2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump explained

The Women's Triple Jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. Cuban Yargelis Savigne had registered nine of the ten farthest jumps pre-championships and was seen as a strong favourite. The twice world gold medallist Tatyana Lebedeva and world-leader Nadezhda Alekhina were also considered possible medallists. The reigning Olympic champion, Françoise Mbango, had failed to perform well in the buildup to the championships and did not start the competition.^[1]

In the qualifying rounds, Asian record holder Xie Limei had the biggest jump of the day with 14.62 m, improving on her previous season's best by more than 40 cm. Savigne, Lebedeva, and Mabel Gay were the only other athletes to reach the 14.45 m automatic qualifying mark in what was a largely modest qualifying round.^[2]

The jumps in the final of the competition were not of the standard shown in previous years, and favourite Savigne was largely unchallenged. She took the gold with a best of 14.95 m to become only the second athlete to win consecutive world titles in the event (after Lebedeva's 2001 and 2003 double). Second-placed Gay (14.61) won her first ever World Championship medal and Pyatykh reached the podium with a mark of 14.58 m. Biljana Topic set a Serbian record of 14.52 m for fourth place, but no other athletes managed beyond 14.50 m.^[3]

Medalists

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Records

World record		15.50	Göteborg, Sweden	10 August 1995
Championship record		15.50	Göteborg, Sweden	10 August 1995
World leading		15.14	Cheboksary, Russia	26 July 2009
African record		15.39	Beijing, China	17 August 2008
Asian record		15.11	Beijing, China	17 August 2008
North American record		15.29	Rome, Italy	11 July 2003
South American record		14.57	São Paulo, Brazil	9 June 2007
European record		15.50	Göteborg, Sweden	10 August 1995
Oceanian record		14.04	Hobart, Australia	9 March 2002

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 15, 2009	11:00	Qualification
August 17, 2009	20:00	Final

Results

Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14.45 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Group	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	Result	Notes
	B			14.62			14.62	Q, SB
	A				14.53		14.53	Q
	B				14.53		14.53	Q
	A			14.45			14.45	Q, Doping
	B			14.37	13.80		14.37	q, SB
	A				13.87	14.32	14.32	q
	B			14.22	12.82	14.29	14.29	q
	A				14.01	14.27	14.27	q
	A				14.25	14.20	14.25	q
10	B					14.21	14.21	q
11	B			13.70	13.79	14.14	14.14	q
12	B			14.02		14.13	14.13	q
13	A			13.96	13.83	14.11	14.11
14	A			13.63	13.56	14.11	14.11
15	A				14.08		14.08	PB
16	B				14.06	13.80	14.06
17	B					14.01	14.01
18	B			13.92	13.35	13.70	13.92
19	A			13.92			13.92
20	A			13.89		13.73	13.89
21	A			13.80	13.72	13.87	13.87
22	A				13.69	13.84	13.84
23	A			13.63	13.77	13.82	13.82
24	B				13.58	13.74	13.74
25	B			13.69			13.69
25	B					13.69	13.69
27	A					13.67	13.67
28	B					13.60	13.60
29	A			13.58		13.58	13.58
30	B			13.51	13.42	13.40	13.51
31	A			13.37	13.41	13.41	13.41
32	A			13.34		13.39	13.39
33	A			13.22	13.05	12.98	13.22
34	B				11.38		11.38
	B							DNS

Key: DNS = Did not start, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
			14.45	14.14	14.89	14.85	14.95	14.39	14.95
			13.87	14.50		14.61	14.48	14.04	14.61	SB
			13.72	14.23	13.66	14.58	14.46	14.53	14.58
			14.21	14.38	14.27	14.52	14.43	14.10	14.52	NR
			14.31			14.41	14.48		14.48	SB
			14.26	14.00	14.03	14.20	14.16	14.15	14.26
			14.25		12.86	14.14	14.19	14.13	14.25
			14.16	11.46	14.06				14.16
9				13.91	13.71				13.91
10			13.77	13.79					13.79
11				13.19					13.19
				14.37	14.23	14.22	14.26	14.28	14.37	Doping

Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best

References

General

• Triple jump results. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-16.

Specific

Notes and References

1. Ramsak, Bob (2009-08-09). Women's Triple Jump - PREVIEW. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-16. Archived 2009-09-08.
2. Ramsak, Bob (2009-08-15). Event Report - Women's Triple Jump - Qualification . IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-16.
3. Ramsak, Bob (2009-08-17). Event Report - Women's Triple Jump - Final . IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-08-18.