| Olympic Games/World Champs | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| 2021 Men Triple Jump | Pedro Pichardo |  POR | 17.95m | Hugues Fabrice Zango |  BUR | 17.55m | Zhu Yaming |  CHN | 17.31m |
| Olympic 2020 Men Triple Jump | |||||||||
| 2019 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor |  USA | 17.92m | Will Claye | USA | 17.74m | Hugues Fabrice Zango | BUR | 17.66m |
| 2017 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor | USA | USA | Will Claye | USA | USA | Nelson Évora | POR | POR |
| Olympic 2016 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor | USA | USA | Will Claye | USA | USA | Bin Dong | CHN | CHN |
| 2015 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor | USA | USA | Pedro Pablo Pichardo |  CUB | CUB | Nelson Évora | POR | POR |
| 2013 Men Triple Jump | Teddy Tamgho |  FRA | FRA | Pedro Pablo Pichardo | CUB | CUB | Will Claye | USA | USA |
| Olympic 2012 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor | USA | USA | Will Claye | USA | USA | Fabrizio Donato |  ITA | ITA |
| 2011 Men Triple Jump | Christian Taylor | USA | USA | Phillips Idowu |  GBR | GBR | Will Claye | USA | USA |
| 2009 Men Triple Jump | Phillips Idowu | GBR | GBR | Nelson Évora | POR | POR | Alexis Copello | CUB | |
| Olympic 2008 Men Triple Jump | Nelson Evora | POR | POR | Phillips Idowu | GBR | GBR | Leevan Sands | BAH | |
| 2007 Men Triple Jump | Nelson Evora | POR | POR | Jadel Gregerio | BRA | Walter Davis | USA | USA | |
| 2005 Men Triple Jump | Walter Davis | USA | USA | Yoandri Betanzos | CUB | Marian Oprea | ROM | ||
| Olympic 2004 Men Triple Jump | Christian Olsson |  SWE | SWE | Marian Oprea | ROM | Danila Burkenya |  RUS | RUS | |
| 2003 Men Triple Jump | Christian Olsson | SWE | SWE | Yoandri Betanzos | CUB | Leevan Sands | BAH | ||
| 2001 Men Triple Jump | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR | Christian Olsson | SWE | SWE | Igor Spasovkhodskiy | RUS | RUS |
| Olympic 2000 Men Triple Jump | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR | Yoel Garcia | CUB | Denis Kapustin | RUS | RUS | |
| 1999 Men Triple Jump | Charles Michael Friedek |  GER | GER | Rostislav Dimitrov |  BUL | BUL | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR |
| 1997 Men Triple Jump | Yoelbi Quesada | CUB | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR | Aliecer Urrutia | CUB | ||
| Olympic 1996 Men Triple Jump | Kenny Harrison | USA | USA | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR | Yoelbi Quesada | CUB | |
| 1995 Men Triple Jump | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR | Brian Wellman | BER | Jerome Romain | DMN | ||
| 1993 Men Triple Jump | Mike Conley | USA | USA | Leonid Voloshin | RUS | RUS | Jonathan Edwards | GBR | GBR |
| Olympic 1992 Men Triple Jump | Mike Conley | USA | USA | Charlie Simpkins | USA | USA | Frank Rutherford | BAH | |
| 1991 Men Triple Jump | Kenny Harrison | USA | USA | Leonid Voloshin |  URS | URS | Mike Conley | USA | USA |
| Olympic 1988 Men Triple Jump | Khristo Markov | BUL | BUL | Igor Lapchine | URS | URS | Alexandre Kovalenko | URS | URS |
| 1987 Men Triple Jump | Khristo Markov | BUL | BUL | Mike Conley | USA | USA | Oleg Sakirkin | URS | URS |
| Olympic 1984 Men Triple Jump | Al Joyner | USA | USA | Mike Conley | USA | USA | Keith Connor | GBR | GBR |
| 1983 Men Triple Jump | Zdzislaw Hoffmann |  POL | POL | Willie Banks | USA | USA | Ajayi Agbebaku | NGR | |
| Olympic 1980 Men Triple Jump | Yaak Uudmae | URS | URS | Victor Saneev | URS | URS | Joao C.de Oliveira | BRA | |
| Olympic 1976 Men Triple Jump | Victor Saneev | URS | URS | James Butts | USA | USA | Joao C.de Oliviera | BRA | |
| Olympic 1972 Men Triple Jump | Victor Saneev | URS | URS | Jorg Drehmel |  GDR | GDR | Nelson Prudencio | BRA | |
| Olympic 1968 Men Triple Jump | Viktor Saneyev | URS | URS | Nelson Prudencio | BRA | Giuseppe Gentile | ITA | ITA | |
| Olympic 1964 Men Triple Jump | Jozef Schmidt | POL | POL | Oleg Fedoseyev | URS | URS | Viktor Kravchenko | URS | URS |
| Olympic 1960 Men Triple Jump | Jozef Schmidt | POL | POL | Vladimir Goryayev | URS | URS | Vitold Kreyer | URS | URS |
| Olympic 1956 Men Triple Jump | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva | BRA | Vilhjalmur Einarsson |  ISL | ISL | Vitold Kreyer | URS | URS | |
| Olympic 1952 Men Triple Jump | Adhemar Ferreira da Silva | BRA | Leonid Scherbakov | URS | URS | Arnoldo Devonish | VEN | ||
| Olympic 1948 Men Triple Jump | Arne AAhman | SWE | SWE | George Avery |  AUS | AUS | Ruhi Sarialp |  TUR | TUR |
| Olympic 1936 Men Triple Jump | Naoto Tajima |  JPN | JPN | Masao Harada | JPN | JPN | John Metcalfe | AUS | AUS |
| Olympic 1932 Men Triple Jump | Chuhei Nambu | JPN | JPN | Eric Svensson | SWE | SWE | Kenkichi Oshima | JPN | JPN |
| Olympic 1928 Men Triple Jump | Mikio Oda | JPN | JPN | Levi Casey | USA | USA | Vilho Tuulos |  FIN | FIN |
| Olympic 1924 Men Triple Jump | Archibald Winter | AUS | AUS | Luis Brunetto | ARG | Vilho Tuulos | FIN | FIN | |
| Olympic 1920 Men Triple Jump | Vilho Tuulos | FIN | FIN | Folke Jansson | SWE | SWE | Erik Almlof | SWE | SWE |
| Olympic 1912 Men Triple Jump | Gustaf Lindblom | SWE | SWE | Georg AAberg | SWE | SWE | Erik Almlof | SWE | SWE |
| Olympic 1908 Men Triple Jump | Timothy Ahearne | GBR | GBR | Garfield McDonald |  CAN | CAN | Edvard Larsen |  NOR | NOR |
| Olympic 1904 Men Triple Jump | Myer Prinstein | USA | USA | Frederick Engelhardt | USA | USA | Robert Stangland | USA | USA |
| Olympic 1900 Men Triple Jump | Myer Prinstein | USA | USA | James Connolly | USA | USA | Lewis Sheldon | USA | USA |
| Olympic 1896 Men Triple Jump | James Connolly | USA | USA | Alexandre Tufferi | FRA | FRA | Ioannis Persakis |  GRE | GRE |
