# 2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump

The Women's Triple Jump at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics will be held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. Cuban Yargelis Savigne had registered nine of the ten farthest jumps pre-championships and was seen as a strong favourite. The twice world gold medallist Tatyana Lebedeva and world-leader Nadezhda Alekhina were also considered possible medallists. The reigning Olympic champion, Françoise Mbango, had failed to perform well in the buildup to the championships and did not start the competition.
In the qualifying rounds, Asian record holder Xie Limei had the biggest jump of the day with 14.62 m, improving on her previous season's best by more than 40 cm. Savigne, Lebedeva, and Mabel Gay were the only other athletes to reach the 14.45 m automatic qualifying mark in what was a largely modest qualifying round.
The jumps in the final of the competition were not of the standard shown in previous years, and favourite Savigne was largely unchallenged. She took the gold with a best of 14.95 m to become only the second athlete to win consecutive world titles in the event (after Lebedeva's 2001 and 2003 double). Second-placed Gay (14.61) won her first ever World Championship medal and Pyatykh reached the podium with a mark of 14.58 m. Biljana Topic set a Serbian record of 14.52 m for fourth place, but no other athletes managed beyond 14.50 m.

## Medalists

| Gold | Yargelis Savigne Cuba (CUB) |
| Silver | Mabel Gay Cuba (CUB) |
| Bronze | Anna Pyatykh Russia (RUS) |

## Records

| World record | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10 August 1995 |
| Championship record | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10 August 1995 |
| World leading | Nadezhda Bazhenova-Alekhina (RUS) | 15.14 | Cheboksary, Russia | 26 July 2009 |
| African record | Françoise Mbango Etone (CMR) | 15.39 | Beijing, China | 17 August 2008 |
| Asian record | Olga Rypakova (KAZ) | 15.11 | Beijing, China | 17 August 2008 |
| North American record | Yamilé Aldama (CUB) | 15.29 | Rome, Italy | 11 July 2003 |
| South American record | Keila Costa (BRA) | 14.57 | São Paulo, Brazil | 9 June 2007 |
| European record | Inessa Kravets (UKR) | 15.50 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 10 August 1995 |
| Oceanian record | Nicole Mladenis (AUS) | 14.04 | Hobart, Australia | 9 March 2002 |

## Qualification standards

| A standard | B standard |
| 14.20m | 14.00m |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| August 15, 2009 | 11:00 | Qualification |
| August 17, 2009 | 20:00 | Final |

