Women's triple jump at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 21–23 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 33 from 24 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning distance | 15.30 AF | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||
Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics | ||
---|---|---|
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 | women |
10,000 m | men | women |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | women |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4×100 m relay | men | women |
4×400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | women |
20 km walk | men | women |
50 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | women |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | women |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | women |
Combined events | ||
Heptathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
Wheelchair races | ||
The women's triple jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21–23 August. [1]
Coming into the competition, reigning world champion Tatyana Lebedeva was a favorite, having jumped 15.34m and 15.33m. earlier in July, slightly improving her position as the number two jumper in history which she had held since 2000. World record holder Inessa Kravets from nine years earlier, was no longer a factor, but Yamilé Aldama was also jumping well with a 15.28 just three weeks before the Olympics.
In the qualifying round, Hrysopiyi Devetzi shocked everyone with her 15.32m automatic qualifier on her only attempt. That was a Beamonesque improvement of her personal best and placed her as the number three jumper in history at that point in time, just 2 cm short of Lebedeva. Only 14.45 was required as an automatic qualifier and 14 other women managed that, though none went over 14.90m.
In the first round of the final, Devetzi showed she was serious taking the early lead with 14.96m. In the second round Trecia-Kaye Smith jumped 15.02m but was overshadowed by Françoise Mbango Etone's 15.30 m (50 ft 2+1⁄4 in) African record, a 25 cm improvement over her own record best. In the third round Devetzi improved to 15.14m to move back into second place. In the fourth round Devetzi improved her position again to 15.25m with Aldama moving into third place with her best of the day 14.99m. In the fifth round Lebedeva finally got over 15m with a 15.04m to take third place. She solidified her position with a 15.14m in the final round but Etone also solidified her position with a second 15.30m. After fouling her first attempt, Etone had five successive jumps over 15m including two at 15.30m. It would be the first Olympic gold medal for Cameroon. Etone would go on to defend her medal four year later with Cameroon's second gold medal. Her winning 15.39m jump in Beijing stood as the second best jump in history until 2019.
Of the top 16 jumps in history, most are between Etone, Devetzi, Lebedeva and Aldama, and mostly from jumps in 2004. The only other athletes included in that group are two jumps by world record holder Kravets, two in 2019 by Yulimar Rojas and one each by Caterine Ibargüen and Yargelis Savigne (all three two time World Champions). [2]
The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times (with the best distance of the six jumps counted). [3]
All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)
Date | Time | Round |
---|---|---|
Saturday, 21 August 2004 | 20:35 | Qualification |
Monday, 23 August 2004 | 18:45 | Final |
Prior to the competition [update] , the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50 m | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10 August 1995 |
Olympic record | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.33 m | Atlanta, United States | 4 August 1996 |
