Summer Olympics: Men's Triple Jump medal table 1896-2020

The Men's Triple Jump has been included in all Summer Olympic Games since 1896. Athletes from the United States have seen the most success in this event, winning eight golds and 18 total medals. Soviet jumper Viktor Saneyev is the event's most successful athlete, winning three back-to-back golds between 1968 and 1976, and a bronze medal in 1980. No athlete has ever been stripped of a medal won in this event. In 2020, Hugues Fabrice Zango won the first Olympic medal for Burkina Faso with his bronze jump of 17.47 meters.

Medal count by country in the Men's Triple Jump at the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2020

Country/Intenational Olympic Committee	Gold	Silver	Bronze
United States	8	8	2
Soviet Union*	4	5	4
Sweden	3	3	2
Japan	3	1	1
Great Britain	2	2	1
Brazil	2	1	3
Portugal	2	-	-
Poland	2	-	-
Australia	1	1	1
Finland	1	-	2
Bulgaria	1	-	-
China	-	1	1
Cuba	-	1	1
Argentina	-	1	-
Canada	-	1	-
East Germany*	-	1	-
France	-	1	-
Iceland	-	1	-
Romania	-	1	-
Bahamas	-	-	2
Italy	-	-	2
Russia	-	-	2
Burkina Faso	-	-	1
Greece	-	-	1
Norway	-	-	1
Turkey	-	-	1
Venezuela	-	-	1

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Release date

2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1896 to 2021

Supplementary notes

*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).

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