Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 21 and 22 July 1981.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Zou Zhenxian   China	Béla Bakosi   Hungary	Keith Connor   Great Britain

Results

Qualification

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Qualifying mark: 16.00 m

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Adrian Ghioroaie	Romania	16.43	Q
2	Willie Banks	United States	16.38	Q
3	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	Soviet Union	16.36	Q
4	Zou Zhenxian	China	16.17	Q
5	Robert Cannon	United States	16.15	Q
6	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania	16.05	Q
7	Keith Connor	Great Britain	16.03
8	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	16.02
9	Masami Nakanishi	Japan	16.00
10	Joshua Kio	Nigeria	15.85
11	Li Menghchun	China	15.74
12	Vladimir Chernikov	Soviet Union	15.69
13	Ramón Cid	Spain	15.66	^[3]
14	Ioannis Afthinos	Greece	15.08
15	Alessandro Ussi	Italy	14.98
16	Saïd Saad	Algeria	14.73
17	Mirihij Mahdi	Iraq	14.43

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Zou Zhenxian	China	17.32	UR, AR
	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	16.97
	Keith Connor	Great Britain	16.88
4	Aleksandr Beskrovniy	Soviet Union	16.87
5	Robert Cannon	United States	16.55
6	Adrian Ghioroaie	Romania	16.55
7	Vladimir Chernikov	Soviet Union	16.53
8	Bedros Bedrosian	Romania	16.36
9	Masami Nakanishi	Japan	16.11
10	Li Menghchun	China	15.99
	Willie Banks	United States	DNS	^[6]
	Joshua Kio	Nigeria	DNS

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. "Jury achter Comaneci" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 22 July 1981. p. 9.
3. "La Universiada-81 repartió sus primeras medallas" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 22 July 1981. p. 23. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
4. "Final results". The Town Talk. 23 July 1981. p. 30. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
5. "Final results". United Press International. 22 July 1981. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
6. "Chinese-Soviet 'war' mars University Games". The Pantagraph. 23 July 1981. p. 13. Retrieved 22 March 2020.