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Jonathan David Edwards, CBE (born 10 May 1966) is a British former triple jumper. He is an Olympic , double World , European , European indoor and Commonwealth champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995.
Video on YouTube Official video. These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden.There were a total number of 44 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 7, 1995.
Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 18.29 m [2] [3] Gothenburg, Sweden: 7 August 1995 European record: Championship record Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 17.99 m: Budapest, Hungary: 23 August 1998 World Leading Jaydon Hibbert (JAM) 17.75 m [4] Kingston, Jamaica: 1 June 2024 Europe Leading Andy Díaz Hernández (ITA) 17.61 m [5] Toruń, Poland: 6 February 2024
The event was won by Kenny Harrison of the United States, the nation's second consecutive and sixth overall victory in the men's triple jump. Jonathan Edwards's silver was Great Britain's first medal in the event since 1984; Yoelbi Quesada's bronze was Cuba's first men's triple jump medal ever.
The British triple jump athletics champions covers three competitions; the current British Athletics Championships which was founded in 2007, [1] the preceding AAA Championships (1914-2006) and the UK Athletics Championships which existed from 1977 until 1997 and ran concurrently with the AAA Championships.
International University Sports Federation – Gwangju 2015 – Men's Triple Jump Final, Dmitry Sorokin (RUS 17.29) wins gold. The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps".
All medalists from those championships made it into the finals. In addition to world record holder Jonathan Edwards and Olympic champion Kenny Harrison, there were three more athletes who had jumped beyond 17.70m Edwards was the first to get over 17m in the first round with a 17.33m.
Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper) (born 1966), British triple jumper, world record holder and TV presenter; Jonathan Edwards (luger) (born 1972), American luger; Johnathan Edwards (born 1984), Welsh rugby union footballer; Jon Edwards (baseball) (born 1988), American Major League player; Jonathan Edwards (English footballer) (born 1996), English ...