No new records were set during the competition.
Rule: Qualifying standard 14.45 (Q) or at least 12 best qualified (q).
Rank | Group | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | A | Hrysopiyi Devetzi | Greece | 15.32 | — | — | 15.32 | Q, NR |
2 | A | Baya Rahouli | Algeria | 14.89 | — | — | 14.89 | Q, NR |
3 | B | Yamilé Aldama | Sudan | 14.80 | — | — | 14.80 | Q |
4 | A | Kéné Ndoye | Senegal | 14.32 | 14.79 | — | 14.79 | Q |
5 | A | Tatyana Lebedeva | Russia | 14.71 | — | — | 14.71 | Q |
6 | B | Huang Qiuyan | China | 14.09 | 14.29 | 14.66 | 14.66 | Q, SB |
7 | B | Trecia-Kaye Smith | Jamaica | x | 14.65 | — | 14.65 | Q |
8 | B | Anna Pyatykh | Russia | x | 14.62 | — | 14.62 | Q |
9 | B | Françoise Mbango Etone | Cameroon | 14.61 | — | — | 14.61 | Q |
10 | A | Magdelín Martínez | Italy | 14.57 | — | — | 14.57 | Q |
11 | A | Olena Hovorova | Ukraine | 14.56 | — | — | 14.56 | Q |
11 | B | Adelina Gavrilă | Romania | 14.56 | — | — | 14.56 | Q |
13 | A | Olga Vasdeki | Greece | x | 14.54 | — | 14.54 | Q, SB |
14 | A | Yusmay Bicet | Cuba | 14.21 | 14.53 | — | 14.53 | Q |
15 | A | Natallia Safronava | Belarus | 14.52 | — | — | 14.52 | Q, SB |
16 | A | Mariana Solomon | Romania | x | 14.29 | 14.42 | 14.42 | PB |
17 | B | Simona La Mantia | Italy | 14.00 | 14.39 | x | 14.39 | |
18 | B | Carlota Castrejana | Spain | 14.32 | 14.37 | x | 14.37 | =SB |
19 | A | Mariya Dimitrova | Bulgaria | x | x | 14.16 | 14.16 | |
20 | A | Ineta Radēviča | Latvia | 14.12 | 14.03 | 14.06 | 14.12 | PB |
21 | B | Viktoriya Gurova | Russia | 14.04 | x | 14.03 | 14.04 | |
22 | A | Tiombe Hurd | United States | 13.98 | 13.97 | 13.93 | 13.98 | |
23 | B | Heli Koivula Kruger | Finland | x | 13.70 | 13.98 | 13.98 | |
24 | A | Olga Bolşova | Moldova | 13.90 | 13.87 | 13.64 | 13.90 | |
25 | A | Tatyana Bocharova | Kazakhstan | 13.18 | 13.41 | 13.81 | 13.81 | |
26 | A | Šárka Kašpárková | Czech Republic | x | x | 13.79 | 13.79 | |
27 | B | Anastasiya Juravleva | Uzbekistan | 13.64 | 13.52 | 13.51 | 13.64 | |
28 | B | Yuliana Pérez | United States | x | 13.62 | 13.51 | 13.62 | |
29 | B | Liliana Zagacka | Poland | 13.36 | 13.59 | 13.41 | 13.59 | |
30 | B | Tetyana Shchurenko | Ukraine | x | 13.12 | 13.55 | 13.55 | |
31 | B | Julia Dubina | Georgia | 13.36 | 12.61 | 12.90 | 13.36 | |
32 | A | Zhang Hao | China | x | 13.30 | x | 13.30 | |
33 | B | Athanasia Perra | Greece | 13.19 | x | — | 13.19 |
Rank | Name | Country | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Result | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Françoise Mbango Etone | Cameroon | x | 15.30 | 15.02 | 15.17 | 15.21 | 15.30 | 15.30 | AF | |
Hrysopiyi Devetzi | Greece | 14.96 | 14.59 | 15.14 | 15.25 | x | 14.92 | 15.25 | ||
Tatyana Lebedeva | Russia | x | 14.84 | 14.95 | x | 15.04 | 15.14 | 15.14 | ||
4 | Trecia-Kaye Smith | Jamaica | x | 15.02 | 13.23 | x | x | 14.70 | 15.02 | |
5 | Yamilé Aldama | Sudan | x | 14.90 | 14.74 | 14.99 | 13.92 | 14.19 | 14.99 | |
6 | Baya Rahouli | Algeria | 14.75 | 14.86 | 14.57 | 14.76 | x | 14.68 | 14.86 | |
7 | Magdelín Martínez | Italy | 14.70 | 14.85 | 14.58 | 14.50 | 14.51 | 14.76 | 14.85 | |
8 | Anna Pyatykh | Russia | 14.16 | 14.58 | x | x | x | 14.79 | 14.79 | |
9 | Yusmay Bicet | Cuba | x | x | 14.57 | 14.57 | ||||
10 | Olena Hovorova | Ukraine | 14.07 | 14.35 | 14.35 | 14.35 | ||||
11 | Olga Vasdeki | Greece | 14.34 | 14.08 | x | 14.34 | ||||
12 | Huang Qiuyan | China | 13.85 | 14.33 | 14.04 | 14.33 | ||||
13 | Natallia Safronava | Belarus | 14.20 | x | 14.22 | 14.22 | ||||
14 | Kéné Ndoye | Senegal | x | 14.09 | 14.18 | 14.18 | ||||
15 | Adelina Gavrilă | Romania | x | x | 13.86 | 13.86 |
The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit. The triple jump was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympics event since the Games' inception in 1896.
