Men Triple Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome, Italy 1987 - Monday, 31st August

Men Triple Jump Athletics II World Championship Rome, Italy 1987 - Monday, 31st August - Gold Medal: Khristo Markov, Bulgaria

Final		Distance	wind	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	17.92m	+1.6	17.70w	17.73	X	17.92	X	X
2. Mike Conley	United States	17.67m	-1.0	17.34w	17.37	X	17.65	X	17.67
3. Oleg Sakirkin	Soviet Union	17.43m	+1.4	17.03	17.36	17.31w	X	17.29	17.43
4. Aleksandr Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.38m	-1.0	17.38	X	X	X	16.81w	16.99
5. Jacek Pastusinski	Poland	17.35m	+1.7	17.27	17.20	17.13	17.28	17.35	17.26
6. Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	17.29m	+3.9	17.29w	X	17.08	16.82	16.96	X
7. Peter Bouschen	West Germany	17.26m	+3.6	X	17.26w	X	17.0-8	16.73	16.72
8. Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	17.23m	+3.9	X	X	17.23w	X	X	16.30
9. Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.79m	+1.9
10.Ivan Slanar	Czechoslovakia	16.69m	+0.9
11.Dario Badinelli	Italy	16.63m	+0.5
12.Zdzislaw Hoffmann	Poland	16.58m	+1.9
-. Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	NM

History Men Triple Jump.

Once again the United States were thwarted by Eastern Europe. Surprisingly, world record holder Willie Banks and his compatriot Charlie Simpkins did not make the final. World Indoor Champion Conley did, and drew the favourable final spot in the jumping order.
But before Conley could take his first jump, European Champion Markov went out to 17.70w. In round two, the Bulgarian improved to 17.73. Kovalenko was a distant second at 17.38, with Conley one centimetre behind. In the fifth round, the mop-haired Markov powered down the runway and hit the board 4cm from the plasticine before leaping out to a legal 17.92, the second longest jump ever. Conley and Sakirkin both overtook Kovalenko for the other medals. The three components of the winning jump were measured at 6.50, 5.30 and 6.12.

Qualification - Sunday 30th August

Mark 16.85m 3 athletes passed the mark. Next 7 also advanced to Final.

Group A		Distance	wind
1. Oleg Sakirkin	Soviet Union	17.35m	-0.1
2. Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	17.08m	+2.0
3. Mike Conley	United States	17.06m	+1.5
4. Zdzislaw Hoffmann	Poland	16.73m	+1.1
5. Dario Badinelli	Italy	16.64m	+0.3
6. Ivan Slanar	Czechoslovakia	16.57m	+1.3
7. Norifumi Yamashita	Japan	16.57m	+0.5
8. Didier Falise	Belgium	16.51m	+1.1
9. Jose Leitao	Portugal	16.17m	+1.2
10.Frank Rutherford	Bahamas	15.99m	+0.8
11.Francisco Dos Santos	Brazil	15.85m	-0.7
12.Arne Holm	Sweden	15.76m	-0.5
13.Jose Salazar	Venezuela	15.76m	+0.5
14.Ajayi Agbebaku	Nigeria	15.66m	-0.8
15.Toussaint Rabenala	Madagascar	15.53m	+0.2
16.Paulo Franco Noronha	Mozambique	14.62m	+0.5

Group B		Distance	wind
1. Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	17.20m	+1.1
2. Aleksandr Kovalenko	Soviet Union	17.16m	+0.2
3. Peter Bouschen	West Germany	17.01m	-0.2
4. Jacek Pastusinski	Poland	17.00m	-0.6
5. Norbert Elliott	Bahamas	16.65m	+0.4
6. Joseph Taiwo	Nigeria	16.63m	+0.4
7. Georgi Pomashki	Bulgaria	16.49m	+1.3
8. Francis Dodoo	Ghana	16.48m	+0.5
9. Serge Helan	France	16.41m	+0.5
10.Charles Simpkins	United States	16.40m	+0.7
11.Willie Banks	United States	16.37m	+0.7
12.Djordje Kozul	Yugoslavia	16.37m	-0.5
13.Edrick Floreal	Canada	16.33m	-0.1
14.Edward Cruden	Surinam	15.32m	-0.5
15.Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	14.78m	+0.6
-. Mohamed Zaki Sadri	Malaysia	NM