The women's triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 16 and 18 July 2022.Timetable 28 athletes from 20 nations entered to the event.
Summary
Coming in to the Championships Yulimar Rojas held the women's triple jump world record and was the defending champion for the event.
After jumping 14.60m in the first round, Rojas found herself in an unfamiliar second place behind a 14.89m new world leader from returning two time silver medalist Shanieka Ricketts. As the second jumper, in the second round Rojas settled it. has only been bettered by one other person in history (that was the Championship Record by Inessa Kravets in 1995). With first place virtually settled, the remaining athletes had to look at the other medals. Tori Franklin's first round 14.53m was third place until Leyanis Pérez jumped 14.70m to move up. The marks from Ricketts and Pérez held up until Franklin jumped 14.72m in the fifth round to finally claim bronze. To finish things off, Rojas jumped 15.39m on the final jump of the competition, only the #9 jump in history.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record15.74 m (i)Belgrade, Serbia20 March 2022Championship record15.50 mGothenburg, Sweden10 August 1995World Leading14.83 mLa Nucia, Spain11 June 2022African Record15.39 mBeijing, China17 August 2008Asian Record15.25 mSplit, Croatia26 October 2009North, Central American and Caribbean record15.29 mRome, Italy11 July 2003South American Record15.74 m (i)Belgrade, Serbia20 March 2022European Record15.50 mGothenburg, Sweden10 August 1995Oceanian record14.04 mHobart, Australia9 March 2002Perth, Australia7 December 2003
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 14.32 m.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
Date Time Round16 July 10:30 Qualification18 July 18:20 Final
Results
Qualification The qualification round took place on 16 July, in two groups, both starting at 10:29. Athletes attaining a mark of at least 14.40 metres ( Q ) or at least the 12 best performers ( q ) qualified for the final.
Rank Group Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 31 B Yulimar Rojas 14.72 14.72 2 A Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk 14.54 14.54 3 B Ana José Tima 14.18 14.31 14.52 14.52 4 A Kristiina Mäkelä 14.48 14.48 5 A Shanieka Ricketts 14.45 14.45 6 A Thea LaFond 14.39 14.39 7 A Keturah Orji 14.23 13.62 14.37 14.37 8 A Ackelia Smith 13.63 13.75 14.36 14.36 9 B Tori Franklin 14.36 14.36 10 A Patrícia Mamona 14.04 14.32 14.32 11 A Leyanis Pérez 14.23 14.30 14.17 14.30 12 B Kimberly Williams 14.27 13.69 14.27 14.27 13 A Jasmine Moore 13.86 14.09 14.24 14.24 14 B Senni Salminen 14.05 14.21 14.13 14.21 15 A Hanna Minenko 14.11 14.11 16 A Neja Filipič 13.82 14.05 14.05 17 B Liadagmis Povea 14.01 13.96 13.99 14.01 18 B Naomi Metzger 13.97 13.78 13.84 13.97 19 B Davisleydi Velazco 13.66 13.94 13.94 20 B Neele Eckhardt-Noack 13.63 13.58 13.93 13.93 21 A Ruth Usoro 13.93 13.85 13.87 13.93 22 A Ottavia Cestonaro 13.63 13.60 13.63 23 B Tuğba Danışmaz 13.34 13.63 11.42 13.63 24 B Spyridoula Karydi 13.55 13.62 13.28 13.62 25 B Gabriele Santos 13.62 13.62 26 B Yekaterina Sariyeva 13.24 13.46 13.46 27 A Jessie Maduka 13.17 13.30 13.14 13.30 28 B Mariya Yefremova 13.27 13.27
Final The final was started on 18 July at 18:20.Final Results
Rank Name Nationality Round Mark Notes 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yulimar Rojas 14.60 15.47 15.24 x x 15.39 15.47 Shanieka Ricketts 14.89 14.86 14.37 14.40 14.62 14.80 14.89 Tori Franklin 14.53 14.45 x x 14.72 x 14.72 4 Leyanis Pérez 14.40 14.70 14.39 14.54 14.58 14.19 14.70 5 Thea LaFond x 13.18 14.43 14.26 x 14.56 14.56 6 Keturah Orji 13.47 14.49 x x x 14.06 14.49 7 Kimberly Williams x 14.29 13.74 14.29 13.99 14.19 14.29 8 Patrícia Mamona 14.25 x 14.19 x 14.29 14.00 14.29 9 Kristiina Mäkelä 14.18 14.15 14.10 14.18 10 Ana José Tima 14.13 14.12 13.87 14.13 11 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk x 12.70 13.91 13.91 12 Ackelia Smith 13.01 x 13.90 13.90
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