Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump


The Women's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 13–14 August.

Summary

Before the competition, 2015 World Champion Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia had the longest jump of the season with 15.04 m. Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova entered as the defending Olympic champion from 2012 and had been the first athlete to beat Ibargüen that year, ending her rival's 34-meet-long winning streak. Twenty-year-old Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas was the only other athlete over fifteen metres that season and had won the 2016 World Indoor Championships. The remaining top challengers formed the 2016 European Championships podium – Patricia Mamona of Portugal, Greek jumper Paraskeví Papahrístou, and 2015 world medallist Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko of Israel.
Ibargüen topped qualifying with her sole jump of 14.52 m. Papahrístou and Rypakova were the only other automatic qualifiers, both requiring two attempts. It took 14.08 m to make the final. All the main contenders progressed with Germany's Kristin Gierisch and Finn Kristiina Mäkelä posting the next best marks. A 2012 Olympic medallist and former world champion, Olha Saladuha of Ukraine, failed to progress.
In the final, on the third jump of the competition, Keturah Orji took the lead with an American record. Four jumps later, defending champion Olga Rypakova edged ahead with 14.73 m. The final jumper in every round of the competition, Caterine Ibargüen moved into bronze medal position with 14.65 m. In the second round, Ibargüen took the lead she would never relinquish, with a 15.03 m. In the third round Yulimar Rojas jumped 14.87 m to take over the silver medal position she would not relinquish. Rojas jumped her best in the fourth round, and Ibargüen followed that with her best of. In the fifth round, Rypakova jumped her best of 14.74 m but the tiny improvement was not enough to improve the color of her medal.

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times. At least the top twelve athletes moved on to the final; if more than twelve reached the qualifying distance, all who did so advanced. Distances were reset for the final round. Finalists jumped three times, after which the eight best jumped three more times.

Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time
DateTimeRound
Saturday, 13 August 201609:40Qualifications
Sunday, 14 August 201620:55Finals

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record15.50 mGöteborg, Sweden10 August 1995
Olympic record15.39 mBeijing, China17 August 2008

The following national records were established during the competition:
CountryAthleteRoundDistanceNotes
United StatesFinal14.71 m
PortugalFinal14.65 m

Results

Qualifying round

Progression rules: Qualifying performance 14.30 or at least 12 best performers advance to the Final
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BCaterine Ibargüen14.5214.52
2AParaskevi Papachristou13.8314.4314.43
3BOlga Rypakova14.1014.3914.39
4BKristin Gierisch13.9713.8114.2614.26
5AKristiina Mäkelä13.7314.0114.2414.24,
6BKimberly Williams14.1914.0314.2214.22
7AYulimar Rojas14.2113.7912.8914.21
8AHanna Knyazyeva-Minenkoxx14.2014.20
9BPatrícia Mamona13.8014.0714.1814.18
10BAnna Jagaciak-Michalska14.0414.13x14.13
11ASusana Costa13.7013.7214.1214.12
12BKeturah Orjix14.08x14.08
13AJenny Elbe14.0013.8514.0214.02
14AShanieka Thomas13.9513.9514.0214.02
15BChristina Epps14.01xx14.01
16AElena Panțuroiu14.00x13.6814.00
17BDana Velďáková13.7413.98x13.98
18BOlha Saladuha13.7713.9713.6113.97
19AJeanine Assani Issouf13.51x13.9713.97
20AYosiri Urrutia13.6713.95x13.95
21AAndrea Geubelle13.67x13.9313.93
22BGabriela Petrovax13.5013.9213.92
23BNúbia Soaresx13.8113.8513.85
24AKeila Costax13.6213.7813.78
25ALiadagmis Povea13.6013.6313.5513.63
26ARuslana Tsykhotska13.1613.1913.6313.63
27BAna José Tima13.6113.5913.2813.61
28BDariya Derkach13.1913.5513.5613.56
29BYekaterina Ektova13.3813.3113.5113.51
30BCristina Bujinxx13.3813.38
31BIryna Vaskouskaya12.8513.3513.2313.35
32APatricia Sarrapio13.35xx13.35
33AIrina Ektovax13.1713.3313.33
34BLi Xiaohong13.30x13.2513.30
35ANatallia Viatkinax13.1413.2513.25
36BJoëlle Mbumi Nkouindjin13.1112.3312.5813.11
37AThea LaFond12.82xx12.82

Final