MAD	15.82m	-0.6
17.Benjamin Koech	KEN	15.74m
18.Jerome Romain	DOM	15.49m	+1.0
19.Lindford Castillo	BIZ	13.93m	+0.6