Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump explained

Event:	Men's triple jump
Games:	1952 Summer
Venue:	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Date:	July 23
Competitors:	35
Nations:	23
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	16.22
Win Label:	Winning distance
Gold:	Adhemar da Silva
Goldnoc:	BRA
Silver:	Leonid Shcherbakov
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Asnoldo Devonish
Bronzenoc:	VEN
Prev:	1948
Next:	1956

The men's triple jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 23 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Thirty-five athletes from 23 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. Brazilian athlete Adhemar da Silva won the gold medal, breaking the world record twice.^[1] It was Brazil's first medal and first victory in the men's long jump. All three of the nations represented on the podium were relatively new to the event in the Olympics; Brazil had sent triple jumpers in 1948 (including da Silva), but the Soviet Union (Leonid Shcherbakov's silver) and Venezuela (Asnoldo Devonish's bronze) each won medals in their first appearance.

Background

This was the 12th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Returning finalists from the 1948 Games were gold medalist Arne Åhman of Sweden, fourth-place finisher Preben Larsen of Denmark, fifth-place finisher Geraldo de Oliveira of Brazil, sixth-place finisher Valle Rautio of Finland, and eighth-place finisher Adhemar da Silva of Brazil. The last of these, da Silva, had been very successful in the intervening four years; he tied the world record in 1950 and broke it in 1951, as well as winning the Pan American championship. He was "co-favorite" with European champion Leonid Shcherbakov of the Soviet Union.^[2]

Belgium, Egypt, Ghana, Puerto Rico, Saar, the Soviet Union, and Venezuela each made their first appearance in the event. The United States competed for the 12th time, having competed at each of the Games so far.

Competition format

The competition used the two-round format introduced in 1936. In the qualifying round, each jumper received three attempts to reach the qualifying distance of 14.55 metres; if fewer than 12 men did so, the top 12 (including all those tied) would advance. In the final round, each athlete had three jumps; the top six received an additional three jumps, with the best of the six to count.^[2] ^[3]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Adhemar da Silva jumped further than his own world record four times: 16.12 in the second jump in the final round, 16.09 in the fourth, 16.22 in the fifth, and 16.05 in the sixth.

Schedule

All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

Results

Qualifying

Those achieving the qualifying performance of 14.55 metres advanced to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Distance!	Notes
1	A	Adhemar da Silva		15.32	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	15.32
2	A	Asnoldo Devonish		14.22	15.24	data-sort-value=1.00	—	15.24
3	B	Leonid Shcherbakov		15.05	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	15.05
4	A	Jim Gerhardt		14.98	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.98
5	A	Reino Hiltunen		data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.82	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.82
6	A	Yoshio Iimuro		14.81	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.81
7	B	Arne Åhman		13.23	14.72	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.72
8	B	Rune Nilsen		14.65	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.65
9	B	Zygfryd Weinberg		14.46	14.65	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.65
10	B	Geraldo de Oliveira		14.64	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.64
11	A	Preben Larsen		14.62	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.62
12	B	Tadashi Yamamoto		13.90	14.30	14.60	14.60
13	B	Rui Ramos		13.91	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.59	14.59
14	A	Walter Ashbaugh		14.59	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.59
14	B	Roger Norman		14.59	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	14.59
16	A	Jacques Boulanger		data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.37	14.49	14.49
17	B	José da Conceição		14.25	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.46	14.46
18	A	Choi Yeong-gi		12.11	14.38	14.44	14.44
19	A	Malik M'Baye		14.34	13.86	14.39	14.39
20	A	Keizo Hasegawa		data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.39	14.18	14.39
21	B	George Shaw		13.64	14.39	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.39
22	B	Pentti Uusihauta		data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.38	14.38
23	B	Valle Rautio		14.14	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.14
24	B	Rade Radovanović		13.42	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.13	14.13
25	A	William Laing		13.89	14.09	13.95	14.09
26	B	Vasilios Sakellarakis		14.05	13.73	13.68	14.05
27	A	Eugénio Lopes		13.67	14.05	13.55	14.05
28	A	Stanisław Kowal		14.03	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.03
29	A	Willi Burgard		13.47	data-sort-value=1.00	X	13.86	13.86
30	A	Nikola Dagorov		13.39	12.16	13.82	13.82
31	B	Felix Würth		13.65	data-sort-value=1.00	X	13.53	13.65
32	A	Akin Altiok		13.14	12.98	13.62	13.62
33	A	Walter Herssens		13.52	13.03	13.11	13.52
34	A	Fawzi Chaaban		12.85	data-sort-value=1.00	X	13.45	13.45
35	A	Francisco Castro		13.35	13.27	13.37	13.37
—	A	Vladimir Filippov
B	Mikhail Mikhail
B
B
B
B	Oscar Simón

Final

Devonish was injured and did not jump after the second round.

Rank	Athlete	1	2	3	4	5	6	Distance	Notes
	Adhemar da Silva	15.95	16.12	15.54	16.09	16.22	16.05	16.22
	Leonid Shcherbakov	15.07	15.26	15.18	15.98	15.84	data-sort-value=1.00	X	15.98
	Asnoldo Devonish	15.04	15.52	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	data-sort-value=1.00	—	15.52
4	Walter Ashbaugh	15.05	15.39	14.56	14.50	15.38	data-sort-value=1.00	X	15.39
5	Rune Nilsen	15.13	14.21	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.70	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	15.13
6	Yoshio Iimuro	14.99	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.66	13.70	14.99
7	Geraldo de Oliveira	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.95	12.66	Did not advance	14.95
8	Roger Norman	14.89	data-sort-value=1.00	X	12.66	Did not advance	14.89
9	Reino Hiltunen	14.85	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.40	Did not advance	14.85
10	Zygfryd Weinberg	14.76	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	Did not advance	14.76
11	Jim Gerhardt	14.69	14.28	14.06	Did not advance	14.69
12	Rui Ramos	14.69	13.82	12.15	Did not advance	14.69
13	Preben Larsen	14.62	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.19	Did not advance	14.62
14	Tadashi Yamamoto	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.57	Did not advance	14.57
15	Arne Åhman	data-sort-value=1.00	X	data-sort-value=1.00	X	14.05	Did not advance	14.05

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Athletics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174819/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1952/ATH/mens-triple-jump.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 22 December 2017 . sports-reference.com.
Web site: Triple Jump, Men . Olympedia . 8 September 2020.
Official Report, pp. 314–14.