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

Men's triple jump at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Date	July 23
Competitors	35 from 23 nations
Medalists
Adhemar da Silva   Brazil   Leonid Shcherbakov   Soviet Union   Arnoldo Devonish   Venezuela

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The Men's triple jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 23 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium.Brazilian athlete Adhemar da Silva won the gold medal.

Records

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

World record	Adhemar Ferreira da Silva (BRA)	16.01 m	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	30 September 1951
Olympic record	Naoto Tajima (JPN)	16.00 m	Berlin, Germany	6 August 1936

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
23 July	Final	Adhemar da Silva (BRA)	16.22 m	OR	WR

Results

Qualifying round

Qualifying Performance 14.55 advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	Mark	Notes
1	A	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.32
2	A	Arnoldo Devonish	Venezuela	15.24
3	B	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.05
4	A	Jim Gerhardt	United States	14.98
5	A	Reino Hiltunen	Finland	14.82
6	A	Yoshio Imuro	Japan	14.81
7	B	Arne Åhman	Sweden	14.72
8	B	Rune Nilsen	Norway	14.65
9	B	Zygfryd Weinberg	Poland	14.65
10	B	Geraldo de Oliveira	Portugal	14.64
11	A	Preben Larsen	Denmark	14.62
12	B	Tadashi Yamamoto	Japan	14.60
13	B	Rui Ramos	Portugal	14.59
=14	A	Walt Ashbaugh	United States	14.59
=14	B	Roger Norman	Sweden	14.59
16	A	Jacques Boulanger	France	14.49
17	B	José da Conceição	Brazil	14.46
18	A	Choi Yeong-Gi	South Korea	14.44
19	A	Malik M'Baye	France	14.39
20	A	Keizo Hasegawa	Japan	14.39
21	B	George Shaw	United States	14.39
22	B	Pentti Uusihauta	Finland	14.38
23	B	Valle Rautio	Finland	14.14
24	B	Rade Radovanović	Yugoslavia	14.13
25	A	William Laing	Gold Coast	14.09
26	B	Vasilios Sakellarakis	Greece	14.05
27	A	Eugénio Lopes	Portugal	14.05
28	A	Stanisław Kowal	Poland	14.03
29	A	Willi Burgard	Saar	13.86
30	A	Nikola Dagorov	Bulgaria	13.82
31	B	Felix Würth	Austria	13.65
32	A	Akin Altiok	Turkey	13.62
33	A	Walter Herssens	Belgium	13.52
34	A	Fawzi Chaaban	Egypt	13.45
35	A	Francisco Castro	Puerto Rico	13.37

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Adhemar da Silva	Brazil	15.95	16.12	15.54	16.09	16.22	16.05	16.22	WR
	Leonid Shcherbakov	Soviet Union	15.07	15.26	15.18	15.98	15.84	x	15.98
	Arnoldo Devonish	Venezuela	15.04	15.52	–	x	x	x	15.52
4	Walt Ashbaugh	United States	15.05	15.39	14.56	14.50	15.38	x	15.39
5	Rune Nilsen	Norway	15.13	14.21	x	14.70	x	x	15.13
6	Yoshio Imuro	Japan	14.99	x	x	x	14.66	13.70	14.99
7	Geraldo de Oliveira	Brazil	x	14.95	12.66				14.95
8	Roger Norman	Sweden	14.89	x	12.66				14.89
9	Reino Hiltunen	Finland	14.85	x	14.40				14.85
10	Zygfryd Weinberg	Poland	14.76	x	x				14.76
11	Jim Gerhardt	United States	14.69	14.28	14.06				14.69
12	Rui Ramos	Portugal	14.69	13.82	12.15				14.69
13	Preben Larsen	Denmark	14.62	x	14.19				14.62
14	Tadashi Yamamoto	Japan	x	x	14.57				14.57
15	Arne Åhman	Sweden	x	x	14.05				14.05

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84.org.
• International Association of Athletics Federations: Brazil's Two-Time Olympic Champion Adhemar Ferreira da Silva Passes Away