Caterine Ibargüen

Caterine Ibargüen
Caterine Ibargüen in Rome 2017
Full name	Caterine Ibargüen Mena
nation	Colombia
birthday	12th February 1984 (age 36)
place of birth	Apartadó , Colombia
size	185 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	15.31 m
society	Antioquia
Trainer	Ubaldo Duany
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 1 × 2 × Pan American Games 2 × 0 × 1 × CAC games 3 × 4 × 1 × South American Championships 5 × 3 × 6 ×
Olympic games silver London 2012 14.80 m gold Rio de Janeiro 2016 15.17 m  World championships bronze Daegu 2011 14.84 m gold Moscow 2013 14.85 m gold Beijing 2015 14.90 m silver London 2017 14.89 m bronze Doha 2019 14.73 m  Pan American Games gold Guadalajara 2011 14.92 m bronze Guadalajara 2011 6.63 m gold Toronto 2015 15.08 m Central America and Caribbean Games silver San Salvador 2002 13.17 m bronze San Salvador 2002 1.79 m silver Cartagena 2006 1.88 m silver Cartagena 2006 6.36 m silver Mayagüez 2010 14.10 m gold Veracruz 2014 14.57 m gold Barranquilla 2018 6.83 m gold Barranquilla 2018 14.92 m South American Championships bronze Bogotá 1999 1.76 m silver Barquisimeto 2003 6.04 m bronze Barquisimeto 2003 13.07 m gold Cali 2005 1.93 m bronze Cali 2005 6.30 m bronze Cali 2005 13.59 m gold Tunja 2006 1.90 m silver Tunja 2006 6.51 m silver Tunja 2006 13.91 m gold São Paulo 2007 1.84 m bronze São Paulo 2007 6.18 m gold Lima 2009 1.88 m gold Lima 2009 13.93 m gold Buenos Aires 2011 14.59 m bronze Buenos Aires 2011 6.45 m
last change: October 11, 2019

Caterine Ibargüen Mena (born February 12, 1984 in Apartadó , Antioquia ) is a Colombian athlete . She competes in both high and long and triple jump . In the triple jump she is two-time world champion and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

Beginnings in South America (1999 to 2010)

Caterine Ibargüen (2012)

Caterine Ibargüen gained her first international experience at the South American Championships in Bogotá in 1999 , where she won the bronze medal in the high jump with 1.76 m. Then she retired at the Youth World Championships in Bydgoszcz with 1.65 m in qualification and won the silver medal at the Junior South American Championships in Concepción with skipped 1.73 m. Two years later she won the Junior South American Championships in Santa Fe with 1.77 m and won two silver medals with 5.87 m in the long jump and with the Colombian 4 x 100 meter relay and the bronze medal with 12.65 m in the triple jump . Then she won at the Pan American Junior Championships there with 1.77 m silver in the high jump and bronze with the relay. She was also fourth in the third and sixth in the long jump. Then she won with 1.79 m at the Juegos Bolivarianos in Ambato . In 2002 she retired in the triple jump with 12.69 m at the Junior World Championships in Kingston and then won silver and bronze at the South American Championships in the high and triple jump at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Bridgetown . At the Central America and Caribbean Games (CAC) in San Salvador he also won the silver medal in the triple jump with a width of 13.17 m and bronze in the high jump with 1.79 m.

In 2003 she celebrated a double victory in the high and triple jump at the Junior South American Championships in Guayaquil and won the silver medal in the long jump at the South American Championships in Barquisimeto with 6.04 m in the long jump behind the Brazilian Keila Costa and with 13.07 m bronze in the triple jump while she was in the high jump competition came fourth with 1.79 m. Then she was at the Pan American Junior Championships in Bridgetown in high and triple jump fourth. In 2004 she won the U23 South American Championships in Barquisimeto with 1.91 m in the high jump and secured silver with 6.05 m in the long jump. In addition, she won the bronze medal at the Ibero-American Championships in Huelva with 1.88 m and thus qualified in the high jump for the Olympic Games in Athens , where she was eliminated with 1.85 m in the qualification . At the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow , 1.81 m was not enough for the finals. She then won the silver medal in the high and long jump at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Cartagena with 1.88 m and 6.36 m respectively. Then she won again with 1.90 m at the South American Championships in Tunja and won the silver medal in the long and triple jump. She also won the U23 South American Championships in Buenos Aires with 6.32 m in the long jump and won silver in both the high and triple jump.

