2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Women)

sport	athletics
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Attendees	36 athletes from 26 countries
Competition phase	15./17. August 2008
Medalist
gold	Françoise Mbango Etone ( CMR )
silver	Olga Rypakowa ( KAZ )
bronze	Yargelis Savigne ( CUB )

The triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 15 and 17, 2008. 36 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Françoise Mbango Etone from Cameroon. The Kazakh Olga Rypakowa won the silver medal, bronze went to the Cuban Yargelis Savigne .

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion 2004	Françoise Mbango Etone ( Cameroon )	15.30 m	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Yargelis Savigne ( Cuba )	15.28 m	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Tatiana Lebedeva ( Russia )	15.15 m	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Yargelis Savigne ( Cuba )	14.80 m	Rio de Janeiro 2007
2008 Central American and Caribbean Champion	Mabel Gay ( Cuba )	14.19 m	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007	Keila Costa ( Brazil )	14.57 m	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Olga Rypakowa ( Kazakhstan )	14.69 m	Amman 2007
African champion 2004	Françoise Mbango Etone ( Cameroon )	14.76 m	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Monique Lafaialii ( Papua New Guinea )	10.20 m	Saipan 2008

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

doping

There were also two doping cases in the women's triple jump . Two athletes were affected who also took part in the long jump five days later and whose results were canceled there as well as here in the triple jump.

• Tatiana Lebedeva , Russia. She was convicted during follow-up investigations into doping abuse. In January 2017 she was stripped of her silver medals in long and triple jump .
• Chrysopigi Devetzi , Greece. Her results in the long and triple jump were also canceled following follow-up examinations in January 2017 for doping abuse. In the long jump she was eliminated in the qualification, in the triple jump she had initially won bronze.

The athletes placed in the final after Lebedewa and Devetzi moved up two places in the official ranking. It was no longer possible for the Serbian Biljana Topić and the Frenchwoman Teresa Nzola Meso to retrospectively realize the final participation, which was prevented by Lebedewa's and Devetzi's doping fraud. In addition, the Ukrainian Olha Saladucha and the Estonian Kaire Leibak would have been eligible to start three more attempts in the final of the eight best jumpers.

qualification

August 15, 2008, 9:40 pm

The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.45 m. Since only eight athletes reached this distance (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best athletes from both groups to twelve participants (highlighted in light green). To take part, 14.18 m had to be achieved. The eight jumpers who qualified directly for the final also included the two doping fraudsters Lebedewa and Devetzi, so that ultimately only ten athletes made it into the final ranking.

Group A

The French Teresa Nzola Meso retires with 14.11 m as the seventh of her qualification group

The Cuban Mabel Gay does not reach the final with her 14.09 m as eighth of her qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	14.37 m	14.99 m	-	14.99 m
2	Viktoria Gurova	Russia	14.44 m	14.78 m	-	14.78 m
3	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	14.64 m	-	-	14.64 m
4th	Anna Pyatych	Russia	x	14.45 m	-	14.45 m
5	Marija Šestak	Slovenia	x	14.44 m	x	14.44 m
6th	Biljana Topić	Serbia	x	14.11 m	14.14 m	14.14 m	actually qualified for the final
7th	Teresa Nzola Meso	France	14.11 m	14.11 m	13.96 m	14.11 m
8th	Mabel Gay	Cuba	x	x	14.09 m	14.09 m
9	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	14.02 m	x	x	14.02 m
10	Svitlana Mamieieva	Ukraine	13.73 m	13.89 m	14.01 m	14.01 m
11	Magdelín Martínez	Italy	x	14.00 m	13.77 m	14.00 m
12	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	13.60 m	x	13.97 m	13.97 m
13	Gita Dodowa	Bulgaria	x	13.47 m	13.53 m	13.53 m
14th	Erica Ashley McLain	United States	x	13.52 m	x	13.52 m
15th	Elena Parfionova	Ukraine	13.46 m	x	13.38 m	13.46 m
16	Chinonye Ohadugha	Nigeria	12.92 m	12.86 m	13.29 m	13.29 m
17th	Kseniya Dziatsuk	Belarus	13.08 m	12.79 m	x	13.08 m
ogV	Athanasia Perra	Greece	x	x	x		without space

Group B

12.92 m is far too little for Kazakh Irina Ektowa to reach the final

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	Expanse	annotation
1	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	14.50 m	-	-	14.50 m
2	Olha Saladucha	Ukraine	14.46 m	-	-	14.46 m
3	Xie Limei	People's Republic of China	13.38 m	14.27 m	14.01 m	14.27 m
4th	Kaire Leibak	Estonia	14.19 m	14.07	x	14.19 m
5	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	14.18 m	x	x	14.18 m
6th	Adelina Gavrilă	Romania	13.98 m	13.71 m	13.55 m	13.98 m
7th	Yarianna Martínez	Cuba	13.76 m	13.98 m	13.83 m	13.96 m
8th	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	13.80 m	13.57 m	13.87 m	13.87 m
9	Gisele de Oliveira	Brazil	x	13.81 m	x	13.81 m
10	Lilija Kulyk	Ukraine	13.53 m	13.66 m	13.39 m	13.66 m
11	Shani Marks	United States	13.20 m	13.44 m	x	13.44 m
12	Anastasiya Uravleva	Uzbekistan	13.36 m	x	x	13.36 m
13	Irina Ektova	Kazakhstan	x	12.92 m	12.91 m	12.92 m
ogV	Yamilé Aldama	Sudan	x	x	x		without space
	Martina Šestáková	Czech Republic	x	x	x
	Jana Velďáková	Slovakia	x	x	x
DOP	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia					in the final, later disqualified
	Chrysopigi Devetzi	Greece

final

August 17, 2008, 9:35 pm

Ten athletes had qualified for the final, six of them by qualifying distance and another four by their placements. Two Russian women and one participant each from China, Estonia, Jamaica, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Slovenia and Ukraine were represented. There were also the Russian Tatjana Lebedewa and the Greek Chrysopigi Devetzi, who were both disqualified for doping abuse almost nine years after this competition .

