2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 22, 2000 (qualification) September 24, 2000 (final)
Medalists Teresa Marinowa ( BUL )   Tatjana Lebedewa ( RUS )   Olena Howorowa ( UKR )

The women's triple jump at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22nd and 24th, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 27 athletes took part.

The Bulgarian Teresa Marinowa became Olympic champion . She won ahead of the Russian Tatiana Lebedewa and the Ukrainian Olena Howorowa .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 1996	Inessa Krawez ( Ukraine )	15.33 m	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Paraskevi Tsiamita ( Greece )	14.88 m	Seville 1999
European Champion 1998	Olga Vasdeki ( Greece )	14.55 m	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Yamilé Aldama ( Cuba )	14.77 m	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999	Anna-Maria Thorpe ( Barbados )	12.77 m	Bridgetown 1999
South America Champion 1999	Luciana dos Santos ( Brazil )	13.90 m	Bogotá 1999
Asian Champion 2000	Elena Parfjonowa ( Kazakhstan )	14.08 m	Jakarta 2000
African champion 2000	Baya Rahouli ( Algeria )	14.23 m	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Tatum Rickard ( New Zealand )	11.87 m	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	15.50 m	Inessa Krawez ( Ukraine )	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1995
Olympic record	15.33 m		Atlanta Final , USA	July 31, 1996

Remarks:

• All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

September 22, 2000, 8:00 p.m.

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.25 m. Since only nine athletes exceeded this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). To take part in the finals, a width of 13.98 m had to be achieved.

Group A

Marija Martinović from Yugoslavia reached thirteenth place in qualification with 13.49 m and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	14.73	-	-	14.73
2	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	x	x	14.29	14.29
3	Yamilé Aldama	Cuba	13.88	14.27	-	14.27
4th	Oksana Rogova	Russia	x	x	14.25	14.25
5	Cristina Nicolau	Romania	13.90	14.14	x	14.14
6th	Viktoria Brigadnaya	Turkmenistan	13.96	13.60	x	13.96
7th	Kéné Ndoye	Senegal	x	13.94	13.75	13.94
8th	Natallja Safronawa	Belarus	x	13.91	13.73	13.91
9	Maria Dimitrova	Bulgaria	13.55	13.80	13.87	13.87
10	Camilla Johansson	Sweden	13.87	13.76	x	13.87
11	Olena Chlusowitsch	Ukraine	13.60	x	13.08	13.60
12	Elena Parfionova	Kazakhstan	13.50	x	13.28	13.50
13	Marija Martinović	Yugoslavia	13.48	x	13.49	13.49
14th	Nicole Gamble	United States	11.43	13.32	13.33	13.33

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	11.71	14.91	-	14.91
2	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.76	-	-	14.76
3	Anja Valant	Slovenia	14.36	-	-	14.36
4th	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	14.01	x	14.34	14.34
5	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.26	-	-	14.26
6th	Françoise Mbango	Cameroon	14.13	x	13.81	14.13
7th	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	13.98	13.84	13.93	13.98
8th	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	13.50	13.55	13.76	13.76
9	Inna Lasovskaya	Russia	x	x	13.75	13.75
10	Keisha Spencer	Jamaica	13.39	x	13.49	13.49
11	Luciana dos Santos	Brazil	13.33	x	13.48	13.48
12	Ren Ruiping	People's Republic of China	x	11.46	13.16	13.16
13	Anna Tarasova	Kazakhstan	13.11	12.71	13.02	13.11

final

September 24, 2000, 7:40 p.m.

Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, nine of them beyond the qualification range. another three about their placements. Two Russians competed against one participant each from Algeria, Bulgaria, Greece, Cameroon, Cuba, Romania, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Great Britain.

Among the favorites were the Cuban Vice World Champion Yamilé Aldama, the Greek European Champion and World Cup third Olga Vasdeki, the Russian World Cup fourth Tatjana Lebedewa, the Bulgarian European Championship third Teresa Marinowa and the Czech 1997 World Champion Šárka Kašpárková.

In the first lap Marinowa achieved an excellent distance of 15.20 m and thus took the lead. With 14.96 m the Ukrainian Olena Howorowa followed in second place. Only in the fourth round did Lebedewa get a medal rank. 14.91 m meant third place at that time. In the fifth attempt Lebedewa improved to 15.00 m and displaced Howorowa from second place. Teresa Marinowa did not succeed in another valid jump until the end, her distance from the first attempt was enough for the Olympic victory. Tatiana Lebedewa won the silver medal and Olena Howorowa received bronze. Places four to six went to Cuban Yamilé Aldama, Baya Rahouli from Algeria and Romanian Cristina Nicolau.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	15.20 NO	x	x	x	x	x	15.20	NO
2	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	14.77	14.66	14.45	14.91	15.00	14.90	15.00
3	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.96	x	14.74	14.78	14.69	14.74	14.96
4th	Yamilé Aldama	Cuba	x	14.22	14.30	x	14.06	13.92	14.30
5	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	13.92	x	14.17	14.11	13.95	13.95	14.17
6th	Cristina Nicolau	Romania	13.99	x	14.01	x	13.51	14.17	14.17
7th	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.06	x	12.81	x	14.15	x	14.15
8th	Oksana Rogova	Russia	13.90	13.97	x	13.71	x	13.95	13.97
9	Anja Valant	Slovenia	x	x	13.59	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			13.59
10	Françoise Mbango	Cameroon	x	13.53	x				13.53
11	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	x	x	13.44				13.44
ogV	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	x	x	x					without space

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  Silver medalist Tatiana Lebedewa from Russia

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  The Cuban Olympic gold medalist Yamilé Aldama

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  Šárka Kašpárková from the Czech Republic reached the final, where she failed to make a valid jump

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed April 15, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 15, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 15, 2018

Video

• Tereza Marinova - Sidney 200 , published February 14, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed April 15, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 799 , accessed on April 15, 2018