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Triple jump, the Glossary

The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump.^[1]

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Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, also known as ABQ, Burque, and the Duke City, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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Aleksandr Aseledchenko

Aleksandr Aseledchenko (born 18 October 1973) is a retired Russian triple jumper.

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Aleksandr Kovalenko (athlete)

Aleksandr Yuryevich Kovalenko (Аляксандр Юр’евіч Каваленка; born 8 May 1963) is a Belarusian retired USSR triple jumper who won the bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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Aleksandr Zolotarev (athlete)

Aleksandr Zolotarev (born 13 March 1940) is a Soviet athlete.

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Aliecer Urrutia

Aliecer Urrutia Delgado (born September 22, 1974, in Villa Clara) is a retired male triple jumper from Cuba.

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Almir dos Santos

Almir Cunha dos Santos (born 4 September 1993) is a Brazilian male track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump and long jump.

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Ana Peleteiro

Ana Peleteiro Brión (born 2 December 1995 in Ribeira, A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish triple jumper and the current national record holder.

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Ancient Olympic Games

The ancient Olympic Games (τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ta Olympia.

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Andújar

Andújar is a Spanish municipality of 38,539 people (2005) in the province of Jaén, in Andalusia.

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Andrew Ray-Jamie Murphy (born 18 December 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former triple jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships where he achieved an Oceanian indoor record of 17.20 metres.

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Andy Díaz

Andy Díaz (born 25 December 1995) is a Cuban naturalised Italian athlete specialising in the triple jump.

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Anna Biryukova

Anna Biryukova (Анна Бирюкова; born 27 September 1967 in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk) is a retired female triple jumper from Russia.

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Anna Pyatykh

Anna Viktorovna Pyatykh (Анна Викторовна Пятых) (born April 4, 1981, in Moscow) is a professional Russian triple jumper.

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Arnie David Giralt

Arnie David Giralt Rivero (born 26 August 1984, Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban triple jumper.

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Ashia Hansen

Ashia Hansen, (born 5 December 1971) is a retired British triple jumper.

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Ataköy Athletics Arena

Ataköy Athletics Arena (Ataköy Atletizm Salonu) is an indoor sporting arena for track and field athletics events located in Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump

The men's triple jump event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 45 competitors, with 43 athletes from 31 nations starting in two qualifying groups (43 jumpers) before the final (12) took place on Saturday September 24, 1988.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Aubière

Aubière (Auvergnat: Aubèira) is a commune located in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeast France.

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Šárka Kašpárková

Šárka Kašpárková (born 20 May 1971) is a Czech former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Belgrade

Belgrade.

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Benjamin Compaoré

Benjamin Compaoré (born 5 August 1987) is a French athlete specialising in the triple jump.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Bogotá

Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.

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Bratislava

Bratislava (German: Pressburg or Preßburg,; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river.

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Brian Wellman

Brian Wellman (born September 8, 1967) is a former triple jumper from Bermuda, who became indoor world champion in 1995, setting a new championship record (CR) of 17.72.

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Bryansk

Bryansk (Брянск) is a city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the River Desna, southwest of Moscow.

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Bucharest

Bucharest (București) is the capital and largest city of Romania.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Cali

Santiago de Cali, or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,280,522 residents estimate by DANE in 2023.

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Caterine Ibargüen

Caterine Ibargüen Mena ODB (born 12 February 1984) is a retired Colombian athlete competing in high jump, long jump and triple jump.

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Charisma Taylor

Charisma Taylor (born September 3, 1999) is a Bahamian hurdler and jumper from Nassau, Bahamas who competes in the 100m Hurdles, triple jump and long jump.

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Charles Friedek

Charles Michael Friedek (born 26 August 1971 in Gießen) is a German triple jumper who became world champion in 1999 with a jump of 17.59 metres.

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Charles Simpkins

Charles "Charlie" Simpkins (born October 19, 1963) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump.

