2018 IAAF Continental Cup – Results
Rank Athlete Nationality Team # 1 # 2 # 3 # semifinal Best Points
1 Christian Taylor United States Americas 17.59 17.04 - 17.41 17.59 8
2 Hugues Fabrice Zango Burkina Faso Africa 16.92 16.77 17.02 16.44 17.02 7
3 Arpinder Singh India Asia-Pacific 16.59 16.45 16.06 16.33 16.59 6
4 Nelson Évora Portugal Europe 16.58 x - 16.28 16.58 5
5 Cristian Nápoles Cuba Americas 16.56 17.07 x 17.07 4
6 Ruslan Kurbanov Uzbekistan Asia-Pacific 16.10 16.34 16.33 16.34 3
7 Godfrey Khotso Mokoena South Africa Africa 16.02 16.25 14.71 16.25 2
8 Pablo Torrijos Spain Europe 15.27 15.42 x 15.42 1
Men -- Field
9 September [ 15 ] Americas chose this as their Joker . Easy to anticipate , the best active jumper , # 2 in history Christian Taylor jumped 17.59 on his first attempt . He was backed up by Cristian Nápoles jumping 17.07 , to win the non-finalists . Only Hugues Fabrice Zango was able to exceed 17 metres , with his Burkina Faso National record 17.02 on his last preliminary attempt ( though he had a superior pending record from a month earlier ) . In the semi final round , it only took 16.44 for Zango to beat Arpinder Singh and Nelson Évora to get into the final . Taylor jumped almost a metre further . And Taylor won the final by 85 cm .
These are the results of the 2018 IAAF Continental Cup, which took place in Ostrava, Czech Republic on 8-9 September 2018.