The women's

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on 16 and 18 July 2022. 28 athletes from 20 nations entered to the event.

Summary

Coming in to the Championships Yulimar Rojas held all the credentials, World Record, Check. Olympic Champion, Check. Defending Champion, Check and Double Check. World Leader, yes but in her two outings for the season, she nor anybody else had broken 15 metres. Could there be weakness? After jumping 14.60m in the first round, Rojas found herself in an unfamiliar second place behind a 14.89m new world leader from returning two time silver medalist Shanieka Ricketts. As the second jumper, in the second round Rojas settled it. has only been bettered by one other person in history (that was the Championship Record by

Inessa Kravets Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets (née Shulyak, uk, Інеса Миколаївна Кравець; born 5 October 1966) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper and long jumper. She was among the most prominent female triple jumpers during the period that ...

in 1995). With first place virtually settled, the remaining athletes had to look at the other medals.

Tori Franklin Tori Franklin (born October 7, 1992) is an American triple jumper. Tori Franklin is the first American woman to ever medal in the triple jump at a World Athletics Championships (which happened in 2022). Tori Franklin also notably competed in th ...

's first round 14.53m was third place until

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jumped 14.70m to move up. The marks from Ricketts and Pérez held up until Franklin jumped 14.72m in the fifth round to finally claim bronze. To finish things off, Rojas jumped 15.39m on the final jump of the competition, only the #9 jump in history.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 14.32 m.

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Results

Qualification

The qualification round took place on 16 July, in two groups, both starting at 10:29. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 14.40 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.

Final

The final was started on 18 July at 18:20.Final Results
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Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

Triple jump at the World Athletics Championships