The Women's triple jump competition at the

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on 3–5 August. Greece's

Paraskevi Papachristou Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou ( ; born 17 April 1989) is a former Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third place at the 2016 World indoor Championships. She wa ...

was sent home by the national delegation for comments she made on Twitter. Four athletes achieved the automatic qualifier, Kimberly Williams and home team favorite

Yamilé Aldama Yamilé Aldama Pozo (; born 14 August 1972) is a Cuban-born triple jumper. She represented Cuba until 2003, Sudan from 2004 to 2010, then Great Britain from 2011 onwards. A four-time Olympian (2000–12), she won a silver medal at the 1999 Worl ...

, just two weeks short of her 40th birthday, hit the mark in their first attempt.

Olga Rypakova Olga Rypakova Alekseyeva; 30 November 1984) is a former Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the co ...

's third round jump of 14.79 led the way, while it took 14.16 to make the final. The only returning medalist from 2008 was

Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva (, born 21 July 1976) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events. She is one of the most successful athletes in the disciplines, having won gold medals at Olympic, ...

, but at 36, she was jumping more than 1.20 m less than four years ago. Fourth place from that competition

took the lead in the first round. Hanna Knyazyeva edged ahead in the second round. In the third round

Caterine Ibargüen Caterine Ibargüen Mena ODB (born 12 February 1984) is a retired Colombian athlete competing in high jump, long jump and triple jump. Her notable achievements include a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, silver medal in the 2012 Summer Oly ...

took the lead briefly, but then Rypakova hit the winner at 14.98 on the next jump. In the final round,

Olha Saladukha Olha Valeriivna Saladukha (, born 4 June 1983) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper. Since the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election she is a member of the Ukrainian parliament. Biography Saladukha took up athletics at the same club as Sergey Bubk ...

nailed her best jump to move into silver medal position. Two jumps later, Ibargüen bested that by a mere centimeter to push Saladukha back to bronze. Rypakova's winning jump was 13 cm less than her 4th place jump, even less than the 6th place jump in 2008.

Competition format

The competition consisted of two rounds, qualification and final. In qualification, each athlete jumped three times (stopping early if they made the qualifying distance). 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 (with the best distance of the six jumps counted).

Schedule

All times are

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Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 14.40m (Q) or at least best 12 qualified (q)

Final

References

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