| Event: | Men's triple jump |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The Men's Triple Jump event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia was held at Stadion Poljud on 30 and 31 August 1990. There were a total number of nineteen participating athletes.
| Gold | Leonid Voloshin Soviet Union (URS) | |
| Silver | Khristo Markov Bulgaria (BUL) | |
| Bronze | Igor Lapshin Soviet Union (URS) |
| Q | automatic qualification | |
| q | qualification by rank | |
| DNS | did not start | |
| NM | no mark | |
| WR | world record | |
| AR | area record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best |
| Standing records prior to the 1990 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.97 m | June 16, 1985 | ||||
| 17.66 m | August 30, 1986 | ||||
| Broken records during the 1990 European Athletics Championships | |||||
| 17.74 m | August 31, 1990 | ||||
31 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Attempts | Result | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.74 (w: 0.8 m/s) | CR | ||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.43 (w: 1.1 m/s) | |||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.34 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |||||||||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 17.01 (w: 0.0 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 16.88 (w: -0.2 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.82 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |||||||||
| 7 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.81 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 16.80 (w: 1.3 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 16.73 (w: -1.0 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 10 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.63 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |||||||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | | 16.60 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | 16.24 (w: 1.6 m/s) | ||||||||||
30 August
Qualification distance: 16.90 (Q) or 12 best (q) qualified for the final[1]
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 17.41 (w: 1.6 m/s) | Q | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 17.11 (w: 1.6 m/s) | Q | |||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | | 16.88 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q | ||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 16.88 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q | |||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 16.79 (w: 0.7 m/s) | q | |||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 16.75 (w: 1.2 m/s) | q | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | | 16.61 (w: 1 m/s) | q | ||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | 16.45 (w: 1.2 m/s) | ||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left |  | 15.98 (w: 1.3 m/s) |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 17.59 (w: 0.9 m/s) | Q | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 16.96 (w: 1.0 m/s) | Q | |||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 16.86 (w: 0.4 m/s) | q | |||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | | 16.79 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q | ||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | | 16.75 (w: 1.5 m/s) | q | ||
| 6 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.32 (w: 1 m/s) | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | | 16.18 (w: 0.7 m/s) | |||
| 8 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.01 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | | 16.00 (w: 0.9 m/s) | |||
| align=left | align=left | | NM |
According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.
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