The women's triple jump at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 13–15 August.

Defending champion Olha Saladuha was the leading qualifier, but it took her two attempts to get there. Irina Gumenyuk and world leader Caterine Ibargüen took care of business on their first attempts. Saladuha's former Ukrainian teammate Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko, now competing for Israel, suffered through two fouls before popping the No. 3 qualifier on her last attempt.

In the final, Saladuha took the first round lead, with Knyazyeva-Minenko leading a crowd of four hovering around 14.30. In the second round, the event was decided. First the home team's Ekaterina Koneva put one out at 14.81 to take the lead. Two jumps later, Ibargüen improved on her world leading jump of the year by going 14.85, just 4 cm further. Two jumps after that, Saladuha improved out to 14.65. That turned out to be it, but nobody knew it. Ibargüen continued with a 14.83 in the fourth round, which turned out to be the second best of the competition and watched nervously as Koneva tickled her best with a 14.79 in the fifth. But the lead held up and Ibargüen took home Colombia's first World Championship gold medal to go along with the bronzes she and racewalker Luis Fernando López earned in Daegu.

Records Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record15.50Gothenburg, Sweden10 August 1995Championship record15.50Göteborg, Sweden10 August 1995World leading14.85Eugene, United States1 June 2013African record15.39Beijing, People's Republic of China17 August 2008Asian record15.25Split, Croatia4 September 2010North, Central American and Caribbean record15.28Osaka, Japan31 August 2007South American record14.99Bogotá, Colombia13 August 2011European record15.50Göteborg, Sweden10 August 1995Oceanian record14.04Hobart, Australia9 March 2002Perth, Australia7 December 2003

Schedule Date Time Round13 August 2013 11:25 Qualification15 August 2013 19:40 Final

Results KEY:QQualifiedq12 best performersNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal best

Qualification Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.

Rank Group Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Result Notes 1 A Olha Saladuha 13.95 14.69 14.69 Q 2 B Caterine Ibargüen 14.52 14.52 Q 3 A Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko x x 14.46 14.46 Q 4 B Anna Pyatykh 13.80 x 14.34 14.34 Q 5 A Kimberly Williams 14.25 14.36 14.36 Q 6 B Ekaterina Koneva 13.32 14.30 14.30 Q 7 A Irina Gumenyuk 14.30 14.30 Q 8 A Mabel Gay 13.99 13.95 14.17 14.17 q 9 B Snežana Rodić 13.73 x 14.17 14.17 q 10 B Anna Jagaciak x 13.21 13.96 13.96 q 11 B Athanasia Perra x 13.85 13.92 13.92 q 12 A Dana Velďáková x 13.88 13.85 13.88 q 13 A Keila Costa 13.82 13.80 13.67 13.82 14 B Simona La Mantia 13.57 x 13.80 13.80 15 A Niki Panetta 13.04 13.69 13.52 13.69 16 B Ruslana Tsykhotska 13.51 x x 13.51 17 B Baya Rahouli x 13.41 x 13.41 18 A x 13.09 13.37 13.37 19 A Anastasiya Juravleva 13.03 13.32 x 13.32 20 A Sarah Nambawa x x 13.31 13.31 21 B Natallia Viatkina 13.19 x 13.02 13.19

Final

The final was started at 19:40.

Rank Name Nationality No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 Result Notes Caterine Ibargüen x 14.85 14.69 14.83 x x 14.85 WL Ekaterina Koneva 14.29 14.81 14.59 14.33 14.79 12.18 14.81 Olha Saladuha 14.42 14.65 14.33 14.51 14.60 14.49 14.65 Kimberly Williams x 13.98 14.17 14.62 x x 14.62 PB Mabel Gay 14.28 14.38 13.83 14.45 14.29 x 14.45 SB Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko 14.33 14.19 x x 14.14 x 14.33 Anna Pyatykh 14.29 11.68 14.08 14.21 14.22 14.20 14.29 Irina Gumenyuk x x 14.15 x 13.98 x 14.15 Snežana Rodić 13.75 x 14.13 14.13 10 Anna Jagaciak 13.65 13.95 13.65 13.95 11 Dana Velďáková x 13.84 13.60 13.84 12 Athanasia Perra x 13.75 13.55 13.75

References

External links Triple jump results at IAAF website