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Stephen Shalders (born 24 December 1981 in Bridgend) is a Welsh triple jumper.
He finished tenth at the 2000 World Junior Championships, and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games he finished sixth in the triple jump and eighth in the 4x100 metres relay. [1] He then won the silver medal at the 2005 Universiade and finished tenth at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
His personal best jump is 16.71 metres, achieved in September 2005 in Manchester.
Françoise Mbango Etone is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete. She has competed internationally for France since 2010. While competing for Cameroon, Etone was a 2-time Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She held the Olympic record for triple jump which she set with a distance of 15.39 m at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The 15.39 m is the third longest women's triple jump in history under any conditions. Only 25 women have ever jumped 15 metres, Etone jumped beyond 15 metres on 7 of her last 11 attempts in the Olympic final alone.
Magdelín Martínez Castillo is a Cuban-born female triple jumper, competing internationally for Italy.
Darren Ritchie is a Scottish former long jumper. He was born in Edinburgh.
Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014. He is a former World Outdoor and Indoor, European Outdoor and Indoor, and Commonwealth triple jump champion. He was also a silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Idowu is a member of the London-based Belgrave Harriers athletics club and has been for much of his career.
The squad to represent Wales at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was announced by the Commonwealth Games Council for Wales (CGCW) on 22 February 2006. It consisted of 143 athletes competing across 14 sports; 85 fewer than the squad in 2002. The team was not able to improve on their medal tally from the 2002 Commonwealth Games when Wales won 6 Gold, 13 Silver and 12 Bronze medals. The team was captained by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson.
Gable Garenamotse is a Botswana long jumper, who has won two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games.
Godfrey Khotso Mokoena OIB is a South African athlete who specializes in the long jump and triple jump.
Viktor Andriyovych Kuznyetsov is a Ukrainian long jumper and triple jumper.
Ndiss Kaba Badji is a Senegalese athlete who competes in the long jump and triple jump. He is the Senegalese record holder for triple jump, with 17.07 metres achieved when he won the 2008 African Championships. He has a personal best long jump of 8.32 metres, achieved in October 2009 in Beirut, helping him to win the silver medal at the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie.
Olga RypakovaAlekseyeva; 30 November 1984) is a former 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.
Chinonyelum Pius “Chinonye” Ohadugha is a Nigerian triple jumper.
Ibrahim Mohamedin Aboubaker is a Qatari triple jumper.
Wilbert Walker is a Jamaican triple jumper. His personal best jump is 16.47 metres (indoor), achieved in March 2006 in Boston. He also has 8.13 metres in the long jump, achieved in May 2006 in Emporia.
Fabrizio Donato is an Italian athlete competing 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.
Henry Frayne is an Australian track and field athlete who competes in triple jump and long jump. He qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished 14th in qualifying with a distance of 7.93m, and did not qualify for the final.
Kane Brigg is a retired Australian high jumper and triple jumper.
Lerato Lydia Sechele is a Lesotho triple jumper.
Nattaporn Namkanha is a retired Thai long jumper and triple jumper who was a mainstay on the continental level.
Susan Eva Moncrieff, née Jones is a female retired English high jumper.
Carl Morgan is a Caymanian long jumper.
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