European Athletics Championships 2002 / women's triple jump

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 8th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalists Ashia Hansen ( GBR )   Heli Koivula Kruger ( FIN )   Jelena Oleinikowa ( RUS )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The women's triple jump at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 8 and 10, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

British Ashia Hansen became European champion . She won ahead of the Finn Heli Koivula Kruger . Bronze went to the Russian Jelena Oleinikowa .

Existing records

World record	15.50 m	Inessa Krawez	World Cup Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1995
European record
Championship record	14.89 m	Anna Biryukova	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 8, 1994

With her victorious jump of 15.00 meters, European champion Ashia Hansen surpassed the championship record held by Anna Birjukowa with 14.89 meters. Hansen's width, however, was not ready for the best of the best due to a strong tail wind of 3.1 meters per second.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the respective jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 8, 2002

23 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.10 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 13.87 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Zita Ajkler was eliminated from the qualification with her 13.34 m

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	14.22	-0.2
2	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	13.91	-0.4
3	Anna Pyatych	Russia	13.90	+0.2
4th	Irina Vasilyeva	Russia	13.89	+0.1
5	Biljana Mitrovic	Yugoslavia	13.78	+0.1
6th	Alina Dinu	Romania	13.76	-0.3
7th	Silvia Biondini	Italy	13.76	+0.7
8th	Liliana Zagacka	Poland	13.69	+1.6
9	Anja Valant	Slovenia	13.52	+0.2
10	Camilla Johansson	Sweden	13.45	± 0.0
11	Zita Ajkler	Hungary	13.34	+1.0
12	Virginija Petkevičienė	Lithuania	13.14	+1.5

Group B

Jana Velďákovás 13.78 m was not enough for the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Magdelín Martínez	Italy	14.30	+1.0
2	Elena Oleinikova	Russia	14.15	-0.7
3	Barbara Lah	Italy	14.11	-1.3
4th	Hrisopiyí Devetzí	Greece	14.06	+0.7
5	Cristina Nicolau	Romania	14.02	+0.8
6th	Heli Koivula Kruger	Finland	13.98	-0.7
7th	Olga Bolșova	Moldova	13.96	+1.3
8th	Mihaela Gîndilă	Romania	13.87	-0.1
9	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	13.86	+0.2
10	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	13.78	-0.5
11	Andreja Ribač	Slovenia	13.05	-0.3
DNS	Marija Martinović	Yugoslavia

final

August 10, 2002

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (m) wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	4th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	5th attempt (m) wind (m / s)	6th attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	15.00 / +3.1	14.54 / +0.4	14.60 / +1.3	x	x	x	15.00 / +3.1
2	Heli Koivula Kruger	Finland	14.83 / +2.2	14.83 / +2.2	14.67 / +3.1	x	14.24 / +0.9	14.07 / +0.6	x
3	Elena Oleinikova	Russia	14.54 / +0.8	x	14.21 / +0.8	14.40 / +1.3	14.52 / +0.8	x	14.54 / +0.8
4th	Mihaela Gîndilă	Romania	14.43 / +1.7	14.18 / +0.5	14.14 / +1.0	14.43 / +1.7	x	14.41 / +1.4	14.06 / +1.4
5	Cristina Nicolau	Romania	14.39 / +0.4	14.19 / +1.9	13.99 / +0.9	14.39 / +0.4	14.27 / +1.2	14.23 / +0.9	x
6th	Magdelín Martínez	Italy	14.27 / +3.1	x	13.98 / +1.0	14.27 / +3.1	14.09 / +1.8	14.25 / +1.2	x
7th	Hrisopiyí Devetzí	Greece	14.15 / +1.5	x	14.15 / +1.5	x	13.51 / +0.8	x	13.81 / +0.8
8th	Anna Pyatych	Russia	14.08 / +1.5	x	13.34 / +2.4	14.08 / +1.5	x	11.98 / +1.5	x
9	Olga Bolșova	Moldova	14.03 / -0.7	14.03 / -0.7	13.71 / +1.0	13.64 / +0.2	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Barbara Lah	Italy	14.02 / +1.1	x	14.02 / +1.1	x
11	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	13.82 / +1.1	13.58 / +1.1	13.82 / +1.1	13.11 / +1.2
12	Irina Vasilyeva	Russia	13.55 / +0.9	13.55 / +0.9	13.44 / +0.7	x

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  Magdelín Martínez (right) reached sixth place

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  Hrisopiyí Devetzí came in seventh place - she later won medals at major international events, but was also involved in doping affairs and therefore had to give some medals back

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  Anna Pjatych finished eighth - later, she won bronze as each World Cup -Third 2005 and EM -Third 2006 , it was detected for the subsequent time doping practices

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 6, 2019
• European Championship 2002 Munich, Women Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed on November 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on November 6, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Triple Jump European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 487 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on November 6, 2019
• 18º Campeonato de Europa - Munich (GER) . Spanish, p. 12 (PDF, 146 kB) on rfea.es, accessed on November 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, triple jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on November 6, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on November 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump women , accessed November 6, 2019
2. ↑ Christian Fuchs, triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetzi blocked on dlv-sport.de, originally on Leichtathletik.de November 20, 2011, accessed on November 6, 2019
3. ^ IOC sanctions 16 athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008 on olympic.org November 17, 2016, accessed November 6, 2019
4. ↑ Arne Lichtenberg, Russian triple jumper Pjatych blocked on deutschlandfunk.de August 18, 2017, accessed on November 6, 2019