1936, Triple Jump, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin

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1936, Triple Jump, Men, Olympic Games, Berlin Date: 6 August 1936 Rank Name Nation Distance 1 Naoto Tajima JPN 16.00m [52' 6"] WR 2 Masao Harada JPN 15.66m [51' 4 ½"] 3 John Metcalfe AUS 15.50m [50' 10 ¼"] 4 Heinz Wollner GER 15.27m [50' 1 ¼"] 5 Rolland Romero USA 15.08m [49' 5 ¾"] 6 Kenkichi Oshima JPN 15.07m [49' 5 ¼"] 7 Erich Joch GER 14.88m [48' 9 ¾"] 8 Dudley Wilkins USA 14.83m [48' 7 ¾"] In 1928 Japan's Mikio Oda became the first Asian to win a gold medal when he took the Olympic title in the Triple Jump at the Amsterdam Games. In the next four years the Japanese had taken over the event and established a dynasty of great jumpers. Oda had become the world record holder in the TJ and Chuhei Nambo was the record holder in the Long Jump finishing third at Los Angeles with his compatriot Naoto Tajima in sixth place. Not surprisingly the Japanese were favourites to win at Berlin and they had three men in the final -- Tajima, Harada and Oshima. The huge crowd was treated to a wonderful display of technical brilliance and a thrilling contest between Tajima and Harada. The former set a new World record in duplicating Nambu's 1932 feat of winning the TJ gold medal two days after he had earned the bronze medal in the Long Jump. Luz Long, silver medallist in the LJ to Jesse Owens, placed tenth in the Triple Jump.