# 1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

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.

## Medalists

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

## Abbreviations

* All results shown are in metres
| Q | automatic qualification |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

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 |

## Qualification
### Group A

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result | Note |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | Note |
| 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 | |

### Group B

| Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result | Note |
| Rank | Overall | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | Result | Note |
| 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 | |

## Final

| Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result | Note |
| Rank | Athlete | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Note |
| | 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 | |