World Athletics Championships 1997 / women's triple jump

6th World Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	40 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Athens
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 2nd (qualification) August 4th (final)
Medalists Šárka Kašpárková ( CZE )   Rodica Mateescu ( ROM )   Olena Howorowa ( UKR )

The Athens Olympic Stadium in 2014

The women's triple jump at the 1997 World Athletics Championships was held on August 2nd and 4th, 1997 in the Olympic Stadium in the Greek capital, Athens .

The Czech Olympic third party from 1996 Šárka Kašpárková became world champion . Second place went to the Romanian Rodica Mateescu . Bronze went to Olena Howorowa from Ukraine .

Existing records

World record	15.50 m	Inessa Krawez	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1995
World championship record

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

In the final on August 4th, two national records were set.

• 15.16 m - Rodica Mateescu ( Romania )
• 14.62 m - Olga Vasdeki ( Greece )

doping

There was one doping case in this competition: Oksana Zelinskaya , a Kazakh who was
eliminated in the qualification, was convicted of having doped with ephedrine after her competition and was disqualified.

Since she did not reach the final, there were no particular disadvantages for her competitors in this case.

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.

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	waived
x	invalid
r	Competition not continued (retired)
w	Wind support above the allowable value
NWI	no wind information

qualification

August 2, 1997, 8:20 a.m.

Forty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.25 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the next two athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 14.17 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

Marija Martinović, later Marija Šestak, had no chance with her 13.30 m in qualification

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	14.77	x	14.77 / +0.2	-
2	Betty Lise	France	14.50	13.97 / -0.9	13.81 / +0.3	14.50 / -0.1
3	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.49	14.23 / 0.1	14.49 / 0.3	-
4th	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	14.44	14.17 / +0.4	14.44 / +0.1	-
5	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.39	14.39 / ± 0.0	-	-
6th	Zhanna Gureyeva	Belarus	14.35	x	x	14.35 / +0.3
7th	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	14.35	x	14.35 / +1.1	-
8th	Cynthea Rhodes	United States	14.25	x	13.77 / -1.4	14.25 / +1.0
9	Jelena Donkina	Russia	14.07	13.19 / 0.5	14.07 / +1.0	13.79 / +0.8
10	Natalia Kajukova	Russia	14.06	x	13.90 / +1.5	14.06 / +1.1
11	Ren Ruiping	People's Republic of China	14.06	14.06 / +0.3	x	x
12	Heli Koivula	Finland	13.85 w	13.81 / NWI	13.85 / +2.3	r
13	Suzette Lee	Jamaica	13.82	x	13.82 / +0.3	13.82 / +1.2
14th	Zlatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	13.52	x	12.87 / +1.0	13.52 / -0.3
15th	Jackie Edwards	Bahamas	13.39	x	12.95 / -0.5	13.39 / -0.4
16	Anja Valant	Slovenia	13.36	x	13.36 / +0.6	12.74 / -1.4
17th	Antonella Capriotti	Italy	13.32	13.32 / ± 0.0	x	x
18th	Marija Martinović	Yugoslavia	13.30	12.94 / ± 0.0	12.84 / +1.1	13.30 / +0.3
19th	Cristina Nicolau	Romania	13.25	x	x	13.25 / -1.0
NM	Shonda Swift	United States	ogV	x	x	x
DOP	Oksana Zelinskaya	Kazakhstan

Group B

Yamilé Aldama (photo: 2012) was 14.09 m short of eight centimeters to participate in the final

