1995 World Championships in Athletics – Men's triple jump

These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 44 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Monday August 7, 1995.

Almost three weeks before this championship, Jonathan Edwards had just marginally improved upon Willie Banks' ten year old world record (17.97m), by jumping 17.98m in Salamanca. In the preliminary round he was not even the #1 qualifier, edged out by Jérôme Romain. In his first attempt in the final Edwards umped a world record of 18.16 m. In doing so he became the first athlete in to jump further than 18 metres without wind assistance. In the second round he jumped even further, setting a new world record of 18.29 m (60 ft 0 in), the first jump over 60 feet. Edwards passed on three of his four remaining attempts. The minor medals were exceptionally close, with three centimetres separating silver and fourth, and bronze decided only on countback.

It took more than 20 years for Christian Taylor to become the first man to jump beyond Edwards' first record. 30 years later, his second world record remained unmatched.^[1]