Women Triple Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) - Monday 04.08

Women Triple Jump Athletics VI World Championship 1997 Athens (GRE) - Monday 04.08 - Gold Medal: Sarka Kasparkova, Czechia

Final 19:30		Distance	wins	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
1. Sarka Kasparkova	CZE	15.20m	0.0	14.86	14.65	15.01	X	15.20	14.83
2. Rodica Petrescu-Mateescu	ROU	15.16m	+0.1	15.16	X	14.90	14.38	14.84	12.21
3. Yelena Govorova	UKR	14.67m	+0.7	14.59	14.50	X	14.58	14.67	X
4. Olga-Anastasia Vasdeki	GRE	14.62m	-0.9	14.39	14.36	14.26	14.46	14.62	14.60
5. Ashia Hansen	GBR	14.49m	+0.9	13.99	14.36	X	14.41	14.21	14.49
6. Tereza Marinova	BUL	14.34m	+0.9	14.34	13.78	X	14.10	14.09	12.54
7. Jelena Blazevica	LAT	14.06m	-1.1	X	14.06	13.88	13.78	X	X
8. Betty Lise	FRA	14.03m	+0.2	13.49	14.02	X	X	14.03	13.77
9. Gundega Sproge	LAT	13.98m	-0.8	13.65	X	13.98
10.Petra Laux-Lobinger	GER	13.86m	-1.4	X	13.64	13.86
11.Cynthea Rhodes	USA	13.79m	-0.4	13.44	13.69	13.79
12.Zhanna Gureyeva	BLR	13.59m	+0.7	13.59	X	13.45

Women Triple Jump - History

Despite the absence from Athens through injury of world record holder Kravets and 1997 world indoor champion Lasovskaya, and the dreadful injury sustained by 1993 world champion Biryukova in the qualifying contest (she ruptured a patella tendon), the final proved to be a thriller of the highest class.
Mateescu opened with a Romanian record of 15.16 for third place on the world all-time list but her Czech opponent, Kašpárková (formerly a 1.95 high jumper), was also in inspired form and set a national record of 15.01 in the third round prior to bounding out to 15.20 with her penultimate jump. That was a distance only Kravets had ever bettered. A Greek record of 14.62 briefly held third place for Vasdhéki until, later in the fifth round, Govorova cleared 5cm further.
British hope Hansen, suffering from a back injury after the first round, filled fifth place at 14.49; her 14.77 in leading the qualifiers would have won the bronze medal.

Qualification - Saturday 02.08 08:20

Mark 17.25m 8+4 Athletes

Group A		Distance	wind	1.	2.	3.
1. Ashia Hansen	GBR	14.77m	+0.2	X	14.77
2. Betty Lise	FRA	14.50m	-0.1	13.97	13.81	14.50
3. Olga-Anastasia Vasdeki	GRE	14.49m	+0.3	14.23	14.49
4. Sarka Kasparkova	CZE	14.44m	+0.1	14.17	14.44
5. Yelena Govorova	UKR	14.39m	0.0	14.39
6. Zhanna Gureyeva	BLR	14.35m	+0.3	X	X	14.35
7. Jelena Blazevica	LAT	14.35m	+1.1	X	14.35
8. Cynthea Rhodes	USA	14.25m	+1.0	X	13.77	14.25
9. Yelena Donkina	RUS	14.07m	+1.0	13.19	14.07	13.79
10.Natalya Kayukova	RUS	14.06m	+1.1	X	13.90	14.06
11.Ruiping Ren	CHN	14.06m	+0.3	14.06	X	X
12.Heli Koivula	FIN	13.85m w	+2.3	13.81	13.85w
13.Suzette Lee	JAM	13.82m	+0.3	X	13.82	13.82
14.Zlatka Georgieva	BUL	13.52m	-0.3	X	12.87	13.52
15.Jackie Edwards	BAH	13.39m	-0.4	X	12.95	13.39
16.Anja Valant	SLO	13.36m	+0.6	X	13.36	12.74
17.Antonella Capriotti	ITA	13.32m	0.0	13.32	X	X
18.Marija Martinovic	YUG	13.30m	+0.3	12.94	12.84	13.30
19.Cristina Nicolau	ROU	13.25m	-1.0	X	X	13.25
-. Shonda Swift	USA	NM		X	X	X
-. Oksana Zelinskaya	KAZ	DQ 13.91m	+1.8	13.91

Group B		Distance	wind	1.	2.	3.
1. Rodica Petrescu-Mateescu	ROU	14.57m	+0.7	13.63	14.57
2. Tereza Marinova	BUL	14.28m w	+2.1	13.65	13.99	14.28
3. Gundega Sproge	LAT	14.22m	-0.8	14.22	13.73	X
4. Petra Laux-Lobinger	GER	14.17m	+1.2	12.77	14.02	14.17
5. Yamile Aldama	CUB	14.09m	0.0	14.09	13.80	13.72
6. Galina Cistjakova	SVK	14.02m	+0.2	14.02	X	13.99
7. Yelena Khlusovich	UKR	13.87m	+0.3	13.87	13.42	X
8. Maria A. Barbosa De Souza	BRA	13.75m	+0.3	13.51	X	13.75
9. Yelena Stakhova	BLR	13.71m	-0.5	X	13.54	13.71
10.Barbara Lah	ITA	13.70m	+0.1	13.70	X	X
11.Dorthe Jensen	DEN	13.69m	+0.6	13.17	X	13.69
12.Michelle Griffith	GBR	13.67m	+0.5	X	12.88	13.67
13.Niambi Dennis	USA	13.51m	+0.3	X	13.51	X
14.Andrea Avila	ARG	13.45m	+1.1	X	13.45	13.25
15.Trecia Smith	JAM	13.34m	-0.3	13.00	X	13.34
16.Maria Fletschmann	GUA	12.18m	-0.2	12.18	X	X
17.Valerie Guiyoule	FRA	11.37m	-0.4	X	X	11.37
-.Cristina Morujao	POR	NM		X	X	X
-.Anna Biryukova	RUS	DNF		X	X	X
-.Inessa Kravets	UKR	DNS