Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's triple jump

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Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade
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
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The men's triple jump event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 10 and 11 September 1979.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Willie Banks  United States	Jaak Uudmäe  Soviet Union	Roberto Mazzucato  Italy

Results

Qualification

^[3]

Qualification mark: 16.00 m

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	B	Gennadiy Valyukevich	Soviet Union	16.99	Q
2	A	Willie Banks	United States	16.81	Q
3	B	Miloš Srejović	Yugoslavia	16.27	Q
4	A	Paolo Piapan	Italy	16.25	Q[4]
4	B	Jaak Uudmäe	Soviet Union	16.25	Q
6	A	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	16.23	Q
6	B	Juan Velásquez	Cuba	16.23	Q
8	A	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania	16.22	Q
9	A	Ramón Cid	Spain	16.15	Q[5]
10	B	José Luis Rodríguez	Spain	16.14	Q[5]
11	B	Ioannis Afthinos	Greece	16.11	Q
11	B	Dennis Ivory	United States	16.11	Q
13	B	Roberto Mazzucato	Italy	16.03	Q[4]
14	B	Alfredo Melão	Angola	15.79
15	B	José Salazar	Venezuela	15.78
16	B	Moham Diop	Senegal	15.02

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Willie Banks	United States						17.23	17.23
	Jaak Uudmäe	Soviet Union							17.20
	Roberto Mazzucato	Italy	16.52	16.75	16.66	16.87	16.68	16.29	16.87	[8]
4	Ramón Cid	Spain	13.35	16.14	14.11	16.30	16.31	16.71w	16.71w	[9]
5	Miloš Srejović	Yugoslavia							16.57
6	Juan Velásquez	Cuba							16.37
7	Béla Bakosi	Hungary							16.22
8	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania							16.18
9	Gennadiy Valyukevich	Soviet Union							15.98	[10]
10	Ioannis Afthinos	Greece							15.94
11	Dennis Ivory	United States							15.90
12	Paolo Piapan	Italy							15.72	[8]
13	José Luis Rodríguez	Spain							15.56

References

1. ^ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. ^ Results at Tilastopaja
3. ^ Year list
4. ^ ^{a b} "Oggi la finale dei 200 metri" (in Italian). La Stampa. 12 September 1979. p. 17.
5. ^ ^{a b} "En 200 para Mennea; 400 para Hornillos; 110 para Moracho" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 12 September 1979. p. 34.
6. ^ "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 12 September 1979. p. 22. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
7. ^ "Final results". Democrat and Chronicle. 12 September 1979. p. 49. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
8. ^ ^{a b} "Tre medaglie sotto il diluvio" (in Italian). La Stampa. 13 September 1979. p. 21.
9. ^ Spanish top list
10. ^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p93)