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

Event:	Women's triple jump
Games:	2012 Summer
Venue:	Olympic Stadium
Date:	3–5 August
Competitors:	35
Nations:	24
Gold:	Olga Rypakova
Goldnoc:	KAZ
Silver:	Caterine Ibargüen
Silvernoc:	COL
Bronze:	Olha Saladukha
Bronzenoc:	UKR
Win Label:	Winning distance
Win Value:	14.98
Prev:	2008
Next:	2016

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.^[1]

Greece's Paraskevi Papachristou 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, 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 (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).^[2]

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 3 August 2012	10:25	Qualifications
style=background:lemonchiffon	Sunday, 5 August 2012	style=background:lemonchiffon	19:35	style=background:lemonchiffon	Finals

Records

, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	15.50 m	Göteborg, Sweden	10 August 1995
Olympic record	15.39 m	Beijing, China	17 August 2008
2012 World leading	14.99 m	Helsinki, Finland	29 June 2012

Results

Qualifying round

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

Rank	Group	1	2	3	Result	Notes^[3]
1	B	x	13.99	14.79	14.79	Q
2	A	14.53	—	—	14.53	Q, PB
3	A	14.45	—	—	14.45	Q
4	B	14.24	14.42	—	14.42	Q
5	A	14.26	14.35	x	14.35	q
6	B	14.33	x	x	14.33	q
7	B	x	14.31	x	14.31	q, SB
8	A	14.17	14.30	—	14.30	q
9	B	14.22	14.28	14.02	14.28	q
10	A	x	14.22	13.84	14.22	q
DSQ	A	14.09	14.19	13.86	14.19	q
12	A	x	14.16	14.12	14.16	q
13	B	14.11	13.97	13.96	14.11
14	B	13.98	13.92	14.09	14.09
15	A	13.97	13.60	x	13.97
15	B	13.97	x	x	13.97
17	B	13.72	13.56	13.96	13.96
18	B	13.77	13.92	13.73	13.92
19	A	13.71	13.12	13.88	13.88
20	B	x	13.69	13.84	13.84
21	B	13.84	13.42	13.45	13.84
22	B	13.77	13.68	13.62	13.77
23	B	13.63	x	13.69	13.69
24	A	x	13.66	13.63	13.66
25	B	x	x	13.66	13.66
26	B	x	13.64	x	13.64
27	A	x	13.43	13.61	13.61
28	A	13.33	x	13.55	13.55
29	B	13.54	x	x	13.54
30	A	13.43	12.78	13.15	13.43
31	A	13.39	x	x	13.39
32	A	x	12.88	13.33	13.33
33	B	x	x	11.93	11.93
–	A	x	x	x	NM
–	A	x	x	x	NM

Final

Rank	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	14.54	x	14.98	x	14.89	14.40	14.98
	14.45	13.99	14.67	14.37	14.35	14.80	14.80
	13.92	14.48	x	14.53	14.51	14.79	14.79
4	X	14.56	14.16	14.14	14.16	x	14.56
5	14.10	14.09	14.39	14.32	14.43	14.48	14.48
6	14.35	x	14.48	14.19	x	14.20	14.48
7	x	x	14.35	14.34	13.74	x	14.35
8	14.12	12.13	13.91	Did not advance			14.12
9	14.11	14.03	14.01	Did not advance			14.11
10	13.84	13.98	13.98	Did not advance			13.98
11	x	x	11.92	Did not advance			11.92
DSQ	14.24	13.75	14.18	13.75	14.15	x	14.24	DSQ for doping

Notes and References

Web site: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics . 2012-05-11 . 2012-09-05 . https://archive.today/20120905092430/http://www.london2012.com/athletics/about/ . dead .
Web site: Women's Triple Jump competition format. London 2012 Organising Committee. 13 June 2012. 5 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120605000728/http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/women-triple-jump/competition-format/index.html. dead.
http://www.london2012.com/athletics/event/women-triple-jump/phase=atw062900/doc=results.html Qualification results