2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21, 2004 (qualification) August 23, 2004 (final)
Medalists Françoise Mbango Etone ( CMR )   Chrysopigi Devetzi ( GRE )   Tatjana Lebedewa ( RUS )

The women's triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 21 and 23, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Françoise Mbango Etone from Cameroon. She won ahead of the Greek Chrysopigi Devetzi and the Russian Tatjana Lebedewa , who won gold in the long jump four days later .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein were not among the participants.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Teresa Marinowa ( Bulgaria )	15.20 m	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Tatiana Lebedeva ( Russia )	15.18 m	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Ashia Hansen ( Great Britain )	15.00 m	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Mabel Gay ( Cuba )	14.42 m	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Suzette Lee ( Jamaica )	13.89 m	St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Keila Costa ( Brazil )	13.62 m	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Huang Qiuyan ( People's Republic of China )	14.39 m	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Yamilé Aldama ( Sudan )	14.90 m	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Véronique Boyer ( French Polynesia )	12.64 m	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
• All widths are given in meters (m).

qualification

August 21, 2004, 8:35 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.45 m. Since with fifteen athletes even more than twelve three jumpers reached 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	Chrysopigi Devetzi	Greece	15.32	-	-	15.32
2	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	14.89	-	-	14.89
3	Kéné Ndoye	Senegal	14.79	-	-	14.79
4th	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	14.71	-	-	14.71
5	Magdelín Martínez	Italy	14.57	-	-	14.57
6th	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.56	-	-	14.56
7th	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	x	14.54	-	14.54
8th	Yusmay Bicet	Cuba	14.21	14.53	-	14.53
9	Natalia Safronova	Belarus	14.52	-	-	14.52
10	Mariana Solomon	Romania	x	14.29	14.42	14.42
11	Maria Dimitrova	Bulgaria	x	x	14.16	14.16
12	Ineta Radēviča	Latvia	14.12	14.03	14.06	14.12
13	Tiombe Hurd	United States	13.98	13.97	13.93	13.98
14th	Olga Bolsova	Moldova	13.90	13.87	13.64	13.90
15th	Tatyana Bocharova	Kazakhstan	13.18	13.41	13.81	13.81
16	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	x	x	13.79	13.79
17th	Zhang Hao	People's Republic of China	x	13.30	x	13.30

Group B

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Yamilé Aldama	Sudan	14.80	-	-	14.80
2	Huang Qiuyan	People's Republic of China	14.09	14.29	14.66	14.66
3	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	x	14.65	-	14.65
4th	Anna Pyatych	Russia	x	14.62	-	14.62
5	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	14.61	-	-	14.61
6th	Adelina Gavrilă	Romania	14.56	-	-	14.56
7th	Simona La Mantia	Italy	14.00	14.39	x	14.39
8th	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	14.32	14.37	x	14.37
9	Viktoria Gurova	Russia	14.04	x	14.03	14.04
10	Heli Koivula Kruger	Finland	x	13.70	13.98	13.98
11	Anastasiya Juravleva	Uzbekistan	13.64	13.52	13.51	13.64
12	Yuliana Perez	United States	x	13.62	13.51	13.62
13	Liliana Zagacka	Poland	13.36	13.59	13.41	13.59
14th	Tetyana Shurenko	Ukraine	x	13.12	13.55	13.55
15th	Julia Dubina	Georgia	13.36	12.61	12.90	13.36
16	Athanasia Perra	Greece	13.19	x	-	13.19

final

August 23, 2004, 6:45 p.m.

Fifteen athletes had qualified for the final, all of whom had reached the qualifying distance. Two Greek women and two Russian women were represented, as well as one participant each from Algeria, China, Italy, Jamaica, Cameroon, Cuba, Romania, Senegal, Sudan, Ukraine and Belarus.

