Willie Banks, Mike Conley,Joa Carlos de Oliveira, Kenny Harrison, Adhemar da Silva,Jonathan Edwards, Al Joyner,Viktor Saneyev, Norm Tate, Yoelvis Quesada (with John Craft and Art Walker barely missing).
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10 Best Triple-Jumpers, for Consistency
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Originally posted by imaginativeSeveral of the above jumpers (including Edwards) were not very
consistent---no matter their position in a ``best-of-all-times''
list.
My own feeling about the triple jump is that it is all about aesthetics, and no one was more fluid and graceful as edwards, sure some come close but he is to the triple jump what Alyson Felix is to the 200m, and we all have read paulthefans prose on felix. Edwards makes 90% of the other 17.5 + jumpers look like lumbering beasts, Olsson and the big Brazilian stomp where edwards hovered. Watching him was like watching a piece of shale skip across a pond, it is a sight that mesmerizes the track fan again and again. Can nature produce another Edwards, I hope so.... nothing really ever changes my friend, new lines for old, new lines for old.
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Jonathan Edwards vs everyone else, wind-legal only:
18.00+ 4/5 jumps
17.90+ 7/15
17.80+ 10/30
17.70+ 19/84
17.60+ 36/176
17.50+ 50/352
Took that from Peter Larsson's site because I don't have ancillary jumps in my database.
Is that consistent? You decide. Leaves no doubt who is the best triple jumper ever, though.
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Originally posted by paulthefanOriginally posted by imaginativeSeveral of the above jumpers (including Edwards) were not very
consistent---no matter their position in a ``best-of-all-times''
list.
both awesome and a better jumper than Olsson.)
Being consistent is about being able to pump out more-or-less the same
effort more-or-less every competition. This is a different measure
than maximum ability. It is, in fact, quite possible that the top-ten
in this area are/were comparatively low-profile jumpers. (It would,
obviously, make sense to have some kind of cut-off for a discussion
like this, e.g. to consider only 17+m jumpers, only global medalists,
or similar.)
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Originally posted by imaginative
Being consistent is about being able to pump out more-or-less the same
effort more-or-less every competition. This is a different measure
than maximum ability. It is, in fact, quite possible that the top-ten
in this area are/were comparatively low-profile jumpers. (It would,
obviously, make sense to have some kind of cut-off for a discussion
like this, e.g. to consider only 17+m jumpers, only global medalists,
or similar.)
I understand your point and without referencing Ralph Waldo Emerson wouldn't one rather have been a WR jumper on the 3 times it mattered most than a 17m jumper every day of the week and never make a final. Consistency in T&F has to be when one is on the big stage.
For instance imagine a long jumper that jumped 8.5m the last two years and was unable to get a medal at WC or Oly... I could care less how many times he jumped 8.5m, how consistent he was week in and week out, rising to the occasion at every weekly invitational and his national champs if on the one day it really mattered he was a dud.... nothing really ever changes my friend, new lines for old, new lines for old.
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