| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 February 1998 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Triple jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 14.26m (Shanyang, 2024) |
Medal record | |
Zeng Rui (born 6 February 1998) is a Chinese triple jumper. She has won Chinese national titles indoors and outdoors. [1]
In 2015, she won a silver medal at the World U18 Championships in Cali, Colombia. [2] She won a silver medal at the Asian Championships in Doha in 2019. [3]
She won the Chinese indoor title in Tianjin in March 2023. [4] She won the Chinese national title in Shenyang in June 2023. [5]
She won a silver medal at the Asian Championships in Bangkok in 2023. [6] She won silver at the Asian Games in Hangzhou in October 2023. [7]
She won silver at the Asian Indoor Championships in Tehran in February 2024. [8] She retained her Chinese national title in Rizhao in June 2024. [9] She competed in the triple jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [10] [11]
Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of the most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, world and European levels. She has a long jump best of 7.33 m and held the then indoor world record mark of 15.36 m in the triple jump. In 2017 she was banned for doping.
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.
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