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Cheboksary

Cheboksary (Чебокса́ры,; Šupaškar) is the capital city of Chuvashia, Russia, and a port on the Volga River.

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Chorzów

Chorzów (Königshütte; Chorzōw) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice.

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Christian Olsson

Christian Olsson (born 25 January 1980) is a former Swedish athlete competing in high jump and triple jump.

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Christian Taylor (athlete)

Christian Taylor (born June 18, 1990) is a retired American track and field athlete who competed in the triple jump and has a personal record of, which ranks 2nd on the all-time list.

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Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

The Commonwealth Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, known for sponsorship reasons as the Emirates Arena, is an indoor arena and velodrome in Dalmarnock, Glasgow, Scotland.

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Cristina Nicolau

Cristina Nicolau (9 August 1977, in Bucharest – 5 December 2017) was a Romanian triple jumper.

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Daegu

Daegu, formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in southeastern South Korea.

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Daniele Greco

Daniele Greco (born 1 March 1989) is an Italian athlete competing in the triple jump.

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Denis Kapustin (athlete)

Denis Viktorovich Kapustin (Денис Викторович Капустин; born 5 October 1970 in Kazan, Respublika Tatarstan) is a retired male triple jumper from Russia.

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Doha

Doha (ad-Dawḥa or ad-Dūḥa) is the capital city and main financial hub of Qatar.

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Donald Scott (triple jumper)

Donald Douglas Scott (born February 23, 1992) is an American track and field Olympian who competed in the triple jump in 2020 and 2024.

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Dong Bin

Dong Bin (born 22 November 1988) is a Chinese track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump.

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Edmonton

Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.

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Ekaterina Koneva

Ekaterina Koneva (Екатерина Конева; born 25 September 1988) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump.

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Ernesto Revé

Ernesto Revé Serrano (born 12 February 1992 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban triple jumper.

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Esmeralda de Jesus Garcia

Esmeralda de Jesus Freitas Garcia Silami (born February 16, 1959) is a retired long and triple jumper from Brazil, who also competed in the sprint events.

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Eugene, Oregon

Eugene is a city in and the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, United States.

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Fabrizio Donato

Fabrizio Donato (born 14 August 1976) is an Italian former athlete who competed in the triple jump and occasionally in the long jump.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Françoise Mbango Etone

Françoise Mbango Etone (born 14 April 1976 in Yaoundé) is a Cameroonian-born female track and field athlete.

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Frank Rutherford

Frank Garfield Rutherford, Jr. MBE (born November 23, 1964) is a retired triple jumper from the Bahamas.

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Fukuoka

Fukuoka (福岡市) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Galina Chistyakova

Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova (Галина Валентиновна Чистякова, Galina Čisťakovová; born 26 July 1962) is a retired athlete who represented the Soviet Union and later Slovakia.

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Gennadiy Valyukevich

Gennadiy Valyukevich (Генадзь Валюкевіч; 1 June 1958 – 30 December 2019) was a triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Belarus.

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Gothenburg

Gothenburg (abbreviated Gbg; Göteborg) is the capital of Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Grenoble

Grenoble (or Grainóvol; Graçanòbol) is the prefecture and largest city of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.

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Haina

Haina (Kloster) is a municipality in Waldeck-Frankenberg in northwest Hesse, Germany.

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Hamamatsu

is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Heraklion

Heraklion or Herakleion (Ηράκλειο), sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.

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Hrysopiyi Devetzi

Hrysopiyi "Piyi" Devetzi (Χρυσοπηγή Δεβετζή,, born January 2, 1976) is a retired Greek athlete who competed in the triple jump and long jump.

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Hugues Fabrice Zango

Hugues Fabrice Zango (born 25 June 1993) is a Burkinabé athlete who specialises in the triple jump and the long jump.

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Igor Lapshin

Igor Olegovich Lapshin (Ігар Алегавіч Лапшын; born August 8, 1963, in Minsk, Belarusian SSR) is a retired male triple jumper who represented the USSR.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Inna Lasovskaya

Inna Alexandrovna Lasovskaya (Инна Александровна Ласовская; born 17 December 1969) is a retired triple jumper from Russia.