The favorites were both athletes who were disqualified in the course of follow-up controls, whose performance is no longer described in the following due to their disqualification. Other athletes who started with good prospects included the 2004 Olympic champion Françoise Mbango Etone from Cameroon, the Cuban Yargelis Savigne as world champion from 2007 , vice world champion from 2005 and Olympic third from 2004, the Jamaican world champion from 2005 and Olympian from 2004 Trecia Smith, the Russian World Cup third in 2005 and European Cup third Anna Pjatych as well as the Ukrainian Olha Saladucha as World Cup fifth in 2007 and EM fourth.

In the final there were two jumps over 15 meters in the first round. Mbango Etone led with 15.19 m in front of the Slovenian Marija Šestak, who set a new national record with 15.03 m. Pjatych was third with 14.67 m, ahead of Russian Viktorija Gurowa with 14.38 m. On lap two, Mbango Etone climbed another eight inches. Her 15.39 m meant a new Olympic record and a new African record . Savigne - 14.87 m, thus third, and Rypakowa - 14.83 m, thus fourth - had their first valid jumps. Pjatych improved to 14.73 m, but fell back to fifth place, Šestak remained second. In round three, Rypakowa moved past Savigne to third place with 14.93 m. Gurowa scored 14.77 m and was fifth ahead of Pjatych. There were more jumps of more than fifteen meters on lap four. Savigne reached 15.05 m, Rypakowa jumped 15.03 m. Mbango Etone was leading, but behind it it was extremely close. Savigne was now second, two centimeters ahead of Rypakowa in third and Šestak in fourth. In the next series of tests, Rypakowa countered again with a jump to 15.11 m. That was the decision, the Kazakh had set a new Asian record. After that there were no more changes.

Françoise Mbango Etone repeated her success from Athens as Olympic champion . Olga Rypakowa won silver and Yargelis Savigne bronze. Marija Šestak took fourth place. Viktorija Gurowa was fifth ahead of Anna Pjatych. The competition was characterized by a very high level despite the withdrawal of the results of two jumpers. The athletes in the first four places had exceeded the 15-meter mark, a new Olympic record was set, the world record was only eleven centimeters short. There were also two new continental records and one new national record.

Particularly affected by Lebedewas and Devetzi doping fraud were Olga Rypakowa and Yargelis Savigne, who had to assume that they had not received a medal for almost nine years. Subsequent handing over of the silver or bronze medal after this long period is only a weak compensation.

Both the second-placed Olga Rypakowa from Kazakhstan and the third-placed Yargelis Savigne from Cuba won the first Olympic medals for their countries in the women's triple jump .

space	Surname	nation	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt	Bottom line	annotation
1	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15.19 m	15.39 m	x	14.82 m	x	14.88 m	15.39 m	OR / ER
2	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	x	14.83 m	14.93 m	15.03 m	15.11 m	x	15.11 m	AS
3	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	x	14.87 m	14.77 m	15.05 m	x	14.91 m	15.05 m
4th	Marija Šestak	Slovenia	15.03 m	14.65 m	x	14.46 m	14.47 m	14.75 m	15.03 m	NO
5	Viktoria Gurova	Russia	14.38 m	14.04 m	14.77 m	x	14.65 m	x	14.77 m
6th	Anna Pyatych	Russia	14.67 m	14.73 m	14.57 m	x	14.67 m	14.28 m	14.73 m
7th	Olha Saladucha	Ukraine	12.78 m	14.70 m	11.29 m	not in the final of the eight best jumpers			14.70 m	actually qualified for the final of the top eight
8th	Kaire Leibak	Estonia	12.19 m	14.13 m	x				14.13 m
9	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	14.12 m	13.75 m	x				14.12 m
10	Xie Limei	People's Republic of China	14.09 m	13.94 m	13.67 m				14.09 m
DOP	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia								disqualified almost nine years after this competition was held
	Chrysopigi Devetzi	Greece

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  Kazakh Olga Rypakowa wins the silver medal

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  Bronze medalist Yargelis Savigne from Cuba

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  The Slovenian Olympic champion Marija Šestak

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  The Russian Anna Pjatych takes sixth place

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  The Ukrainian Olha Saladucha comes in seventh

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  The Olympic eighth Kaire Leibak from Estonia

Web links

• SportsReference triple jump women , accessed July 3, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed July 3, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on July 3, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's Triple Jump Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 17, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed July 3, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 8, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 8, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 8, 2018
5. ↑ IAAF world records, triple jump women , accessed on July 3, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008 . Report on olympic.org dated January 25, 2017 (English), accessed on June 29, 2018