In 2007 she took part in the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro for the first time and was fourth there with a jump of 1.87 m. At the South American Championships in São Paulo she won the third title in a row in the high jump with 1.84 m and also won bronze in the long jump with 6.18 m. At the Ibero-American Championships in Iquique she won silver with 1.85 m, as well as at the CAC Championships in Cali with 1.88 m, in which she was also sixth in the triple jump with 13.04 m. In 2009 she won the South American Championships in Lima with 1.88 m and 13.93 m in the high and triple jump and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Berlin with 1.85 m. Then she won the Juegos Bolivarianos in Sucre in the high and long jump and with 13.96 m silver in the triple jump. The following year she won a silver medal again at the Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando with 14.29 m. At the Central America and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez , she also won the silver medal in the triple jump behind Jamaican Kimberly Williams with a width of 14.10 m . In addition, she was fourth in the long jump with 6.29 m.

Connection to the world's best (2011 to 2014)

In 2011 she won the South American Championships in Buenos Aires with 14.59 m gold in the triple jump and 6.45 m bronze in the long jump. She then took part again in the World Championships in Daegu and, by winning the bronze medal with 14.84 m, behind the Ukrainian Olha Saladucha and Olga Rypakowa from Kazakhstan, moved into the focus of the world's media. In the same year she secured the triple jump title at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with 14.92 m and reached third place in the long jump with a width of 6.63 m. Thereupon she decided to compete exclusively in the triple jump and won at the Olympic Games in London the following year with 14.80 m, the silver medal behind Kazakh Rypakova and only one centimeter ahead of Saladucha, who achieved bronze. The following year, her victory at the World Championships in Moscow, to which she came as a favorite, was just as close . She won the gold medal with a four-centimeter lead over the second-placed Russian Ekaterina Konewa . In 2014 she jumped 15.31 m at the Herculis in Monaco and thus set the still valid (as of 2019) South American record, with which she ranked fifth on the all-time best list. In late summer she won the Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech with 14.52 m and secured her next gold medal with 14.57 m at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Xalapa .

World championship title and Olympic victory (from 2015)

Ibargüen at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing

In 2015, Ibargüen dominated, as in the previous year, international events. So she remained unbeaten in all competitions until the 2017 season. Thus, she defended her title at the World Championships in Beijing with a jump of 14.90 m in the final and previously also won with 15.08 m at the Pan American Games in Toronto . The following year, she lived up to her role as favorite at the Olympic Games and won the final with a jump of 15.17 m in front of the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas and Rypakowa from Kazakhstan. It was not until 2017 that she had to admit defeat at the World Championships in London with 14.89 m of razor-thin Rojas, which was only two centimeters ahead of her in the final . In 2018 she started again in the long and triple jump. She won the gold medal in both competitions at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla with 6.83 m and 14.92 m. At the beginning of September, she secured victories in both disciplines at the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava and improved her own national record by another 20 centimeters with 6.93 m in the long jump. In 2019 Ibargüen was surprisingly only fifth at the Pan American Games in Lima with 6.54 m, as she had already achieved very good results in the long and triple jump during the season. She gave the reason for pain in her foot and also canceled her participation in the triple jump.

Ibargüen lives and trains in Puerto Rico . She is 17 times Colombian champion in high, long and triple jump. From 2013 to 2016 and 2018, she secured the overall ranking of the IAAF Diamond League in the triple jump and in 2018 also in the long jump. With six titles she is the most successful athlete together with the Croatian Sandra Perković . In 2018 she was named world athlete of the year. Until 2019, she also held the Colombian high jump record, which is now held by María Fernanda Murillo .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.93 m, July 22, 2005 in Cali
  • High jump (hall): 1.81 m, March 11, 2006 in Moscow ( Colombian record )
• Long jump: 6.93 m (+0.8 m / s), September 9, 2018 in Ostrava ( Colombian record )
• Triple jump: 15.31 m (0.0 m / s), July 18, 2014 in Monaco ( Colombian record )

Web links

Commons : Caterine Ibargüen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Caterine Ibargüen in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Caterine Ibargüen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Steve Landells: First impressions - Caterine Ibarguen ( English ) IAAF. August 22, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Ibarguen's terrific triple jump of 15.31m in Monaco - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. July 18, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
2. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Ibarguen leaps 14.57m as Cuba dominates athletics at Central American and Caribbean Games ( English ) IAAF. November 30, 2014. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
3. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Report: women's triple jump final - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 14, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
4. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Ibarguen and Arevalo shine in golden day for Colombia at CAC Games ( English ) IAAF. August 2, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
5. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Taylor, Ibarguen and Miller-Uibo lead Americas to victory at IAAF Continental Cup Ostrava 2018 ( English ) IAAF. September 9, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
6. ↑ Silke Bernhart: Unusual defeat for Caterine Ibargüen ( German ) Leichtathletik.de. August 7, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
7. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Ibarguen's hop, step and jump to the top of the world ( English ) IAAF. December 5, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2019.