2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

2002 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The Men's triple jump event at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 6 and August 8.

Gold	Christian Olsson Sweden (SWE)
Silver	Charles Friedek Germany (GER)
Bronze	Jonathan Edwards Great Britain (GBR)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 2002 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	August 7, 1995	Gothenburg, Sweden
Event Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.99 m	August 23, 1998	Budapest, Hungary

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 16.80 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	Result	Notes
1	A	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain				17.54	Q
2	B	Christian Olsson	Sweden				17.01	Q
3	A	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain				16.99	Q
4	A	Fabrizio Donato	Italy				16.80	Q
5	A	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus				16.78	q
6	B	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria				16.77	q
7	B	Charles Friedek	Germany				16.77	q
8	B	Aleksey Musikhin	Russia				16.64	q
9	A	Konstadinos Zalagitis	Greece				16.57	q
10	B	Julien Kapek	France				16.53	q
11	A	Mykola Savolaynen	Ukraine				16.50	q
12	B	Tosin Oke	Great Britain				16.48	q
13	B	Michael Velter	Belgium				16.47
14	B	Marian Oprea	Romania				16.47
15	A	Lauri Leis	Estonia				16.37
16	A	Igor Spasovkhodskiy	Russia				16.28
17	B	Arvydas Nazarovas	Lithuania				16.17
18	A	Vladimir Letnicov	Moldova				16.09
19	B	Jacek Kazimierowski	Poland				15.94
20	B	Avi Tayari	Israel				15.94
21	A	Boštjan Šimunič	Slovenia				15.64
22	A	Hristos Meletoglou	Greece				15.24
	A	Ionut Punga	Romania	x	x	x	NM
	B	Stamatis Lenis	Greece	x	x	x	NM

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Christian Olsson	Sweden	17.16	17.44	17.42	17.43	17.53	-	17.53
	Charles Friedek	Germany	x	17.33	x	x	x	x	17.33
	Jonathan Edwards	Great Britain	17.12	17.32	17.11	x	17.11	x	17.32
4	Fabrizio Donato	Italy	x	17.15	x	x	x	x	17.15
5	Phillips Idowu	Great Britain	x	15.29	16.92	16.85	x	15.62	16.92
6	Aleksandr Glavatskiy	Belarus	16.37	x	16.86	x	x	x	16.86
7	Julien Kapek	France	15.92	16.66	16.57	x	x	16.31	16.66
8	Konstadinos Zalagitis	Greece	16.62	16.46	x	x	x	15.30	16.62
9	Rostislav Dimitrov	Bulgaria	x	16.16	16.57				16.57
10	Mykola Savolaynen	Ukraine	16.55	x	16.39				16.55
11	Aleksey Musikhin	Russia	16.47	16.09	16.45				16.47
	Tosin Oke	Great Britain	x	x	x				NM

• Results
• Results Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine