The American men's record is held by Kenny Harrison who jumped 18.09 meters at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The American women's record is held by Tiombe Hurd who jumped 14.45 meters at a meet in Sacramento, California in 2004.
Note: Harrison's current American Record is also the Olympic Record.
Before the current record holder, Edwards, was Willie Banks.
He broke the Triple Jump World Record and currently still holds it. He was also the Olympic Triple Jump gold medalist in 2000 and 1996 Olympic Triple Jump silver medalist.
Ukraine's Inessa Kravets is the current women's world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.50 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.
Outdoors:Great Britain's Jonathan Edwards is the current men's world record holder in the triple jump. His jump of 18.29 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.He also has a jump of 18.43 metres (meters) which was not in the record book because of a strong tailwind.Ukraine's Inessa Kravets is the current women's world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.50 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.Indoors:France's Teddy Tamgho is the current men's indoor world record holder in the triple jump. His jump of 17.90 metres (meters) in 2010 is the current indoor world record.Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva is the current women's indoor world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.38 metres (meters) in 2004 is the current indoor world record.
Zafar Iqbal holds the record with 16.45m set in Karachi in 2007.
World: Jonathan Edwards (18.29 meters). Olympic: Kenny Harrison (18.09 meters).
Lynn Davies is the Welsh record holder with 8.23m. He was also the Olympic gold medallist in 1964.
I'm not sure if this is the only event, but Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain is the world record holder in the triple jump with a jump of 18.29 meters.
The current world record holder is Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with a jump of 18.29 metres (60' 1/4". which he set on the 7th August 1995 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The record for most Athletics Olympic medals won was 19 medals by Michael Phelps in swimming at the 2012 London Olympic Games.
World records were not kept for standing triple jump in 1904. The Olympic record was 10.58 meters held by Ray Ewry of the United States set at the 1900 Summer Games in Paris.
No Larry (real name Onochie) doesn't hold any important triple jump records (national, European, world) however he won the world junior title and the Commonwealth Games and has competed at the 2000 and 2008 Olympic Games.