Melvin "Mel" Lister [1] (born August 29, 1977, in New York City, New York) [2] is an American long jumper and triple jumper.
He finished fifth in long jump at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. He also competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the final.
His personal best long jump is 8.49 metres, achieved in May 2000 in Baton Rouge. His personal best triple jump is 17.78 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Sacramento. He also had 20.51 seconds in the 200 metres.
Lister competed collegiately at track and field powerhouse University of Arkansas.
Armen Martirosyan is a retired Armenian triple jumper. He came in fifth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics and also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's triple jump. Martirosyan won a bronze medal at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in Stockholm. His personal best triple jump is 17.41 metres, achieved in June 1998 in Gyumri. His personal best triple jump indoors is 17.21 metres, achieved on 17 January 1999 in Yerevan. Both of these are the Armenian records.
Viktor Andriyovych Kuznyetsov is a Ukrainian long jumper and triple jumper.
Norifumi Yamashita is a retired Japanese triple jumper. He was the first Japanese to jump over 17 metres in the event. His personal best jump was 17.15 metres, achieved in June 1986 in Tokyo.
Allen Simms is an American triple jumper and Social Entrepreneur.
Andreas Pohle is a German long jumper and triple jumper.
Konstadinos ("Kostas") Zalagitis is a retired Greek triple jumper. He was born in Trikala.
Zita Ajkler is a Hungarian long jumper. She is a 16-time Hungarian national champion in the long jump, triple jump, heptathlon, and 100-meter hurdles. Her personal best is 676 cm in the long jump and 13.99 m in the triple jump ; 13.75 s in 100-meter hurdles (wind-1.2), 8.35 s in 60-meter hurdles, and 5,323 points in the heptathlon.
Juliana Yendork is a retired Ghanaian American long jumper and triple jumper.
LeJuan Waynesley Simon was a Trinidad and Tobago triple jumper.
Mohammad Hazzory is a former Syrian triple jumper.
Robert Howard was an American triple and long jumper, a nine-time NCAA collegiate champion, and murderer.
Ian Bernard Campbell is a retired long and triple jumper from Australia. He is best known for being "fouled" multiple times during the 1980 Moscow Olympics, under controversial circumstances.
Keila da Silva Costa is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper. She has competed in three Olympic Games, 2004, 2008 and 2012, and has reached the final round both there and in World Championships and World Indoor Championships. She is the South American record holder in triple jump with 14.58 metres, and has 6.88 metres in the long jump. Both results were achieved in 2007.
Luciana Alves dos Santos is a Brazilian long jumper, triple jumper and sprinter.
Fabrizio Donato is an Italian former athlete who competed in the triple jump and occasionally in the long jump. He is known for winning gold medals at the 2001 Mediterranean Games and the 2009 European Indoor Championships, the latter in a new championship record of 17.59 metres. He is the Italian record holder with 17.60 metres outdoor and 17.73 indoor.
Younès Moudrik is a retired Moroccan long jumper.
Christian Taylor is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and has a personal record of 18.21 m, which ranks 2nd on the all-time list.
Amanda Smock is an American triple jumper who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In college, she was a three-time NCAA Division II track and field champion. She won the triple jump events at the United States Outdoor Championships in 2011 and 2012, and at the Indoor Championships in 2011.
Omar Craddock is an American track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump. With the University of Florida he won one indoor and two outdoor NCAA titles in the event. He competed alongside Christian Taylor and Will Claye in a succession of elite level triple jumpers to come from the Florida Gators track and field team.
Yuliana Pérez Martinéz is an American triple jumper of Cuban heritage. Holding a dual citizenship to compete internationally, she attained two U.S. outdoor championship titles in the triple jump, picked up a silver medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and finished twenty-eighth at the 2004 Summer Olympics. During her track and field career, Perez has acquired a personal best of 14.23 m and 13.80 m each in the outdoors and indoors, respectively.