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Men's triple jump at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh
Dates	24 and 25 July 1970
Medalists
Phil May    Australia   Mick McGrath    Australia   Mohinder Singh Gill    India
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Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's triple jump event at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games was held on 24 and 25 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Medallists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Phil May  Australia	Mick McGrath  Australia	Mohinder Singh Gill  India

Results

Qualification

Qualification for final: q in Notes column

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
1	Mick McGrath	Australia	16.09	q
2	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	16.08	q
3	Mohinder Singh Gill	India	16.07	q
4	Phil May	Australia	15.87	q
5	Tony Wadhams	England	15.80	q
6	Patrick Onyango Sumba	Kenya	15.65	q
7	Johnston Amoah	Ghana	15.53	q
8	Labh Singh	India	15.52	q
9	Abraham Munabi	Uganda	15.51	q
10	Lennox Burgher	Jamaica	15.19	q
11=	Dave Norris	New Zealand	15.01	q
11=	Alan Lerwill	England	15.01	q
11=	Reynold Edwards	Antigua and Barbuda	15.01	q
14	Hamish Robertson	Scotland	14.91
15	Obed Gardiner	Bahamas	14.79
16	George Ogan	Nigeria	14.70
17	Graham Webb	Wales	14.64
18	Henry Jackson	Jamaica	14.63
19	John Kanondo	Tanzania	14.61
20	Don Miller	Bahamas	14.52
21	Granville Buckley	Antigua and Barbuda	14.48
22	Jack Buga	Uganda	14.46
23	Raphael Mlewa	Tanzania	13.99
24	Graham Hamlyn	England	13.96
25	Orlando Williams	Sierra Leone	13.48
26	Samson Mubangalala	Zambia	13.39
	Raymond Anthony	Grenada	NM
	Sheikh Faye	Gambia	DNS

Final

Final results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
	Phil May	Australia	16.72	GR
	Mick McGrath	Australia	16.41
	Mohinder Singh Gill	India	15.90
4	Abraham Munabi	Uganda	15.87
5	Johnston Amoah	Ghana	15.73
6	Labh Singh	India	15.70
7	Samuel Igun	Nigeria	15.67
8	Patrick Onyango Sumba	Kenya	15.61
9	Lennox Burgher	Jamaica	15.23
10	Alan Lerwill	England	15.19
11	Dave Norris	New Zealand	14.46
12	Reynold Edwards	Antigua and Barbuda	14.30
13	Tony Wadhams	England	13.70

References

1. "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

• Qualification results (p39)
• Final results (p10)
• Australian results

• Athletics at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games
• Triple jump at the Commonwealth Games