WCH Tokyo 25 facts and figures: women's triple jump

Last three sets of World Athletics Championships medallists

2023: 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 15.08m, 2 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (UKR) – 15.00m, 3 Leyanis Perez (CUB) – 14.96m
2022: 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 15.47m, 2 Shanieka Ricketts (JAM) – 14.89m, 3 Tori Franklin (USA) – 14.72m
2019: 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 15.37m, 2 Shanieka Ricketts (JAM) – 14.92m, 3 Caterine Ibargüen (COL) – 14.73m

Last two sets of Olympic medallists

Longest winning jumps in World Athletics Championships history

15.50m (+0.9) – Inessa Kravets (UKR), 1995
15.47m (+1.9) – Yulimar Rojas (VEN), 2022
15.37m (-0.6) – Yulimar Rojas (VEN), 2019

Shortest winning jump in World Athletics Championships history

14.85m (+0.2) – Caterine Ibargüen (COL), 2013

Best marks on Japanese soil

15.67m (+0.7) 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) - Tokyo (Olympics) 01.08.2021
15.32m (+0.5) 1 Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) - Yokohama 09.09.2000
15.28m (+0.9) 1 Yargelis Savigne (CUB) - Osaka (World Championships 31.08.2007

Best marks on Asian soil

15.67m (+0.7) 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) - Tokyo (Olympics) 01.08.2021
15.39m (+0.5) 1 Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) - Beijing (Olympics) 17.08.2008
15.37m (-0.6) 1 Yulimar Rojas (VEN) - Doha (World Championships) 05.10.2019

Biggest winning margins

0.65m – 2001: Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS) – 15.25m, Françoise Mbango (CMR) – 14.60m
0.58m – 2022: Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 15.47m, Shanieka Ricketts (JAM) – 14.89m
0.45m – 2019: Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 15.37m, Shanieka Ricketts (JAM) – 14.92m

​​Smallest winning margins

0.02m – 2017: Yulimar Rojas (VEN) – 14.91m, Caterine Ibargüen (COL) – 14.89m
0.04m – 1997: Šárka Kašpárková (CZE) – 15.20m, Rodica Mateescu (ROU) – 15.16m
0.04m – 2013: Caterine Ibargüen (COL) – 14.87m, Yekaterina Koneva (RUS) – 14.83m

Multiple winners

2001/03 - Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)
2007/09 - Yargelis Savigne (CUB)
2013/15 - Caterine Ibarguen (COL)
2017/19/22/23 - Yulimar Rojas (VEN)

Winners by country

4 - Venezuela
3 - Russia
2 - Colombia
2 - Cuba 
2 - Ukraine
1 - Czechia
1 - Greece
1 - Jamaica

Five historic facts

• World records were set in the first two editions of the women’s triple jump at the World Championships: Anna Biryukova (RUS) with 15.09m in 1993 and Inessa Kravets (UKR) with 15.50m in 1995
• 10 of the 16 triple jump finals at the World Championships, including the last three, have been won with jumps in excess of the 15 metre-barrier 
• Yulimar Rojas (VEN) holds two of the three longest jumps in World Championships history: 15.47m in 2022 and 15.37m in 2019
• Courtesy of Rojas’ four successive gold medals, Venezuela is the most successful country in the women’s triple jump in World Championships history 
• Rojas set a world record of 15.67m to win Olympic gold in this stadium in 2021. This remains the longest jump ever recorded outdoors 

Potential storylines

• Can Yulimar Rojas (VEN) return from injury and win her fifth successive triple jump title? The only athletes to win five or more successive world titles are Pawel Fajdek (POL) in the hammer with five and Sergey Bubka (URS/UKR) in the pole vault with six
• The qualifying round will be Rojas' first competition in exactly two years. Her last competitive appearance was the Diamond League final in Eugene where she won with 15.35m on 16 September 2023
• Can Olympic champion Thea Lafond (DMA) become the first woman from Dominica to win a medal in World Championships history? Their only medal in World Championships history dates back to 1995 when Jerome Romain won bronze in the men's triple jump in a legendary final won by Jonathan Edwards
• Can Cuba win gold in the women’s triple jump for the third time? Yargelis Savigne (CUB) won gold in 2007 and 2009
• The automatic qualifying distance for the final is 14.35m