These are the official results of the Women's Triple Jump event at the

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in Atlanta, Georgia. There were a total number of 31 competitors, with one non-starter. It took 14.22m to get into the final. The key players from the previous year's world championships which had rewritten the record books were all in attendance. World record holder Inessa Kravets put out a long first jump, but it wasn't measured as it was ruled a foul. The first round leader was

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with a 14.30m. The only other jumper over 14 meters in the first round was

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at 14.02m. The second round advanced the distances significantly.

Inna Lasovskaya Inna Alexandrovna Lasovskaya (russian: Инна Александровна Ласовская; born 17 December 1969) is a retired triple jumper from Russia. She won a gold medal at the 1994 European Athletics Indoor Championships, ahead of compatri ...

jumped 14.98m to take a commanding lead.

Ashia Hansen Ashia Hansen, (born 5 December 1971) is a retired British triple jumper. Fourth in the 1996 Olympic final, she broke the world indoor record when winning the 1998 European Indoor title, and went on to win gold medals at the World Indoor Cha ...

jumped her best of the day 14.49m to pull into second, but in total, five women jumped over 14.40m in the second round. In the third round

Šárka Kašpárková Šárka Kašpárková (, born 20 May 1971) is a Czech Republic, Czech former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump. She attended her first Summer Olympics in 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992, participating in th ...

equalled Lasovskaya with a 14.98m and with a 14.45m in the second round, Kašpárková held the tiebreaker. Iva Prandzheva and Kravets both produced 14.84m's in the round to play in bronze medal territory, with Kravets holding the tiebreaker 14.40m from the second round. In the fourth round Lasovskaya and Kašpárková continued to spar, first Lasovskaya jumping 14.66m to take the tiebreaker edge, answered by Kašpárková's 14.69m. Prandzheva jumped 14.39m but still never got into third place. The fifth round settled the medals as Lasovskaya jumped 14.70m to edge ahead on the tiebreaker. Then Kravets bounded down the runway, almost making the pit on her step phase, landing at , to date the second longest jump in history only to her world record. Iva Prandzheva from Bulgaria, ranking 4th with 14.92, was disqualified because of doping.

Medalists

Results

Qualification

Qualification Rules: Qualifying performance 14.20 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Final

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