# 1990 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

The Men's Triple Jump event at the 1990 European Championships in Split, Yugoslavia was held at Stadion Poljud on 30 and 31 August 1990. There were a total number of nineteen participating athletes.

## Medalists

| Gold | Leonid Voloshin Soviet Union (URS) |
| Silver | Khristo Markov Bulgaria (BUL) |
| Bronze | Igor Lapshin Soviet Union (URS) |

## 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 1990 European Athletics Championships :
| World Record | Willie Banks (USA) | 17.97 m | June 16, 1985 | Indianapolis, United States |
| Event Record | Khristo Markov (BUL) | 17.66 m | August 30, 1986 | Stuttgart, West Germany |
| Broken records during the 1990 European Athletics Championships |||||
| Event Record | Leonid Voloshin (URS) | 17.74 m | August 31, 1990 | Split, Yugoslavia |

## Results
### Final

31 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Result | Notes |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Notes |
| | Leonid Voloshin | Soviet Union | | | | | | | 17.74 (w: 0.8 m/s) | CR |
| | Khristo Markov | Bulgaria | | | | | | | 17.43 (w: 1.1 m/s) | |
| | Igor Lapshin | Soviet Union | | | | | | | 17.34 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |
| 4 | Jörg Frieß | East Germany | | | | | | | 17.01 (w: 0.0 m/s) | |
| 5 | Volker Mai | East Germany | | | | | | | 16.88 (w: -0.2 m/s) | |
| 6 | Andrzej Grabarczyk | Poland | | | | | | | 16.82 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |
| 7 | Georges Sainte-Rose | France | | | | | | | 16.81 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |
| 8 | Oleg Protsenko | Soviet Union | | | | | | | 16.80 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |
| 9 | John Herbert | United Kingdom | | | | | | | 16.73 (w: -1.0 m/s) | |
| 10 | Marios Hadjiandreou | Cyprus | | | | | | | 16.63 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |
| 11 | Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk | Poland | | | | | | | 16.60 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |
| 12 | Ralf Jaros | West Germany | | | | | | | 16.24 (w: 1.6 m/s) | |

### Qualification

30 August Qualification distance: 16.90 (Q) or 12 best (q) qualified for the final

#### Group A

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Oleg Protsenko | Soviet Union | 17.41 (w: 1.6 m/s) | Q |
| 2 | Igor Lapshin | Soviet Union | 17.11 (w: 1.6 m/s) | Q |
| 3 | Georges Sainte-Rose | France | 16.88 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q |
| 4 | Volker Mai | East Germany | 16.88 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q |
| 5 | John Herbert | United Kingdom | 16.79 (w: 0.7 m/s) | q |
| 6 | Ralf Jaros | West Germany | 16.75 (w: 1.2 m/s) | q |
| 7 | Andrzej Grabarczyk | Poland | 16.61 (w: 1 m/s) | q |
| 8 | Zoran Đurđević | Yugoslavia | 16.45 (w: 1.2 m/s) | |
| 9 | Claes Rahm | Sweden | 15.98 (w: 1.3 m/s) | |

#### Group B

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Leonid Voloshin | Soviet Union | 17.59 (w: 0.9 m/s) | Q |
| 2 | Khristo Markov | Bulgaria | 16.96 (w: 1.0 m/s) | Q |
| 3 | Jörg Frieß | East Germany | 16.86 (w: 0.4 m/s) | q |
| 4 | Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk | Poland | 16.79 (w: 1.3 m/s) | q |
| 5 | Marios Hadjiandreou | Cyprus | 16.75 (w: 1.5 m/s) | q |
| 6 | Didier Falise | Belgium | 16.32 (w: 1 m/s) | |
| 7 | Pierre Camara | France | 16.18 (w: 0.7 m/s) | |
| 8 | Rogel Nachum | Israel | 16.01 (w: 1.5 m/s) | |
| 9 | Tord Henriksson | Sweden | 16.00 (w: 0.9 m/s) | |
| | Serge Hélan | France | NM | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.
* Belgium (1)
* Bulgaria (1)
* Cyprus (1)
* East Germany (2)
* France (3)
* Israel (1)
* Poland (2)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Sweden (2)
* United Kingdom (1)
* West Germany (1)
* Yugoslavia (1)