1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 23 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 29, 1996 (qualifying) July 31, 1996 (final)
Medalists Inessa Krawez ( UKR )   Inna Lasovskaya ( RUS )   Šárka Kašpárková ( CZE )

The women's triple jump at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 29 and 31, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 31 athletes took part in the Olympic premiere of this discipline of women's athletics.

Ukrainian Inessa Krawez became the first Olympic champion . She won before the Russian Inna Lassowskaja and the Czech Šárka Kašpárková .

The German Petra Lobinger was eliminated in the preliminary round without a valid attempt.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion in 1992	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held
World Champion 1995	Inessa Krawez ( Ukraine )	15.50 m	Gothenburg 1995
European champion in 1994	Anna Birjukowa ( Russia )	14.89 m	Helsinki 1994
Pan American Champion 1995	Laiza Carrillo ( Cuba )	14.09 m	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champion 1995	Olga Cepero ( Cuba )	14.14 m	Guatemala City 1995
South America Champion 1995	Andrea Ávila ( Argentina )	13.34 m	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Ren Ruiping ( People's Republic of China )	13.99 m	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Kéné Ndoye ( Senegal )	12.99 m	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania champion 1994	Shelley Stoddart ( New Zealand )	12.50 m	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	15.50 m	Inessa Krawez ( Ukraine )	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1995
Olympic record	Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held

Remarks:

• All times are local Atlanta time ( UTC − 5 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

July 29, 1996, from 10:30 a.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.20 m. Since exactly twelve jumpers exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was not filled any further.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria	x	14.61	-	14.61
2	Olena Howorova	United States	x	14.60	-	14.60
3	Ren Ruiping	People's Republic of China	x	x	14.56	14.56
4th	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.13	14.48	-	14.48
5	Olena Chlusowitsch	Ukraine	14.38	-	-	14.38
6th	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	14.24	-	-	14.24
7th	Anna Biryukova	Russia	13.81	13.94	14.19	14.19
8th	Galina Chistjakova	Slovakia	14.08	14.14	13.54	14.14
9	Virge Naeris	Estonia	13.94	13.95	14.00	14.00
10	Cynthea Rhodes	United States	x	13.95	13.88	13.95
11	Barbara Lah	Italy	x	13.74	x	13.74
12	Michelle Griffith	Great Britain	13.38	x	13.70	13.70
13	Suzette Lee	Jamaica	13.64	13.65	x	13.65
14th	Nicola Martial	Guyana	12.75	x	12.91	12.91
15th	Vera Bitanji	Albania	12.55	12.82	x	12.82
ogV	Diana Orrange	United States	x	-	-		without space
DNS	Michelle Baptiste	St. Lucia
	Dione Rose	Jamaica

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Inna Lasovskaya	Russia	14.75 OR	-	-	14.75	first OR
2	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	14.57	-	-	14.57
3	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	14.55	-	-	14.55
4th	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	14.42	-	-	14.42
5	Sheila Hudson	United States	14.26	-	-	14.26
6th	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	13.85	14.22	-	14.22
7th	Gundega sprout	Latvia	13.67	x	x	13.67
8th	Natallia Kajukowa	Russia	13.54	13.35	x	13.54
9	Maria Aparecida de Souza	Brazil	13.12	13.38	13.13	13.38
10	Wang Xiongrong	People's Republic of China	x	13.06	13.32	13.32
11	Heli Koivula	Finland	12.43	x	13.25	13.25
12	Althea Gilharry	Belize	x	12.78	12.75	12.78
13	Chantal Ouoba	Burkina Faso	12.40	12.19	12.24	12.40
ogV	Zita Bálint	Hungary	x	x	x		without space
	Petra Lobinger	Germany	x	x	x
	Concepción Paredes	Spain	x	x	x
DNS	Yamilé Aldama	Cuba					injury

final

July 31, 1996, 6:40 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, all of them had exceeded the required qualification distance. Three Ukrainians met one participant each from Bulgaria, China, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Russia, the Czech Republic, the USA and Great Britain.

World record holder and world champion Inessa Krawez from Ukraine was the clear favorite. The Russian World Cup fourth Inna Lasovskaya was also highly rated . There were numerous athletes who were given a chance of top positions, but who did not have the high level of performance of the two favorites before these games.

In the first lap, the Chinese Ren Ruiping jumped 14.30 m, which was enough to take the lead. In the second round, Lissowskaya took the lead with her 14.98 m. Krawez and Bulgarian Iwa Prandschewa both reached 14.84 m in their third attempt and had thus conquered the places behind the still leading Lissowskaya. But the Czech Šárka Kašpárková passed them with 14.98 m, making her the new front runner for the time being, because her second best jump was further than the Lissowskajas, who had previously produced two invalid attempts in addition to her 14.98 m. A change in the ranking only came about in the fifth attempt. Inessa Krawez exceeded the 15-meter mark with 15.33 m and had thus taken the lead. This was enough for the Olympic victory, it should remain the only 15-meter jump in this competition. Second was Inna Lissowskaja, who had the same distance as Kašpárková, but with her fifth jump had a second distance that was one centimeter better than Šárka Kašpárková. The British Ashia Hansen took fourth place ahead of the Greek Olga Vasdeki. Ren Ruiping finished sixth

Bulgaria Iwa Prandschewa, who was fourth after the end of the competition, was convicted of doping with Metandienon and, like later, disqualified in the long jump . Before the following Sydney games , she was banned for life as a repeat offender after another positive doping test.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	x	14.40	14.84	x	15.33 OR	14.75	15.33	OR
2	Inna Lasovskaya	Russia	x	14.98 OR	x	14.66	14.70	14.21	14.98
3	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	x	14.45	14.98 ORe	14.69	x	14.48	14.98
4th	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	13.61	14.49	13.75	14.35	14.24	14.30	14.49
5	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	13.94	14.44	14.39	x	14.17	14.33	14.44
6th	Ren Ruiping	People's Republic of China	14.30	14.11	13.80	13.70	13.75	13.91	14.30
7th	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	x	13.92	14.21	14.07	13.68	x	14.21
8th	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	13.98	14.12	13.88	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			14.12
9	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	x	14.04	14.09				14.09
10	Sheila Hudson	United States	14.02	13.91	13.69				14.02
11	Olena Chlusowitsch	Ukraine	13.81	13.65	-				13.81
DOP	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria	x	x	14.84	14.39	x	14.92	14.92

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 50

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed March 15, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 92, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 15, 2018

Video

• Women's Triple Jump Final Atlanta Olympics 1996 , published June 21, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 799 , accessed on March 15, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 92, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 15, 2018 
3. ↑ Tom Knight in the Telegraph of September 14, 2000 , accessed March 15, 2018