2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump

The women's triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on 20 March 2022.[1]

Women's triple jump
at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships
VenueŠtark Arena
Dates20 March
Competitors16 from 14 nations
Winning distance15.74
Medalists
gold medal    Venezuela
silver medal    Ukraine
bronze medal    Jamaica
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Summary edit

Kimberly Williams opened the competition with a season best 14.59m. Three jumpers later, Thea LaFond came close with a 14.53m. Then Yulimar Rojas made her first attempt, 15.19m. Game over. Only one other competitor had ever gone over 15 metres. The battle would be for the other medals.

Those three jumps, from the first 5 attempts in the competition, held the medal positions until the last jump of the fifth round, when Rojas improved her hold on the lead to 15.36m. Only the 9th best jump of her career, it was a distance only three other jumpers had ever achieved. The next jumper on the runway was Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk. After training through the first weeks of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, then being shuttled out of the country for these championships, she put together a massive personal best 14.74m to rocket from eighth to second.[2] While Williams was able to improve on her final attempt, 14.62m still left her in bronze medal position. Already confirmed as the winner, Rojas made one more attempt down the runway. It was 15.74 m (51 ft 7+12 in), a new world record to win the competition by exactly 1 metre, improving 7 cm over her previous record set in the Olympics.

Results edit

The final was started at 11:00.[3]

Rank Athlete Nationality #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 Result Notes
  Yulimar Rojas   Venezuela 15.19 x 15.04 x 15.36 15.74 15.74 WR
  Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk   Ukraine 14.28 14.07 x x x 14.74 14.74 PB
  Kimberly Williams   Jamaica 14.59 x 14.40 13.79 x 14.62 14.62 SB
4 Thea LaFond   Dominica 14.53 x 13.81 13.84 14.43 x 14.53
5 Liadagmis Povea   Cuba 14.16 14.37 14.22 14.43 14.45 14.15 14.45 SB
6 Patrícia Mamona   Portugal 14.27 14.24 14.42 x x 14.42 14.42 SB
7 Keturah Orji   United States 14.25 14.35 14.39 14.19 14.42 14.36 14.42 SB
8 Ana Peleteiro   Spain 14.30 14.08 x 14.25 x 13.60 14.30 SB
9 Kristiina Mäkelä   Finland x x 14.14 14.14 SB
10 Neja Filipič   Slovenia 14.13 x 13.83 14.13 SB
11 Leyanis Pérez   Cuba 13.76 x 13.99 13.99
12 Neele Eckhardt-Noack   Germany x 12.40 13.96 13.96
13 Tori Franklin   United States 13.89 13.63 13.71 13.89
14 Hanna Minenko   Israel x 13.83 x 13.83
15 Dariya Derkach   Italy 13.67 x 13.61 13.67
16 Jovana Ilić   Serbia 13.09 13.36 13.00 13.36

References edit

  1. ^ "More triple jump history to be made in Belgrade". World Athletics. 14 March 2022. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  2. ^ "Bekh-Romanchuk: "I devote this medal to all Ukrainian people"". European Athletics. 22 March 2022. Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Results Triple Jump Women - Final" (PDF). media.aws.iaaf.org. 20 March 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.