Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump


The Women's triple jump competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 3–5 August.
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Four athletes achieved the automatic qualifier, Kimberly Williams and home team favorite Yamilé Aldama, just two weeks short of her 40th birthday, hit the mark in their first attempt. Olga Rypakova'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, but at 36, she was jumping more than 1.20 m less than four years ago. Fourth place from that competition Olga Rypakova took the lead in the first round. Hanna Knyazyeva edged ahead in the second round. In the third round Caterine Ibargüen took the lead briefly, but then Rypakova hit the winner at 14.98 on the next jump. In the final round, Olha Saladukha 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. 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 British Summer Time
DateTimeRound
Friday, 3 August 201210:25Qualifications
Sunday, 5 August 201219:35Finals

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record15.50 mGöteborg, Sweden10 August 1995
Olympic record15.39 mBeijing, China17 August 2008
2012 World leading14.99 mHelsinki, Finland29 June 2012

Results

Qualifying round

Qual. rule: qualification standard 14.40m or at least best 12 qualified
RankGroupNameNationality#1#2#3ResultNotes
1BOlga RypakovaX13.9914.7914.79Q
2AKimberly Williams14.5314.53Q, PB
3AYamilé Aldama14.4514.45Q
4BCaterine Ibargüen14.2414.4214.42Q
5AOlha Saladukha14.2614.35X14.35q
6BHanna Knyazyeva14.33XX14.33q
7BTrecia-Kaye SmithX14.31X14.31q, SB
8ATatyana Lebedeva14.1714.3014.30q
9BYargeris Savigne14.2214.2814.0214.28q
10ADana VelďákováX14.2213.8414.22q
DSQAVictoriya Valyukevich14.0914.1913.8614.19q
12AMarija ŠestakX14.1614.1214.16q
13BPatrícia Mamona14.1113.9713.9614.11
14BAyanna Alexander13.9813.9214.0914.09
15AHanna Demydova13.9713.60X13.97
15BDailenys Alcántara13.97XX13.97
17BVeronika Mosina13.7213.5613.9613.96
18BSimona La Mantia13.7713.9213.7313.92
19AJosleidy Ribalta13.7113.1213.8813.88
20BKeila CostaX13.6913.8413.84
21BSvetlana Bolshakova13.8413.4213.4513.84
22BMayookha Johny13.7713.6813.6213.77
23BXie Limei13.63X13.6913.69
24ANiki PanettaX13.6613.6313.66
25BBiljana TopićXX13.6613.66
26BPatricia SarrapioX13.64X 13.64
27AAmanda SmockX13.4313.6113.61
28AAleksandra Kotlyarova13.33X13.5513.55
29BAnastasiya Juravleva13.54XX13.54
30ALi Yanmei13.4312.7813.1513.43
31AIrina Litvinenko Ektova13.39XX13.39
32AAndriana BanovaX12.8813.3313.33
33BAthanasia PerraXX11.9311.93
ACristina BujinXXXNM
AKseniya DziatsukXXXNM

Final

The final was held on August, 5, 19:35.
RankNameNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6ResultNotes
Olga Rypakova14.54X14.98X14.8914.4014.98
Caterine Ibargüen14.4513.9914.6714.3714.3514.8014.80
Olha Saladukha13.9214.48X14.5314.5114.7914.79
4Hanna KnyazyevaX14.5614.1614.1414.16X14.56
5Yamilé Aldama14.1014.0914.3914.3214.4314.4814.48
6Kimberly Williams14.35X14.4814.19X14.2014.48
7Trecia-Kaye SmithXX14.3514.3413.74X14.35
8Yargeris Savigne14.1212.1313.9114.12
9Tatyana Lebedeva14.1114.0314.0114.11
10Marija Šestak13.8413.9813.9813.98
11Dana VelďákováXX11.9211.92
DSQViktoriya Valyukevich14.2413.7514.1813.7514.15X14.24DSQ for doping