2012 Summer Olympics / Athletics - Triple Jump (Women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 35 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 2012 (qualification) August 5, 2012 (final) |
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The women's triple jump at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 3rd and 5th, 2012 at the Olympic Stadium in London . 35 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Kazakh Olga Rypakowa . The Colombian Caterine Ibargüen won the silver medal, bronze went to the Ukrainian Olha Saladucha .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion | Françoise Mbango Etone ( Cameroon ) | 15.39 m | Beijing 2008 |
world champion | Olha Saladucha ( Ukraine ) | 14.94 m | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | 14.99 m | Helsinki 2012 | |
Central America and Caribbean champion | Ayanna Alexander ( Trinidad and Tobago ) | 13.50 m | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America Champion | Caterine Ibargüen ( Colombia ) | 14.59 m | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Xie Limei ( People's Republic of China ) | 14.58 m | Kobe 2011 |
African champion | Sarah Nambawa ( Uganda ) | 13.90 m | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania champion | Nneka Okpala ( New Zealand ) | 12.85 m | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Inessa Krawez ( Ukraine ) | 15.50 m | Gothenburg , Sweden | August 10, 1995 |
Olympic record | Françoise Mbango Etone ( Cameroon ) | 15.39 m | Beijing Final , People's Republic of China | August 17, 2008 |
Remarks:
- All times in this article are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
- All widths are noted in meters (m).
Doping and Exclusions
In March 2017, the Russian Viktorija Valyukevich , who initially ranked eighth, was subsequently disqualified for doping abuse.
The Romania Patrícia Mamona, who with her 14.11 m could have participated in the final, and the Cuban Yargelis Savigne, who would have allowed three more attempts in the final, were affected by this cheating.
Even before the games, the Greek Paraskevi Papachristou was banned from the Greek NOK because of a racist comment on Twitter .
qualification
August 3, 2012, 10:25 am
The qualification was carried out in two groups. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.40 m. Since only four jumpers exceeded 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). In the end, 14.16 m were necessary to reach the final. In the end, however, only eleven athletes made it into the final ranking, as one of these athletes was doped.
Group A
August 3, 2012
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Kimberly Williams | Jamaica | 14.53 | - | - | 14.53 | |
2 | Yamilé Aldama | Great Britain | 14.45 | - | - | 14.45 | |
3 | Olha Saladucha | Ukraine | 14.26 | 14.35 | x | 14.35 | |
4th | Tatiana Lebedeva | Russia | 14.17 | 14.30 | - | 14.30 | |
5 | Dana Velďáková | Slovakia | x | 14.22 | 13.84 | 14.22 | |
6th | Marija Šestak | Slovenia | x | 14.16 | 14.12 | 14.16 | |
7th | Hanna Demidowa | Ukraine | 13.97 | x | x | 13.97 | |
8th | Josleidy Ribalta | Cuba | 13.71 | 13.12 | 13.88 | 13.88 | |
9 | Niki Panetta | Greece | x | 13.66 | 13.63 | 13.66 | |
10 | Amanda Smock | United States | x | 13.43 | 13.61 | 13.61 | |
11 | Aleksandra Kotlyarova | Uzbekistan | 13.33 | x | 13.55 | 13.55 | |
12 | Li Yanmei | People's Republic of China | 13.43 | 12.78 | 13.15 | 13.43 | |
13 | Irina Litvinenko-Ektowa | Kazakhstan | 13.39 | x | x | 13.39 | |
14th | Andriana Banowa | Bulgaria | x | 12.88 | 13.33 | 13.33 | |
ogV | Cristina Bujin | Romania | x | x | x | - | without space |
Ksenija Dziazuk | Belarus | x | x | x | |||
DOP | Viktoria Valyukevich | Russia | 14.09 | 14.19 | 13.86 | 14.19 | admitted to the finals |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Olga Rypakova | Kazakhstan | x | 13.99 | 14.79 | 14.79 | |
2 | Caterine Ibargüen | Colombia | 14.24 | 14.42 | - | 14.42 | |
3 | Hanna Knjasjewa | Ukraine | 14.33 | x | x | 14.33 | |
4th | Trecia Smith | Jamaica | x | 14.31 | x | 14.31 | |
5 | Yargelis Savigne | Cuba | 14.22 | 14.28 | 14.02 | 14.28 | |
6th | Patrícia Mamona | Portugal | 14.11 | 13.97 | 13.96 | 14.11 | actually qualified for the final |
