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Men    Women 100 y 100 m 200 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 1 Mile 5000 m 10000 m Marathon 110 m Hurdles 400 m Hurdles 3000 m Steeplechase 4 x 100 m Relay 4 x 400 m Relay 10 km Track Walk 20 km Road Walk 50 km Road Walk 35 km Road Walk High Jump Pole Vault Long Jump Triple Jump Shot Put Discus Throw Hammer Throw Javelin Throw Decathlon 4 x 400 m Mixed

Men, Triple Jump World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated Chart     12.24 John Overland CAN Nov 14, 1839   12.63 W. Creswick GBR Liverpool Jun 20, 1868   13.33 E. Harding IRL Cork May 03, 1871   14.30 Daniel Looney IRL Cork 1879   14.50 John Burcell IRL Tralee Jun 15, 1885   14.50* Daniel Shanahan IRL Knockeney Jun 16, 1886   15.11 John Burcell IRL Cork May 07, 1887   15.25 Daniel Shanahan IRL Limerick Aug 06, 1888   15.26 Matthew Roseingreue IRL Gort Aug 15, 1895   15.34 John Breshnihan IRL Bandon Aug 26, 1906   15.39 Daniel Ahearn USA Boston Jul 31, 1909 • 15.52 Daniel Ahearn USA New York May 30, 1911 • 15.52* Anthony Winter AUS Paris Jul 12, 1924 • 15.58 Mikio Oda JPN Tokyo Oct 27, 1931 • 15.72 Chuhei Nambu JPN Los Angeles Aug 04, 1932 • 15.78 Jack Metcalfe AUS Sydney Dec 14, 1935 • 16.00 Naoto Tajima JPN Berlin Aug 06, 1936 • 16.00* Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Sao Paulo Dec 03, 1950 • 16.01 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Rio de Janeiro Sep 30, 1951 • 16.12 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Helsinki Jul 23, 1952 • 16.22 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Helsinki Jul 23, 1952 • 16.23 Leonid Shcherbakov URS Moscow Jul 19, 1953 • 16.56 Adhemar Ferreira da Silva BRA Mexico City Mar 16, 1955 • 16.59 Oleg Ryakhovskiy URS Moscow Jul 28, 1958 • 16.70 Oleg Fedoseyev URS Naltsik May 03, 1959 • 17.03 Jozef Schmidt POL Olsztyn Aug 05, 1960 • 17.10 Giuseppe Gentile ITA Mexico City Oct 16, 1968 • 17.22 Giuseppe Gentile ITA Mexico City Oct 17, 1968 • 17.23 Viktor Saneyev URS Mexico City Oct 17, 1968 • 17.27 Nelson Prudencio BRA Mexico City Oct 17, 1968 • 17.39 Viktor Saneyev URS Mexico City Oct 17, 1968 • 17.40 Pedro Perez CUB Cali Aug 05, 1971 • 17.44 Viktor Saneyev URS Suhumi Oct 17, 1972 • 17.89 Joao Carlos de Oliveira BRA Mexico City Oct 15, 1975 • 17.97 Willie Banks USA Indianapolis Jun 16, 1985 • 17.98 Jonathan Edwards GBR Salamanca Jul 18, 1995 • 18.16 Jonathan Edwards GBR Göteborg Aug 07, 1995 • 18.29 Jonathan Edwards GBR Göteborg Aug 07, 1995