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m) wind (m / s)	2nd attempt (m) wind (m / s)	3rd attempt (m) wind (m / s)
1	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	14.57	13.63 / -0.2	14.57 / +0.7	-
2	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	14.28 w	13.65 / NWI	13.99 / NWI	14.28 / +2.1
3	Gundega Sproge	Latvia	14.22	14.22 / -0.8	13.73 / ± 0.0	x
4th	Petra Lobinger	Germany	14.17	12.77 / ± 0.0	14.02 / -0.2	14.17 / +1.2
5	Yamilé Aldama	Cuba	14.09	14.09 / ± 0.0	13.80 / 1.4	13.72 / +1.1
6th	Galina Chistjakova	Slovakia	14.02	14.02 / +0.2	x	13.99 / -0.5
7th	Olena Khlusovych	Ukraine	13.87	13.87 / +0.3	13.42 / -0.8	x
8th	Maria Barbosa De Souza	Brazil	13.75	13.51 / 1.1	x	13.75 / -0.5
9	Yelena Stakhova	Belarus	13.71	x	13.54 / +1.7	13.71 / +1.7
10	Barbara Lah	Italy	13.70	13.70 / +0.1	x	x
11	Dorthe Jensen	Denmark	13.69	13.17 / +0.2	x	13.69 / +0.6
12	Michelle Griffith	Great Britain	13.67	x	12.88 / -0.5	13.67 / +0.5
13	Niambi Dennis	United States	13.51	x	13.51 / +0.3	x
14th	Andrea Avila	Argentina	13.45	x	13.45 / +1.1	13.25 / +0.8
15th	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	13.34	13.00 / +0.3	x	13.34 / -0.3
16	Maria Fletschmann	Guatemala	12.18	12.18 / -0.2	x	x
17th	Valérie Guiyoule	France	11.37	x	x	11.37 / -0.4
NM	Cristina Morujão	Portugal	ogV	x	x	x
DNF	Anna Biryukova	Russia		Trial series not ended
DNS	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine

final

World champion Šárka Kašpárková (photo: 2011) , who was  third in the 1996 Olympic Games, did not win her last medal here

August 4, 1997, 7:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1. Vers. (M) Wind (m / s)	2nd vers. (M) wind (m / s)	3rd vers. (M) wind (m / s)	4th verse (m) wind (m / s)	5th verse (m) wind (m / s)	6. Vers. (M) Wind (m / s)
1	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	15.20 WL	14.86 / -0.3	14.65 / -0.4	15.01 / +0.4	x	15.20 / ± 0.0	14.83 / -1.0
2	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	15.16 NO	15.16 / +0.1	x	14.90 / -0.5	14.38 / -1.1	14.84 / -0.2	12.21 / ± 0.0
3	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.67	14.59 / -0.6	14.50 / ± 0.0	x	14.58 / +0.3	14.67 / +0.7	x
4th	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.62 NO	14.39 / -0.9	14.36 / -0.8	14.26 / -1.4	14.46 / +0.6	14.62 / -0.9	14.60 / +0.4
5	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	14.49	13.99 / +1.0	14.36 / +0.6	x	14.41 / +0.5	14.21 / +0.9	14.49 / +0.9
6th	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	14.34	14.34 / +0.9	13.78 / +1.0	x	14.10 / -0.6	14.09 / +1.0	12.54 / -0.3
7th	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	14.06	x	14.06 / -1.1	13.88 / +0.1	13.78 / +0.8	x	x
8th	Betty Lise	France	14.03	13.49 / +1.1	14.02 / -0.1	x	x	14.03 / +0.2	13.77 / +0.6
9	Gundega Sproge	Latvia	13.98	13.65 / -0.8	x	13.98 / -0.8	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Petra Lobinger	Germany	13.86	x	13.64 / +0.4	13.86 / -1.4
11	Cynthea Rhodes	United States	13.79	13.44 / -0.8	13.69 / -0.8	13.79 / -0.4
12	Zhanna Gureyeva	Belarus	13.59	13.59 / +0.7	x	13.45 / -0.8

Video

• Šárka Kašpárková - WCH 1997 Athens on youtube.com, accessed July 6, 2020

Web links

• 6th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed June 9, 2020
• Women Triple Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) on todor66.com, accessed July 6, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women Triple Jump, Athens 1997, p. 327 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English), accessed on July 6, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 6, 2020
2. ^ First doping case of the World Cup , Rhein Zeitung August 10, 1997, accessed on July 6, 2020