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Irish mythology

Irish mythology is the body of myths indigenous to the island of Ireland.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Iva Prandzheva

Iva Prandzheva (Ива Пранджева, born 15 February 1972 in Plovdiv) is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful in both long jump and triple jump.

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Jaak Uudmäe

Jaak Uudmäe (born 3 September 1954) is an Estonian former triple jumper and long jumper who competed for the Soviet Union.

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Jadel Gregório

Jadel Abdul Ghani Gregório (born 16 September 1980 in Jandaia do Sul, Paraná) is a Brazilian athlete competing in long jump and triple jump.

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James Beckford (athlete)

James Beckford (born 9 January 1975 in Saint Mary, Jamaica) is a Jamaican track and field athlete competing in the long jump.

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James Brendan Connolly

James Brendan Bennet Connolly (Séamas Breandán Ó Conghaile, October 28, 1868 – January 20, 1957) was an American athlete and author.

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Jasmine Moore

Jasmine Moore (born May 1, 2001) is an American athlete.

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Jaydon Hibbert

Jaydon Hibbert (born 17 January 2005) is a Jamaican track and field athlete.

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João Carlos de Oliveira

João Carlos de Oliveira, also known as "João do Pulo" (May 28, 1954May 29, 1999) was a Brazilian athlete who competed in the triple jump and the long jump.

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Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)

Jonathan David Edwards, (born 10 May 1966) is a British former triple jumper.

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Jordan Díaz

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún (born 23 February 2001) is a triple jumper.

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Jorge Reyna

Jorge Reyna (born 10 January 1963) is a retired male triple jumper from Cuba who won a silver medal at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

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Juan Miguel López

Juan Miguel López Varga (born 7 April 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

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Kéné Ndoye

Kéné Ndoye (20 November 1978 – 13 February 2023) was a Senegalese track and field athlete, competing internationally for Senegal.

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Keila Costa

Keila da Silva Costa (born 6 February 1983) is a Brazilian long jumper and triple jumper.

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Keith Connor

Keith Leroy Connor (born 16 September 1957 in Anguilla, an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom) is a male retired athlete who represented Great Britain and England.

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Ken Lorraway

Kenneth ("Ken") John Lorraway (6 February 1956 – 4 January 2007) was an Australian triple jumper, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1980 and 1984 and Commonwealth Games: 1978 and 1982.

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Kenny Harrison

Kenny Harrison (born Kerry Harrison, February 13, 1965 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) is a former track and field athlete competing in triple jump.

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Kenta Bell

Kenta Bell (born March 16, 1977, in Kilgore, Texas) is an American track and field athlete who competes mainly in the triple jump.

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Khristo Markov

Khristo Ganchev Markov (Христо Ганчев Мaрков; born 27 January 1965, in Dimitrovgrad) is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for becoming Olympic champion in 1988.

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Kimberly Williams (triple jumper)

Kimberly Williams (born 3 November 1988) is a Jamaican triple jumper.

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Kobe

Kobe (Kōbe), officially, is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

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Kristin Gierisch

Kristin Gierisch (born 20 August 1990 in Zwickau) is a German athlete specialising in the triple jump.

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LaMark Carter

LaMark Carter (born August 23, 1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American former triple jumper.

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Lausanne

Lausanne (Losena) is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud.

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Lázaro Balcindes

Lázaro Balcindes (born 8 February 1963) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

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Lázaro Betancourt

Lázaro Betancourt (born 18 March 1963) is a retired male triple jumper from Cuba.

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Lázaro Martínez (triple jumper)

Lázaro Martínez Santray (born 3 November 1997) is a Cuban athlete who specialises in the triple jump and the long jump.

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Leonid Voloshin

Leonid Anatolyevich Voloshin (Леонид Анатолъевич Волошин; born 30 March 1966 in Ordzhonikidze) is a retired triple jumper from Russia.

