Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump

Women's triple jump at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	15 August 2008 (qualification) 17 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	36 from 26 nations
Winning distance	15.39 OR
Medalists
Françoise Mbango Etone  Cameroon Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia Hrysopiyí Devetzí  Greece

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4 × 100 m relay		men		women
4 × 400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and 17 at the Beijing Olympic Stadium.

The qualifying standards for the 2008 event were (A standard) and (B standard).

The automatic qualifier was still 14.45m but unlike four years earlier with 15 auto qualifiers, only eight made it this time. Hrysopiyi Devetzi was the #2 qualifier this time with a less spectacular 14.92m (40cm less than her personal best in qualifying in 2004). The fifth best jumper in history Yamilé Aldama was unable to find the take off board and fouled out in qualifying.

In the first round of the final, defending champion Françoise Mbango Etone showed she was serious jumping 15.19m to take the lead. Marija Šestak went 15.03m to move into second and the #2 jumper in history Tatyana Lebedeva jumped 15.00m for third place. In the second round Lebedeva jumped 15.17m but Devetzí pulled out a 15.23 and Etone exploded a 15.39 m (50 ft 5​³⁄₄ in), a jump which remains the second best jump in history and became the new Olympic record. After losing a notch in the all time list, Lebedeva's third round 15.32m, only equalling her personal third best jump, moved her within 7cm of the lead. Other athletes were able to improve over the 15m mark but the podium was set. Etone's gold her nation's second individual gold medal in its Olympic history, which followed her first four years earlier.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	15.50	Göteborg, Sweden	10 August 1995
Olympic record	Inessa Kravets (UKR)	15.33	Atlanta, United States	31 July 1996

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Event	Name	Nationality	Distance	Notes
17 August	Final	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15.39	OR

Results

Qualifying round

Qualifying Performance 14.45 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Group	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	A	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	14.37 (+0.3)	14.99 (-0.3)		14.99	Q
2	B	Hrysopiyi Devetzi	Greece	14.92 (+0.1)			14.92	Q
3	A	Viktoriya Gurova	Russia	14.44 (-0.8)	14.78 (+0.3)		14.78	Q
4	A	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	14.64 (0.0)			14.64	Q, SB
5	B	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	14.55 (0.0)			14.55	Q
6	B	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	14.50 (0.0)			14.50	Q
7	B	Olha Saladukha	Ukraine	14.46 (-0.3)			14.46	Q
8	A	Anna Pyatykh	Russia	x	14.45 (0.0)		14.45	Q
9	A	Marija Sestak	Slovenia	x	14.44 (-0.5)	x	14.44	q
10	B	Xie Limei	China	13.38 (0.0)	14.27 (0.0)	14.01 (0.0)	14.27	q
11	B	Kaire Leibak	Estonia	14.19 (0.0)	14.07 (0.0)	x	14.19	q
12	B	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	14.18 (+0.3)	x	x	14.18	q, SB
13	A	Biljana Topic	Serbia	x	14.11 (-0.3)	14.14 (-0.2)	14.14
14	A	Teresa Nzola Meso Ba	France	14.11 (0.0)	14.11 (+0.2)	13.98 (-0.2)	14.11
15	A	Mabel Gay	Cuba	x	x	14.09 (+0.4)	14.09
16	A	Carlota Castrejana	Spain	14.02 (+0.3)	x	x	14.02
17	A	Svitlana Mamieieva	Ukraine	13.73 (-0.3)	13.89 (-0.6)	14.01 (+0.2)	14.01
18	A	Magdelin Martinez	Italy	x	14.00 (-0.1)	13.77 (+0.2)	14.00
19	B	Adelina Gavrila	Romania	13.98 (0.0)	13.71 (0.0)	13.55 (0.0)	13.98
20	A	Carolina Klüft	Sweden	13.60 (+0.6)	x	13.97 (+0.2)	13.97
21	B	Yarianna Martinez	Cuba	13.76 (0.0)	13.96 (0.0)	13.83 (0.0)	13.96
22	B	Baya Rahouli	Algeria	13.80 (+0.6)	13.57 (0.0)	13.87 (0.0)	13.87
23	B	Gisele de Oliveira	Brazil	x	13.81 (0.0)	x	13.81
24	B	Liliya Kulyk	Ukraine	13.53 (-0.5)	13.66 (0.0)	13.39 (0.0)	13.66
25	A	Gita Dodova	Bulgaria	x	13.47 (-0.8)	13.53 (+1.7)	13.53
26	A	Erica McLain	United States	x	13.52 (-0.6)	-	13.52
27	A	Yelena Parfyonova	Kazakhstan	13.46 (+0.5)	x	13.38 (-0.8)	13.46
28	B	Shani Marks	United States	13.20 (0.0)	13.44 (0.0)	x	13.44
29	B	Anastasiya Juravleva	Uzbekistan	13.36 (+0.1)	x	x	13.36
30	A	Chinonye Ohadugha	Nigeria	12.92 (-0.6)	12.86 (-0.7)	13.29 (+0.1)	13.29
31	A	Kseniya Pryiemka	Belarus	13.08 (-0.3)	12.79 (0.0)	x	13.08
32	A	Irina Litvinenko	Kazakhstan	x	12.92 (0.0)	12.91 (0.0)	12.92
	B	Yamile Aldama	Sudan	x	x	x	NM
	A	Athanasia Perra	Greece	x	x	x	NM
	B	Martina Šestáková	Czech Republic	x	x	x	NM
	B	Dana Velďáková	Slovakia	x	x	x	NM

Final

The final was held on August 17.

Rank	Name	Nationality	1	2	3	4	5	6	Result	Notes
	Françoise Mbango Etone	Cameroon	15.19	15.39	x	14.82	x	14.88	15.39	OR
	Tatyana Lebedeva	Russia	15.00	15.17	15.32	14.40	x	x	15.32
	Hrysopiyí Devetzí	Greece	14.96	15.23	x	x	x	x	15.23
4	Olga Rypakova	Kazakhstan	x	14.83	14.93	15.03	15.11	x	15.11	AR
5	Yargelis Savigne	Cuba	x	14.87	14.77	15.05	x	14.91	15.05
6	Marija Šestak	Slovenia	15.03	14.65	x	14.46	14.47	14.75	15.03	NR
7	Viktoriya Gurova	Russia	14.38	14.04	14.77	x	14.65	x	14.77
8	Anna Pyatykh	Russia	14.67	14.73	14.57	x	14.67	14.28	14.73
9	Olha Saladukha	Ukraine	12.78	14.70	11.29				14.70
10	Kaire Leibak	Estonia	12.19	14.13	x				14.13
11	Trecia Smith	Jamaica	14.12	13.75	x				14.12
12	Limei Xie	China	14.09	13.94	13.67				14.09