# 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 8–9.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Yoel García Cuba | Aliecer Urrutia Cuba | Aleksandr Aseledchenko Russia |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: 16.80 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) qualified for the final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Aliecer Urrutia | Cuba | 17.45 | | | 17.45 | Q |
| 2 | A | Charles Friedek | Germany | 17.02 | | | 17.02 | Q |
| 3 | A | Yoel García | Cuba | 17.01 | | | 17.01 | Q |
| 4 | A | Sigurd Njerve | Norway | 16.92 | | | 16.92 | Q |
| 5 | A | Tibor Ordina | Hungary | 15.43 | 16.86 | | 16.86 | Q, PB |
| 6 | B | Andrew Murphy | Australia | x | 16.69 | 16.83 | 16.83 | Q |
| 7 | A | Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa | Zimbabwe | 16.26 | 16.55 | 16.82 | 16.82 | Q |
| 8 | B | Rogel Nachum | Israel | 16.82 | | | 16.82 | Q, SB |
| 9 | A | Aleksandr Aseledchenko | Russia | 16.75 | 16.64 | 16.24 | 16.75 | q |
| 10 | A | Georges Sainte-Rose | France | 16.56 | 16.74 | 16.32 | 16.74 | q |
| 11 | B | Jérôme Romain | Dominica | 16.45 | 16.57 | 16.72 | 16.72 | q |
| 12 | B | Gennadiy Glushenko | Ukraine | 16.37 | 15.98 | 16.71 | 16.71 | q |
| 13 | B | Zsolt Czingler | Hungary | 16.11 | 16.27 | 16.69 | 16.69 | |
| 14 | A | LaMark Carter | United States | 16.67 | 16.60 | 16.59 | 16.67 | |
| 15 | B | Gennadiy Markov | Russia | 16.65 | x | 16.31 | 16.65 | |
| 16 | B | Serge Hélan | France | 16.49 | 16.58 | 16.51 | 16.58 | |
| 17 | A | Sergey Izmaylov | Ukraine | 15.93 | 16.44 | 16.02 | 16.44 | |
| 18 | A | Ionel Eftemie | Romania | 16.21 | 16.24 | 16.39 | 16.39 | |
| 19 | B | Salem Al-Ahmedi | Saudi Arabia | 15.95 | 16.30 | 15.81 | 16.30 | |
| 20 | B | Ivory Angello | United States | 16.26 | x | x | 16.26 | |
| 21 | A | Zeng Lizhi | China | x | 16.25 | 15.85 | 16.25 | |
| 22 | B | Anísio Silva | Brazil | 16.22 | x | 15.70 | 16.22 | |
| 23 | A | Messías José Baptista | Brazil | 16.09 | 16.21 | x | 16.21 | |
| 24 | A | Aleksey Fatyanov | Azerbaijan | 15.62 | 15.35 | 15.38 | 15.62 | |
| 25 | B | Brian Wellman | Bermuda | – | 15.61 | – | 15.61 | |
| | B | Carlos Calado | Portugal | x | – | – | DNF | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Yoel García | Cuba | 16.87 | 17.03 | 17.30 | 17.05 | 16.87 | – | 17.30 | |
| | Aliecer Urrutia | Cuba | 16.93 | 17.27 | 17.08 | 17.11 | – | – | 17.27 | |
| | Aleksandr Aseledchenko | Russia | – | 17.22 | 16.82 | 16.71 | – | 17.22 | 17.22 | PB |
| 4 | Charles Friedek | Germany | 17.14 | 17.16 | – | – | 17.01 | 16.94 | 17.16 | SB |
| 5 | Andrew Murphy | Australia | 16.64 | 16.89 | 16.96 | 16.64 | 16.45 | 16.38 | 16.96 | |
| 6 | Rogel Nachum | Israel | 16.45 | 16.58 | 16.65 | 16.75 | 16.81 | 16.71 | 16.81 | |
| 7 | Sigurd Njerve | Norway | 15.48 | 16.81 | – | – | – | – | 16.81 | |
| 8 | Tibor Ordina | Hungary | 16.42 | 16.46 | 16.53 | 16.26 | 16.65 | 15.78 | 16.65 | |
| 9 | Jérôme Romain | Dominica | 16.52 | 16.33 | – | | | | 16.52 | |
| 10 | Georges Sainte-Rose | France | – | 16.41 | 16.22 | | | | 16.41 | |
| 11 | Gennadiy Glushenko | Ukraine | 16.20 | – | 16.41 | | | | 16.41 | |
| | Ndabazinhle Mdhlongwa | Zimbabwe | – | – | – | | | | NM | |