Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's triple jump
# Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy on 26 and 27 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Yoelbi Quesada Cuba | Aliecer Urrutia Cuba | Robert Howard United States |

## Results

### Qualification

| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | Result | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | B | Sergey Izmaylov | Ukraine | 16.90 | Q |
| 2 | B | Andrey Kurennoy | Russia | 16.83 | Q |
| 3 | B | Charles Friedek | Germany | 16.80 | Q |
| 4 | ? | Aliecer Urrutia | Cuba | 16.75 | |
| 5 | ? | Robert Howard | United States | 16.69 | |
| 6 | ? | Yoelbi Quesada | Cuba | 16.54 | |
| 7 | ? | Zsolt Czingler | Hungary | 16.40 | |
| 8 | ? | Armen Martirosyan | Armenia | 16.37 | |
| 9 | ? | Sergey Arzamasov | Kazakhstan | 16.37 | |
| 10 | ? | Deldrian Smutherman | United States | 16.36 | |
| 11 | ? | Iván Salcedo | Mexico | 16.21 | |
| 12 | ? | Volodymyr Kravchenko | Ukraine | 16.18 | |
| 13 | ? | Dzmitry Vasilyau | Belarus | 16.11 | |
| 14 | ? | Krystian Ciemala | Poland | 16.09 | |
| 15 | ? | Takanori Sugibayashi | Japan | 16.00 | |
| 16 | ? | Marcio Cardoso | Brazil | 15.67 | |
| 17 | ? | Eduardo Martingo | Portugal | 15.53 | |
| 18 | ? | Du Jiuhui | China | 15.41 | |
| 19 | ? | Djamel Smichet | Algeria | 15.34 | |
| 20 | ? | Oscar Valiente | Peru | 15.17 | |
| 21 | ? | Ancel Luis Daniel Flores | Honduras | 15.06 | |
| 22 | ? | Christian Birk | Denmark | 14.56 | |
| 23 | ? | Illiap Ngonga | Chad | 14.34 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Result |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Yoelbi Quesada | Cuba | 17.35 |
| | Aliecer Urrutia | Cuba | 17.11 |
| | Robert Howard | United States | 17.08 |
| 4 | Andrey Kurennoy | Russia | 17.07 |
| 5 | Charles Friedek | Germany | 16.90 |
| 6 | Deldrian Smutherman | United States | 16.84 |
| 7 | Volodymyr Kravchenko | Ukraine | 16.69 |
| 8 | Armen Martirosyan | Armenia | 16.59 |
| 9 | Sergey Arzamasov | Kazakhstan | 16.18 |
| 10 | Sergey Izmaylov | Ukraine | 16.15 |
| 11 | Iván Salcedo | Mexico | 16.07 |
| 12 | Zsolt Czingler | Hungary | 15.92 |
