1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

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1998 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
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
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
v t e

These are the official results of the Men's triple jump event at the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Sunday August 23, 1998. The top twelve and ties, and all those reaching 16.90 metres advanced to the final. The qualification round was held in Saturday August 22, 1998.

Gold	Jonathan Edwards Great Britain (GBR)
Silver	Denis Kapustin Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Rostislav Dimitrov Bulgaria (BUL)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	18.29 m	August 7, 1995	Gothenburg, Sweden
Event Record	Leonid Voloshin (URS)	17.74 m	August 31, 1990	Split, Yugoslavia
Broken records during the 1998 European Athletics Championships
Event Record	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.99 m	August 23, 1998	Budapest, Hungary

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Result	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Aleksandr Glavatskiy (BLR)				17.10 m
2	3	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)				16.97 m
3	5	Vasiliy Sokov (RUS)				16.82 m
4	8	Zoran Đurđević (SCG)				16.69 m
5	9	Zsolt Czingler (HUN)				16.69 m
6	11	Hrvoje Verzi (GER)				16.54 m
7	12	Johan Meriluoto (FIN)				16.50 m
8	13	Raúl Chapado (ESP)				16.49 m
9	14	Audrius Raizgys (LTU)				16.39 m
10	15	Yuriy Osipenko (UKR)				16.34 m
11	18	Avi Tayari (ISR)				16.26 m
12	23	Igor Gavrilenko (RUS)				16.12 m
13	24	Hristos Meletoglou (GRE)				16.10 m
14	25	Csaba Boros (ROM)				15.91 m
15	27	Nikolay Raev (BUL)				15.54 m
—	—	Eduardo Pérez (ESP)	X	X	X	NM

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Result	Note
			1	2	3
1	1	Charles Friedek (GER)				17.10 m
2	4	Rogel Nachum (ISR)				16.87 m
3	6	Denis Kapustin (RUS)				16.79 m
4	7	Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL)				16.78 m
5	10	Ketill Hanstveit (NOR)				16.55 m
6	16	Armen Martirosyan (ARM)				16.33 m
7	17	Julian Golley (GBR)				16.32 m
8	19	Paolo Camossi (ITA)				16.24 m
9	20	Colomba Fofana (FRA)				16.16 m
10	21	Larry Achike (GBR)				16.13 m
11	22	Jiří Kuntoš (CZE)				16.13 m
12	26	Vitaliy Kolpakov (UKR)				15.69 m
13	28	Stamatios Lenis (GRE)				15.42 m
14	29	Alen Topolovcan (SLO)				14.65 m
—	—	Galin Georgiev (BUL)	X	X	X	NM
—	—	Yago Lamela (ESP)				DNS

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Result	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Jonathan Edwards (GBR)	17.84	17.53	—	—	—	17.99	17.99 m	CR
	Denis Kapustin (RUS)	17.13	17.22	17.45	—	16.90	X	17.45 m
	Rostislav Dimitrov (BUL)	17.26	X	X	X	X	X	17.26 m
4	Aliaksandar Hlavatski (BLR)	16.56	17.22	16.93	X	16.77	X	17.22 m
5	Vasiliy Sokov (RUS)	X	17.16	16.48	16.77	X	16.15	17.16 m
6	Charles Friedek (GER)	X	16.94	16.92	X	17.04	16.98	17.04 m
7	Zsolt Czingler (HUN)	16.45	16.20	17.03	X	16.75	X	17.03 m
8	Rogel Nachum (ISR)	16.99	X	16.74	X	16.62	X	16.99 m
9	Johan Meriluoto (FIN)	16.73	16.84	15.58				16.84 m
10	Zoran Đurđević (SCG)	16.83	16.66	16.48				16.83 m
11	Hrvoje Verzi (GER)	X	16.62	16.67				16.67 m
12	Ketill Hanstveit (NOR)	16.43	16.53	16.58				16.58 m

• 1997 Men's World Championships Triple Jump (Athens)
• 1999 Men's World Championships Triple Jump (Seville)

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