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Leyanis Pérez

Leyanis Pérez Hernández (born 10 January 2002) is a Cuban athlete who has won medals at the World Athletics Championships and World Athletics Indoor Championships in the triple jump.

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Li Huirong

Li Huirong (born April 14, 1965) is a retired triple jumper from People's Republic of China, who set the first IAAF-recognized women's triple jump world record of 14.54 metres on August 25, 1990 at a meet in Sapporo, Japan.

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Li Yanxi

Li Yanxi (born June 26, 1984, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei) is a Chinese triple jumper.

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Liadagmis Povea

Liadagmis Povea Rodríguez (born 6 February 1996) is a Cuban athlete who specialises in the triple jump.

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Lima

Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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Linz

Linz (Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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List of African records in athletics

African records in athletics are the best marks set in track and field and road running events by an athlete who competes for a member nation of the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA).

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List of Asian records in athletics

Asian records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for a member nation of the Asian Athletics Association.

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List of European records in athletics

European records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the European Athletic Association.

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List of North, Central American and Caribbean records in athletics

North, Central American and Caribbean records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for a member nation of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC).

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List of Oceanian records in athletics

Oceanian records in the sport of athletics are ratified by the Oceania Athletics Association (OAA).

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List of South American records in athletics

South American records in athletics are the best marks set in an event by an athlete who competes for a member nation of Atletismo Sudamericano.

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List of world records in athletics

World records in athletics are ratified by World Athletics.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Long jump

The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Triple jump and long jump are events in track and field, jumping sports and summer Olympic disciplines in athletics.

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Lyukman Adams

Lyukman Rasakovich Adams (Люкман Расакович Адамс; born 24 September 1988, in St. Petersburg) is a Russian triple jumper.

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Mabel Gay

Mabel Gay Tamayo (born 5 May 1983 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban triple jumper.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.

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Maebashi

is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Magdelín Martínez

Magdelín Martínez Castillo (born February 10, 1976, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a Cuban-born female triple jumper, competing internationally for Italy.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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Marian Oprea

Marian Oprea (born 6 June 1982) is a Romanian athlete, competing in triple jump, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games.

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Marija Šestak

Marija Šestak (Марија Шестак; born Martinović, Мартиновић) is a Serbian-born Slovenian triple jumper.

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Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk

Maryna Oleksandrivna Bekh-Romanchuk (Мари́на Олександрівна БехРоманчу́к; born 18 July 1995) is a Ukrainian long jumper and triple jumper. She won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships in the long jump and the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships in the triple jump.

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Max Heß

Max Heß (born 13 July 1996) is a German track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump.

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Māris Bružiks

Māris Bružiks (born 25 August 1962 in Pļaviņas, Latvia) is a retired triple jumper who represented the USSR, and later, following its dissolution, Latvia.

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Melvin Lister

Melvin "Mel" Lister (born August 29, 1977, in New York City, New York) is an American long jumper and triple jumper.

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Metre per second

The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Mike Conley Sr.

Michael Alexander Conley Sr. (born October 5, 1962) is an American former track and field athlete who competed primarily in the triple jump and the long jump.

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Mikhail Bariban

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bariban (Михаил Михайлович Барибан; 25 February 1949 – 8 August 2016) was a Russian triple jumper who represented the USSR.

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Monaco

Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Mykola Musiyenko

Mykola Musiyenko (Микола Мусієнко, Николай Мусиенко – Nikolay Musiyenko; born 16 December 1959) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper who represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine.

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Nadezhda Alekhina

Nadezhda Alekhina, née Bazhenova (Надежда Алехина; born 22 September 1978) is a Russian triple jumper.

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Nelson Évora

Nelson Évora GCIH (born 20 April 1984) is an Ivory Coast-born Portuguese track and field athlete of Cape Verdean descent who specializes in the triple jump.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Odessa, Texas

Odessa is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County.

