# 2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

The Men's triple jump event at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on September 2 and 4.
Seven made the automatic qualifying mark. The eventual winner was not one of them, barely qualifying with the 9th best mark.
Favorite Phillips Idowu led through the first three rounds as Will Claye failed to make a legal jump through the first two rounds, waited until his third jump to jump 17.50, to not only qualify for his final three jumps but to move into second place. In the fourth round, unheralded American collegian Christian Taylor popped 17.96, the number ten all time jump to blast into the lead. Idowu jumped 17.77 in his fourth attempt but was unable to improve upon that.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Christian Taylor United States (USA) | Phillips Idowu Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | Will Claye United States (USA) |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the established records were as follows.
| World record | Jonathan Edwards (GBR) | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 |
| Championship record | Jonathan Edwards (GBR) | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 |
| World leading | Teddy Tamgho (FRA) | 17.91 | Lausanne, Switzerland | 30 June 2011 |
| African record | Tarik Bouguetaïb (MAR) | 17.37 | Khemisset, Morocco | 14 July 2007 |
| Asian record | Li Yanxi (CHN) | 17.59 | Jinan, China | 26 October 2009 |
| North, Central American and Caribbean record | Kenny Harrison (USA) | 18.09 | Atlanta, United States | 27 July 1996 |
| South American record | Jadel Gregório (BRA) | 17.90 | Belém, Brazil | 20 May 2007 |
| European record | Jonathan Edwards (GBR) | 18.29 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 7 August 1995 |
| Oceanian record | Ken Lorraway (AUS) | 17.46 | London, United Kingdom | 7 August 1982 |

## Qualification standards

| A standard | B standard |
| 17.10 | 16.85 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| September 2, 2011 | 10:30 | Qualification |
| September 4, 2011 | 19:05 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 17.10 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Alexis Copello | Cuba (CUB) | 17.06 | 17.31 | | 17.31 | Q |
| 2 | B | Nelson Évora | Portugal (POR) | 17.05 | 17.20 | | 17.20 | Q |
| 3 | A | Will Claye | United States (USA) | x | 17.19 | | 17.19 | Q |
| 4 | A | Phillips Idowu | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 17.17 | | | 17.17 | Q |
| 5 | B | Christian Olsson | Sweden (SWE) | 16.55 | 17.16 | | 17.16 | Q |
| 6 | A | Leevan Sands | Bahamas (BAH) | 17.13 | | | 17.13 | Q, SB |
| 7 | A | Benjamin Compaoré | France (FRA) | 17.11 | | | 17.11 | Q |
| 8 | B | Yoandri Betanzos | Cuba (CUB) | 17.01 | 13.66 | - | 17.01 | q |
| 9 | A | Christian Taylor | United States (USA) | x | 16.99 | 16.81 | 16.99 | q |
| 10 | B | Fabrizio Donato | Italy (ITA) | 16.55 | 16.70 | 16.88 | 16.88 | q |
| 11 | B | Henry Frayne | Australia (AUS) | 16.54 | 16.83 | 16.64 | 16.83 | q |
| 12 | A | Şeref Osmanoğlu | Ukraine (UKR) | 16.81 | x | 16.73 | 16.81 | q |
| 13 | A | Arnie David Giralt | Cuba (CUB) | 16.74 | 16.68 | 16.17 | 16.74 | |
| 14 | A | Fabrizio Schembri | Italy (ITA) | 16.71 | 16.28 | 16.63 | 16.71 | |
| 15 | B | Marian Oprea | Romania (ROM) | x | 16.61 | 16.19 | 16.61 | |
| 16 | B | Tosin Oke | Nigeria (NGR) | x | 16.50 | 16.60 | 16.60 | |
| 17 | B | Jefferson Sabino | Brazil (BRA) | 16.18 | 15.91 | 16.51 | 16.51 | |
| 18 | A | Aleksey Fyodorov | Russia (RUS) | 15.84 | 16.42 | 16.26 | 16.42 | |
| 19 | A | Samyr Lainé | Haiti (HAI) | 16.38 | 15.83 | 16.30 | 16.38 | |
| 20 | A | Li Yanxi | China (CHN) | 15.68 | 16.28 | 15.42 | 16.28 | |
| 21 | B | Hugo Mamba-Schlick | Cameroon (CMR) | 15.66 | 15.93 | 16.15 | 16.15 | |
| 22 | B | Anders Møller | Denmark (DEN) | 16.14 | 14.07 | x | 16.14 | |
| 23 | B | Walter Davis | United States (USA) | 15.28 | 13.90 | 16.12 | 16.12 | |
| 24 | A | Wilbert Walker | Jamaica (JAM) | 15.66 | 14.50 | 15.97 | 15.97 | |
| 25 | B | Yevhen Semenenko | Ukraine (UKR) | x | 15.72 | 15.96 | 15.96 | |
| 26 | B | Maximiliano Díaz | Argentina (ARG) | 15.91 | 15.65 | x | 15.91 | |
| | A | Sief El Islem Temacini | Algeria (ALG) | x | x | x | NM | |
| | A | Renjith Maheshwary | India (IND) | x | x | x | NM | |
| | A | Kim Deok-hyeon | South Korea (KOR) | x | x | x | NM | |
| | A | Tumelo Thagane | South Africa (RSA) | x | x | x | NM | |
| | B | Yevgeniy Ektov | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | x | x | x | NM | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Christian Taylor | United States (USA) | x | 17.04 | 17.40 | 17.96 | – | 15.64 | 17.96 | WL, PB |
| | Phillips Idowu | Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) | 17.56 | 17.38 | 17.70 | 17.77 | 17.48 | 17.49 | 17.77 | SB |
| | Will Claye | United States (USA) | x | x | 17.50 | 17.30 | – | 17.14 | 17.50 | PB |
| 4 | Alexis Copello | Cuba (CUB) | x | 17.19 | x | 17.36 | 17.47 | 16.11 | 17.47 | |
| 5 | Nelson Évora | Portugal (POR) | 17.35 | 16.80 | 16.63 | 16.18 | 16.57 | 16.95 | 17.35 | SB |
| 6 | Christian Olsson | Sweden (SWE) | 17.23 | 16.80 | 17.22 | 16.75 | – | – | 17.23 | |
| 7 | Leevan Sands | Bahamas (BAH) | 16.81 | x | 17.07 | 17.12 | 17.21 | 16.59 | 17.21 | |
| 8 | Benjamin Compaoré | France (FRA) | x | 17.04 | 17.17 | x | 16.99 | x | 17.17 | |
| 9 | Henry Frayne | Australia (AUS) | 16.45 | 16.78 | 16.60 | | | | 16.78 | |
| 10 | Fabrizio Donato | Italy (ITA) | 16.77 | x | x | | | | 16.77 | |
| 11 | Yoandri Betanzos | Cuba (CUB) | 14.93 | 16.22 | 16.67 | | | | 16.67 | |
| 12 | Şeref Osmanoğlu | Ukraine (UKR) | 16.29 | x | 16.38 | | | | 16.38 | |