The favorite was the two-time Russian world champion from 2001 and 2003, Tatjana Lebedewa, who was one of the most promising medal candidates in the long jump that took place four days later and was ultimately to win gold there. Her strongest competitor was the two-time vice world champion Françoise Mbango Etone from Cameroon. After her strong performance in qualifying, the Greek Chrysopigi Devetzi was certainly to be expected in front of her home crowd. The other group of contenders for top positions included the Italian World Cup third Magdelín Martínez and the Russian World Cup fourth Anna Pjatych.

The final started quite nervously, with seven invalid jumps in the first round. To the delight of the audience, Devetzi led with 14.96 m. In lap two, Mbango Etone with 15.30 m and Jamaican Trecia Smith with 15.02 m gave the first results above the 15-meter mark. It was very close after this round. Devetzi, who could not improve at first, was third, followed by the Cuban native Yamilé Aldama, who started here for Sudan, with 14.90 m ahead of the Algerian Baya Rahouli - 14.86 m, the Italian Magdelín Martínez - 14 , 85 m - and Lebedewa 14.84 m. The third round again brought two widths of more than fifteen meters. The leading Mbango Etone jumped 15.02 m and Devetzi now reach 15.14 m, which she improved to second. Smith stayed third, while Lebedewa moved up to fourth with her 14.95 m. In the fourth round, Mbango Etone again demonstrated their superiority with 15.17 m. With the exception of the first invalid attempt, all of her jumps were more than fifteen meters. Devetzi rose to 15.25 m. This brought her within two inches of Mbango Etones best and underpinned her second place. Aldama pushed Lebedewa from fourth place with her 14.99 m. There was only seven centimeters between third place for Smith and fifth for Lebedewa, and each athlete had two tries. Lebedewa used this. In round five, she exceeded Smith's best by two centimeters with her 15.04 m and was third. Tatjana Lebedewa's last jump was 15.14 m, with which she won bronze eleven centimeters behind Chrysopigi Devetzi. The Olympic champion was Françoise Mbango Etone with her 15.30 m from the second round. Fourth place went to Trecia Smith in front of Yamilé Aldama, Baya Rahouli and Magdelín Martínez.

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	x	15.30	15.03	15.17	15.21	15.30	15.30	AF
2	Chrysopigi Devetzi	Greece	14.96	14.49	15.14	15.25	x	14.92	15.25
3	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	x	14.84	14.95	x	15.04	15.14	15.14
4th	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	x	15.02	13.23	x	x	14.70	15.02
5	Yamilé Aldama	Sudan	x	14.90	14.74	14.99	13.92	14.19	14.99
6th	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	14.75	14.86	14.57	14.76	x	14.68	14.86
7th	Magdelín Martínez	Italy	14.70	14.85	14.58	14.50	14.51	14.76	14.85
8th	Anna Pyatych	Russia	14.16	14.58	x	x	x	14.79	14.79
9	Yusmay Bicet	Cuba	x	x	14.57	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			14.57
10	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.07	14.35	14.35				14.35
11	Olga Vasdeki	Greece	14.34	14.08	x				14.34
12	Huang Qiuyan	People's Republic of China	13.85	14.33	14.04				14.33
13	Natalia Safronova	Belarus	14.20	x	14.22				14.22
14th	Kéné Ndoye	Senegal	x	14.09	14.18				14.18
15th	Adelina Gavrilă	Romania	x	x	13.86				13.86

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  Silver medalist Chrysopigi Devetzi from Greece

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  Bronze medalist Tatiana Lebedewa from Russia - four days later also Olympic champion in the long jump

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  The Olympic fifth Yamilé Aldama - here for Sudan at the start

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  The two Italians Simona La Mantia (center., Eliminated in qualification) and Magdelín Martínez (right, in seventh place in the final)

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump , accessed May 14, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on May 14, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 14, 2018

Video

• Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Hrysopiyi Devetzi - Women's triple jump , published July 18, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on May 14, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Central American and Caribbean Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 14, 2018
2. ^ South American Championships (Women) on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 14, 2018
3. ↑ Asian Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 14, 2018
4. ↑ Oceania Championships on gbrathletics.com, accessed May 14, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, triple jump women , accessed on May 14, 2018