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

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

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

RankAthleteNationality#1#2#3#4#5#6ResultNotes
Yulimar Rojas  Venezuela15.19x15.04x15.3615.7415.74WR
Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk  Ukraine14.2814.07xxx14.7414.74PB
Kimberly Williams  Jamaica14.59x14.4013.79x14.6214.62SB
4Thea LaFond  Dominica14.53x13.8113.8414.43x14.53
5Liadagmis Povea  Cuba14.1614.3714.2214.4314.4514.1514.45SB
6Patrícia Mamona  Portugal14.2714.2414.42xx14.4214.42SB
7Keturah Orji  United States14.2514.3514.3914.1914.4214.3614.42SB
8Ana Peleteiro  Spain14.3014.08x14.25x13.6014.30SB
9Kristiina Mäkelä  Finlandxx14.1414.14SB
10Neja Filipič  Slovenia14.13x13.8314.13SB
11Leyanis Pérez  Cuba13.76x13.9913.99
12Neele Eckhardt-Noack  Germanyx12.4013.9613.96
13Tori Franklin  United States13.8913.6313.7113.89
14Hanna Minenko  Israelx13.83x13.83
15Dariya Derkach  Italy13.67x13.6113.67
16Jovana Ilić  Serbia13.0913.3613.0013.36

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