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Oksana Udmurtova

Oksana Pavlovna Udmurtova (Оксана Павловна Удмуртова) (born 1 February 1982) is a Russian track and field athlete specialising in the long jump.

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Oleg Protsenko

Oleg Valeryevich Protsenko (Олег Валерьевич Проценко; born 11 August 1963 in Soltsy, Novgorod, USSR) is a former Soviet athlete.

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Olga Rypakova

Olga Rypakova Alekseyeva; 30 November 1984) is a former Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.

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Olha Saladukha

Olha Saladuha (Ольга Валеріївна Саладуха, born 4 June 1983) is a Ukrainian former triple jumper.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Osaka

is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan, and one of the three major cities of Japan (Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya).

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Paolo Camossi

Paolo Camossi (born 6 January 1974) is an Italian coach and former triple jumper, best known for his gold medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships.

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Paraskevi Papachristou

Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou (Παρασκευή (Βούλα) Παπαχρήστου; born 17 April 1989) is a former Greek triple jumper and long jumper.

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Paraskevi Tsiamita

Paraskevi "Voula" Tsiamita (Παρασκευή Τσιαμήτα,, born 10 March 1972) is a Greek former track and field athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pedro Pérez

Pedro Damián Pérez Dueñas (February 23, 1952 – July 18, 2018) was a Cuban triple jumper, who set the world record in the men's triple jump event on August 5, 1971, jumping 17.40 metres, while still a 19-year-old Junior athlete, in the final of the Pan American Games.

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Pedro Pichardo

Pedro Pablo Pichardo Peralta (born 30 June 1993) is a Cuban-born Portuguese triple jumper who holds the current Olympic and European titles.

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Phillips Idowu

Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu, (born 30 December 1978) is a British athlete who specialised in the triple jump and was active at elite level between 2000 and 2014.

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Pierre Camara

Pierre Camara (born 15 September 1965) is a retired French triple jumper, best known for his triple jump gold medal at the 1993 World Indoor Championships.

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Plasticine

Plasticine is a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and aliphatic acids.

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Provo, Utah

Provo is a city in and the county seat of Utah County, Utah, United States.

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Rabat

Rabat (also,; ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.

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Radès

Radès (رادس) is a harbour city in Ben Arous Governorate, Tunisia.

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Recea, Argeș

Recea is a commune in the south of Argeș County, Muntenia, Romania, having a population of 3,272 (2002 census).

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Ren Ruiping

Ren Ruiping (born February 1, 1976, in Shandong) is a Chinese female triple jumper.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro.

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Rodica Mateescu

Rodica Mateescu (born Rodica Petrescu on March 13, 1971 in Bucharest) is a former triple jumper from Romania.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Sacramento, California

() is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis

Saint-Denis is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Salamanca

Salamanca is a municipality and city in Spain, capital of the province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Samara

Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule, is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia.

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San Jose, California

San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Sapporo

(lit) is a city in Japan.

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Seoul

Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.

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Serge Hélan

Serge Hélan (born 24 February 1964 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe) is a retired French triple jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1995 World Indoor Championships.

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Seville

Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.

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Shanieka Ricketts

Shanieka Ricketts (born 2 February 1992) is a Jamaican athlete whose specialty is the triple jump.

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Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province.

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Sindelfingen

Sindelfingen (Swabian: Sendlfenga) is a city in Baden-Württemberg in south Germany.

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Sochi

Sochi (a, from Шъуача – seaside) is the largest resort city in Russia.

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Sofia

Sofia (Sofiya) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Sofiya Bozhanova

Sofiya Bozhanova (София Божанова) (born 4 October 1967) is a retired long and triple jumper from Bulgaria.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Split, Croatia

Split (Spalato:; see other names), is the second-largest city of Croatia after the capital Zagreb, the largest city in Dalmatia and the largest city on the Croatian coast.

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Standing triple jump

Standing triple jump is an athletics event based on the conventional triple jump with three jumping phases, but without an approach run-up. Triple jump and Standing triple jump are events in track and field.