7th | Ayanna Alexander | Trinidad and Tobago | 13.98 | 13.92 | 14.09 | 14.09 | |
8th | Dailenys Alcántara | Cuba | 13.97 | 13.60 | x | 13.97 | |
9 | Veronika Mosina | Russia | 13.72 | 13.56 | 13.96 | 13.96 | |
10 | Simona La Mantia | Italy | 13.77 | 13.92 | 13.73 | 13.92 | |
11 | Keila Costa | Brazil | x | 13.69 | 13.84 | 13.84 | better second width compared to Bolshakova |
12 | Svetlana Bolshakova | Belgium | 13.84 | 13.42 | 13.45 | 13.84 | |
13 | Mayookha Johny | India | 13.77 | 13.68 | 13.62 | 13.77 | |
14th | Xie Limei | People's Republic of China | 13.63 | x | 13.69 | 13.69 | |
15th | Biljana Topić | Serbia | x | x | 13.66 | 13.66 | |
16 | Patricia Sarrapio | Spain | x | 13.64 | x | 13.64 | |
17th | Anastasiya Juravlyova | Uzbekistan | 13.54 | x | x | 13.54 | |
18th | Athanasia Perra | Greece | x | x | 11.93 | 11.93 |
final
August 5, 2012, 7:35 pm
Twelve athletes had qualified for the final, four of them beyond the qualification range. another eight about their placements. However, only eleven jumpers made it to the final score because one participant was doped. Two Ukrainians and two Jamaicans fought for the medals together with one athlete each from Great Britain, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Cuba, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Then there was the doped Russian.
The favorites were the medalists of the 2011 World Championships : World Champion Olha Saladucha from Ukraine, Vice World Champion Olga Rypakowa from Kazakhstan and third Caterine Ibargüen from Colombia. The Cuban Yargelis Savigne was also highly rated.
Rypakowa took the lead in the first lap with 14.54 m before Ibargüen with 14.45 m. In the second attempt Saladucha improved to 14.48 m and thus passed Ibargüen. However, she was behind her compatriot Hanna Knjasjewa, who had reached 14.56 m, in third place. In the third round, Rypakowa extended their lead to 14.98 m, Ibargüen scored 14.67 m and moved to second position in front of Knjasjewa and Saladucha, who scored 14.53 m in the fourth round, but could not improve their placement . The fifth round showed no change in the ranking. In the last attempt Ibargüen came to 14.80 m, while Saladucha with 14.79 m still overtook Knjasjewa, but missed the silver medal by two centimeters. With the same distance, Ibargüen would have stayed in second place due to her better second distance.
Olga Rypakowa won the first medal and Kazakhstan's first Olympic gold in the women's triple jump .
Caterine Ibargüen was the first Colombian medalist in this discipline.
space | Surname | nation | 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | Expanse | annotation |
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1 | Olga Rypakova | Kazakhstan | 14.54 | x | 14.98 | x | 14.89 | 14.40 | 14.98 | |
2 | Caterine Ibargüen | Colombia | 14.45 | 13.99 | 14.67 | 14.37 | 14.35 | 14.80 | 14.80 | |
3 | Olha Saladucha | Ukraine | 13.92 | 14.48 | x | 14.53 | 14.51 | 14.79 | 14.79 | |
4th | Hanna Knjasjewa | Ukraine | x | 14.56 | 14.16 | 14.14 | 14.16 | x | 14.56 | |
5 | Yamilé Aldama | Great Britain | 14.10 | 14.09 | 14.39 | 14.32 | 14.43 | 14.48 | 14.48 | |
6th | Kimberly Williams | Jamaica | 14.35 | x | 14.48 | 14.19 | x | 14.20 | 14.48 | |
7th | Trecia Smith | Jamaica | x | x | 14.35 | 14.34 | 13.74 | x | 14.35 | |
8th | Yargelis Savigne | Cuba | 14.12 | 12.13 | 13.91 | not in the final of the eight best jumpers |
14.12 | actually entitled to 3 more jumps | ||
9 | Tatiana Lebedeva | Russia | 14.11 | 14.03 | 14.01 | 14.11 | ||||
10 | Marija Šestak | Slovenia | 13.84 | 13.98 | 13.98 | 13.98 | ||||
11 | Dana Velďáková | Slovakia | x | x | 11.92 | 11.92 | ||||
DOP | Viktoria Valyukevich | Russia |
Web links
- SportsReference triple jump , accessed September 24, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 24, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 24, 2018
Video
- Olga Rypakova (KAZ) Wins Triple Jump Gold - Highlights, London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 6, 2012, accessed September 24, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 799 (English)
- ↑ a b Three more Russian women doped at the 2012 Olympics on orf.at March 22, 2017, accessed on September 24, 2018
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt on July 26, 2012 , accessed on September 24, 2018