Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump

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Women's triple jump
at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date3–5 August
Competitors35 from 24 nations
Winning distance14.98
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Olga Rypakova Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan
Silver medal icon.svg Caterine Ibargüen Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Bronze medal icon.svg Olha Saladukha Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine
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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. [1]

Greece's Paraskevi Papachristou was sent home by the national delegation for comments she made on Twitter.

Four athletes achieved the automatic qualifier, Kimberly Williams and home team favorite Yamilé Aldama, just two weeks short of her 40th birthday, hit the mark in their first attempt. Olga Rypakova's third round jump of 14.79 led the way, while it took 14.16 to make the final.

The only returning medalist from 2008 was Tatyana Lebedeva, but at 36, she was jumping more than 1.20 m less than four years ago. Fourth place from that competition Olga Rypakova took the lead in the first round. Hanna Knyazyeva edged ahead in the second round. In the third round Caterine Ibargüen took the lead briefly, but then Rypakova hit the winner at 14.98 on the next jump. In the final round, Olha Saladukha nailed her best jump to move into silver medal position. Two jumps later, Ibargüen bested that by a mere centimeter to push Saladukha back to bronze. Rypakova's winning jump was 13 cm less than her 4th place jump, even less than the 6th place jump in 2008.

Competition format

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). [2]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Friday, 3 August 201210:25Qualifications
Sunday, 5 August 201219:35Finals

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World recordFlag of Ukraine.svg  Inessa Kravets  (UKR)15.50 m Göteborg, Sweden10 August 1995
Olympic recordFlag of Cameroon.svg  Françoise Mbango Etone  (CMR)15.39 m Beijing, China17 August 2008
2012 World leadingFlag of Ukraine.svg  Olha Saladukha  (UKR)14.99 m Helsinki, Finland29 June 2012

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 14.40m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes [3]
1B Olga Rypakova Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan x13.9914.7914.79Q
2A Kimberly Williams Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 14.5314.53Q, PB
3A Yamilé Aldama Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 14.4514.45Q
4B Caterine Ibargüen Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 14.2414.4214.42Q
5A Olha Saladukha Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 14.2614.35x14.35q
6B Hanna Knyazyeva Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 14.33xx14.33q
7B Trecia-Kaye Smith Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica x14.31x14.31q, SB
8A Tatyana Lebedeva Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 14.1714.3014.30q
9B Yargelis Savigne Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 14.2214.2814.0214.28q
10A Dana Velďáková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia x14.2213.8414.22q
DSQA Viktoriya Valyukevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 14.0914.1913.8614.19q
12A Marija Šestak Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia x14.1614.1214.16q
13B Patrícia Mamona Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 14.1113.9713.9614.11
14B Ayanna Alexander Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 13.9813.9214.0914.09
15A Hanna Demydova Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 13.9713.60x13.97
15B Dailenys Alcántara Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 13.97xx13.97
17B Veronika Mosina Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 13.7213.5613.9613.96
18B Simona La Mantia Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 13.7713.9213.7313.92
19A Josleidy Ribalta Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 13.7113.1213.8813.88
20B Keila Costa Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil x13.6913.8413.84
21B Svetlana Bolshakova Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 13.8413.4213.4513.84
22B Mayookha Johny Flag of India.svg  India 13.7713.6813.6213.77
23B Xie Limei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 13.63x13.6913.69
24A Niki Panetta Flag of Greece.svg  Greece x13.6613.6313.66
25B Biljana Topić Flag of Serbia.svg  Serbia xx13.6613.66
26B Patricia Sarrapio Flag of Spain.svg  Spain x13.64x 13.64
27A Amanda Smock Flag of the United States.svg  United States x13.4313.6113.61
28A Aleksandra Kotlyarova Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan 13.33x13.5513.55
29B Anastasiya Juravleva Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Uzbekistan 13.54xx13.54
30A Li Yanmei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 13.4312.7813.1513.43
31A Irina Litvinenko Ektova Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 13.39xx13.39
32A Andriana Banova Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria x12.8813.3313.33
33B Athanasia Perra Flag of Greece.svg  Greece xx11.9311.93
A Cristina Bujin Flag of Romania.svg  Romania xxxNM
A Kseniya Dziatsuk Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus xxxNM

Final

RankNameNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6ResultNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Olga Rypakova Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan 14.54x14.98x14.8914.4014.98
Silver medal icon.svg Caterine Ibargüen Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 14.4513.9914.6714.3714.3514.8014.80
Bronze medal icon.svg Olha Saladukha Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine 13.9214.48x14.5314.5114.7914.79
4 Hanna Knyazyeva Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine X14.5614.1614.1414.16x14.56
5 Yamilé Aldama Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain 14.1014.0914.3914.3214.4314.4814.48
6 Kimberly Williams Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 14.35x14.4814.19x14.2014.48
7 Trecia-Kaye Smith Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica xx14.3514.3413.74x14.35
8 Yargelis Savigne Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 14.1212.1313.91Did not advance14.12
9 Tatyana Lebedeva Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 14.1114.0314.01Did not advance14.11
10 Marija Šestak Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia 13.8413.9813.98Did not advance13.98
11 Dana Velďáková Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia xx11.92Did not advance11.92
DSQ Viktoriya Valyukevich Flag of Russia.svg  Russia 14.2413.7514.1813.7514.15x14.24DSQ for doping

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References

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