The men's triple jump competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20–22 August. Forty-seven athletes from 35 nations competed. The event was won by Christian Olsson of Sweden, the nation's first victory in the event since 1948 and third overall. Marian Oprea won Romania's first men's triple jump medal with his silver. Russia earned bronze for the second consecutive Games, this time with Danil Burkenya taking the medal.
Olena Ivanivna Hovorova, also known as Yelena Govorova, is a former Ukrainian track and field athlete who specialised in triple jump competitions. She won the triple jump bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics with her personal best jump of 14.96 metres. She represented Ukraine at the Olympics in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 triple jump competitions – the first three Olympic competitions for the discipline. She also competed at five consecutive World Championships in Athletics from 1995 to 2003.
Hrysopiyi "Piyi" Devetzi is a retired Greek athlete who competed in the triple jump and long jump.
Olga Rypakova is a Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.
These are the official results of the Women's Triple Jump event at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. There were a total number of 32 participating athletes, with two qualifying groups and the final held on Thursday August 10, 1995.
The women's triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and 17 at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.
The women's long jump at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place on 19 and 22 August at the Beijing National Stadium.
The men's triple jump at the 1952 Olympic Games took place on 23 July at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium. Thirty-five athletes from 23 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. Brazilian athlete Adhemar da Silva won the gold medal, breaking the world record twice. It was Brazil's first medal and first victory in the men's long jump. All three of the nations represented on the podium were relatively new to the event in the Olympics; Brazil had sent triple jumpers in 1948, but the Soviet Union and Venezuela each won medals in their first appearance.
The Women's Triple Jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. Cuban Yargelis Savigne had registered nine of the ten farthest jumps pre-championships and was seen as a strong favourite. The twice world gold medallist Tatyana Lebedeva and world-leader Nadezhda Alekhina were also considered possible medallists. The reigning Olympic champion, Françoise Mbango, had failed to perform well in the buildup to the championships and did not start the competition.
The men's triple jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on 16 and 18 August. The season had seen a number of athletes performing to a high level before the championships, with reigning World and Olympic champion Nelson Évora leading with 17.66 metres and all three athletes of the Cuban team having jumped over 17.60 m in the season. The other athlete to jump that distance was Phillips Idowu, who was keen make up for his loss to Évora in the 2008 Olympics. The Olympic medallists Évora, Idowu, and Leevan Sands, and the Cuban trio of David Giralt, Yoandris Betanzos and Alexis Copello, were judged to be the strongest competitors entering the competition.
Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou is a Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third place at the 2016 World indoor Championships. She was removed from the Greek team for the 2012 London Olympics by the Greek Olympic Committee after making a racist comment online. At the 2016 Summer Olympics' final in Rio de Janeiro, she took the 8th place. In 2018 she was the European Champion in Berlin with a jump of 14,60 metres.
The Women's triple jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 3–5 August.
The men's triple jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 7–9 August. Twenty-seven athletes from 21 nations competed. The event was won by Christian Taylor of the United States, the nation's first victory in the event since 1996 and seventh overall. His teammate Will Claye won silver; Claye was the first man to medal in both the long jump and triple jump since 1936. Fabrizio Donato earned Italy's first medal in the men's triple jump since 1968.
The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first contested in 1996. It became the third Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump and long jump.
The men's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 15–16 August. Forty-seven athletes from 35 nations competed. The event was won by Christian Taylor of the United States, the fifth man to successfully defend Olympic gold in the triple jump. It was the United States' eighth victory in the event. Just as in London four years earlier, Will Claye took silver; the two Americans were the 13th and 14th men to win multiple medals in the event. Dong Bin of China earned bronze, the nation's first medal in the men's triple jump.
The Women's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 13–14 August.
The women's triple jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 30 July and 1 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium.
The women's triple jump at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar, from 3 to 5 October 2019.
The women's triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 16 and 18 July 2022. 28 athletes from 20 nations entered to the event.