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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.
Long jump details: Lutz Dombrowski East Germany: 8.54 m Frank Paschek East Germany: 8.21 m Valeriy Pidluzhny Soviet Union: 8.18 m Triple jump details: Jaak Uudmäe Soviet Union: 17.35 m Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union: 17.24 m João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil: 17.22 m Shot put details: Vladimir Kiselyov Soviet Union: 21.35 m OR: Aleksandr Baryshnikov
Long jump details: Lutz Dombrowski East Germany: 8.54 m Frank Paschek East Germany: 8.21 m Valeriy Pidluzhny Soviet Union: 8.18 m Triple jump details: Jaak Uudmäe Soviet Union: 17.35 m Viktor Saneyev Soviet Union: 17.24 m João Carlos de Oliveira Brazil: 17.22 m Shot put details: Vladimir Kiselyov Soviet Union: 21.35 m OR: Aleksandr Baryshnikov
Campbell represented Australia in the triple jump at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. There he finished in fifth place, with a leap of 16.72 metres (54 ft 10 in). In the final, Campbell, missed a likely gold medal after his fourth jump was fouled; this decision has been disputed since.
However, there is no evidence for the triple jump being included in the ancient Olympic Games, and the recorded extraordinary distances may be due to the artistic license of the authors of victory poems, rather than attempts to report accurate results. [3] The triple jump was a part of the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, although ...
In 1978 he set a new Canadian record in triple jump at the Commonwealth Games with a jump of 16.24 metres; this record stood for eight years until it was broken by George Wright in 1987. In 1980, he was named to the Canadian Olympic Team for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow , Russia. [ 1 ]
In the 1980 Olympic women's long jump competition, Soviet jumper Tatiana Kolpakova bested her compatriots and other competitors by setting a new Olympic record of 7.06 metres (23 ft 2 in). Poland's Władysław Kozakiewicz won the pole vault with a jump of 5.78 metres (19 ft 0 in) – only the second pole vaulting world record to be established ...
The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first ...