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Stara Zagora

Stara Zagora (Стара Загора) is a city in Bulgaria, and the administrative capital of Stara Zagora Province.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Stuttgart

Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

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Sukhumi

Sukhumi (see also other names) is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweißenburg; Alba Regia;; Serbian: Стони Београд), known colloquially as Fehérvár, is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city.

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Tailteann Games (ancient)

The Tailteann Games, Tailtin Fair, Áenach Tailteann, Aonach Tailteann, Assembly of Talti, Fair of Taltiu or Festival of Taltii were funeral games associated with the semi-legendary history of Pre-Christian Ireland.

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Tartu

Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn.

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Tatyana Lebedeva

Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva (Татьяна Романовна Лебедева, born 21 July 1976) is a Russian track and field athlete who competes in both the long jump and triple jump events.

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Teddy Tamgho

Teddy Tamgho (born 15 June 1989) is a French triple jumper and long jumper.

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Tereza Marinova

Tereza Moncheva Marinova (Тереза Мончева Маринова; born 5 September 1977 in Pleven) is a Bulgarian athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

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Thea LaFond

Thea Noeliva LaFond (born April 5, 1994) is a Dominican track and field athlete who competes in the triple jump.

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Tiago Pereira (athlete)

Tiago João Luís Pereira (born 19 September 1993) is a Portuguese athlete who competes for Portugal and the sports club Sporting of Portugal.

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Tiombe Hurd

Tiombe Hurd (born August 17, 1973, in Seattle, Washington) is an American triple jumper.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tord Henriksson

Tord Erik Stefan Henriksson (born 13 April 1965) is a retired Swedish triple jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1991 World Indoor Championships.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Toruń

Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Track and field

Athletics (or track and field in the United States) is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills.

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Trecia-Kaye Smith

Trecia-Kaye Smith (born 5 November 1975 in Westmoreland, Jamaica) is a retired Jamaican athlete who competed mainly in the triple jump.

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Triple jump world record progression

The following table shows the world record progression in the men's and women's triple jump, officially ratified by the IAAF.

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Valencia

Valencia (officially in Valencian: València) is the capital of the province and autonomous community of the same name in Spain.

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Vasiliy Grishchenkov

Vasily Grishchenkov (Василий Грищенков) born 23 January 1958) is a retired triple jumper from the Soviet Union, best known for winning the silver medal at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. He set the world's best year performance in 1983 with a leap of 17.55 metres (personal best), achieved on 19 June 1983 in Moscow.

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Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

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Viktor Saneyev

Viktor Danilovich Saneyev (Виктор Данилович Санеев; Vikt’or Saneevi; 3 October 1945 – 3 January 2022) was a Georgian triple jumper who competed internationally for the USSR.

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Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Villeneuve-d'Ascq (Neuvile-Ask) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Volodymyr Inozemtsev

Volodymyr Inozemtsev (Володимир Іноземцев; 25 May 1964 – 4 February 2020) was a triple jumper from Ukraine.

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Walter Davis (triple jumper)

Walter L. Davis (born July 2, 1979) is an American athlete competing in the triple jump and occasionally in the long jump.

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Will Claye

Will Claye (born June 13, 1991) is an American track and field athlete of Sierra Leonean descent who competes in the long jump and triple jump.

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Willie Banks

William Augustus Banks III (born March 11, 1956) is an American athlete.

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Wind assistance

In track and field, wind assistance is the benefit that an athlete receives during a race or event as registered by a wind gauge.

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World Athletics

World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation and International Association of Athletics Federations and formerly abbreviated as the IAAF, is the international governing body for the sport of athletics, covering track and field, cross country running, road running, race walking, mountain running, and ultra running.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump

Also known as Hop skip jump, Hop step and jump, Hop, skip and jump, Hop, skip, and a jump, Hop, step and jump, Triple jumper, Triple-jump.

Triple jump, the Glossary

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