## Results
### Qualification

Qualification: Qualifying Performance 14.45 (Q) or at least 12 best performers (q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Group | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | Result | Notes |
| 1 | B | Xie Limei | China (CHN) | 14.62 | | | 14.62 | Q, SB |
| 2 | A | Yargelis Savigne | Cuba (CUB) | x | 14.53 | | 14.53 | Q |
| 3 | B | Mabel Gay | Cuba (CUB) | x | 14.53 | | 14.53 | Q |
| 4 | A | Tatyana Lebedeva | Russia (RUS) | 14.45 | | | 14.45 | Q, Doping |
| 5 | B | Biljana Topić | Serbia (SRB) | 14.37 | 13.80 | – | 14.37 | q, SB |
| 6 | A | Teresa Nzola Meso Ba | France (FRA) | x | 13.87 | 14.32 | 14.32 | q |
| 7 | B | Cristina Bujin | Romania (ROM) | 14.22 | 12.82 | 14.29 | 14.29 | q |
| 8 | A | Anna Pyatykh | Russia (RUS) | x | 14.01 | 14.27 | 14.27 | q |
| 9 | A | Dana Velďáková | Slovakia (SVK) | x | 14.25 | 14.20 | 14.25 | q |
| 10 | B | Trecia-Kaye Smith | Jamaica (JAM) | x | x | 14.21 | 14.21 | q |
| 11 | B | Gisele de Oliveira | Brazil (BRA) | 13.70 | 13.79 | 14.14 | 14.14 | q |
| 12 | B | Olga Rypakova | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 14.02 | x | 14.13 | 14.13 | q |
| 13 | A | Yamilé Aldama | Sudan (SUD) | 13.96 | 13.83 | 14.11 | 14.11 | |
| 14 | A | Petia Dacheva | Bulgaria (BUL) | 13.63 | 13.56 | 14.11 | 14.11 | |
| 15 | A | Kimberly Williams | Jamaica (JAM) | x | 14.08 | x | 14.08 | PB |
| 16 | B | Małgorzata Trybańska | Poland (POL) | x | 14.06 | 13.80 | 14.06 | |
| 17 | B | Shakeema Walker-Welsch | United States (USA) | x | x | 14.01 | 14.01 | |
| 18 | B | Svitlana Mamyeyeva | Ukraine (UKR) | 13.92 | 13.35 | 13.70 | 13.92 | |
| 19 | A | Snežana Rodic | Slovenia (SLO) | 13.92 | x | x | 13.92 | |
| 20 | A | Svetlana Bolshakova | Belgium (BEL) | 13.89 | x | 13.73 | 13.89 | |
| 21 | A | Magdelín Martínez | Italy (ITA) | 13.80 | 13.72 | 13.87 | 13.87 | |
| 22 | A | Martina Šestáková | Czech Republic (CZE) | x | 13.69 | 13.84 | 13.84 | |
| 23 | A | Irina Litvinenko | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 13.63 | 13.77 | 13.82 | 13.82 | |
| 24 | B | Nataliya Yastrebova | Ukraine (UKR) | x | 13.58 | 13.74 | 13.74 | |
| 25 | B | Athanasia Perra | Greece (GRE) | 13.69 | x | x | 13.69 | |
| 25 | B | Marija Šestak | Slovenia (SLO) | x | x | 13.69 | 13.69 | |
| 27 | A | Shani Marks | United States (USA) | x | x | 13.67 | 13.67 | |
| 28 | B | Nadezhda Alekhina | Russia (RUS) | x | x | 13.60 | 13.60 | |
| 29 | A | Paraskevi Papahristou | Greece (GRE) | 13.58 | x | 13.58 | 13.58 | |
| 30 | B | Vanessa Gladone | France (FRA) | 13.51 | 13.42 | 13.40 | 13.51 | |
| 31 | A | Liliya Kulyk | Ukraine (UKR) | 13.37 | 13.41 | 13.41 | 13.41 | |
| 32 | A | Erica McLain | United States (USA) | 13.34 | x | 13.39 | 13.39 | |
| 33 | A | Patricia Sylvester | Grenada (GRN) | 13.22 | 13.05 | 12.98 | 13.22 | |
| 34 | B | Katja Demut | Germany (GER) | x | 11.38 | x | 11.38 | |
| | B | Françoise Mbango Etone | Cameroon (CMR) | | | | | DNS |
Key: DNS = Did not start, PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
| | Yargelis Savigne | Cuba (CUB) | 14.45 | 14.14 | 14.89 | 14.85 | 14.95 | 14.39 | 14.95 | |
| | Mabel Gay | Cuba (CUB) | 13.87 | 14.50 | x | 14.61 | 14.48 | 14.04 | 14.61 | SB |
| | Anna Pyatykh | Russia (RUS) | 13.72 | 14.23 | 13.66 | 14.58 | 14.46 | 14.53 | 14.58 | |
| 4 | Biljana Topić | Serbia (SRB) | 14.21 | 14.38 | 14.27 | 14.52 | 14.43 | 14.10 | 14.52 | NR |
| 5 | Trecia-Kaye Smith | Jamaica (JAM) | 14.31 | x | x | 14.41 | 14.48 | x | 14.48 | SB |
| 6 | Cristina Bujin | Romania (ROM) | 14.26 | 14.00 | 14.03 | 14.20 | 14.16 | 14.15 | 14.26 | |
| 7 | Dana Velďáková | Slovakia (SVK) | 14.25 | x | 12.86 | 14.14 | 14.19 | 14.13 | 14.25 | |
| 8 | Xie Limei | China (CHN) | 14.16 | 11.46 | 14.06 | | | | 14.16 | |
| 9 | Olga Rypakova | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | x | 13.91 | 13.71 | | | | 13.91 | |
| 10 | Teresa Nzola Meso Ba | France (FRA) | 13.77 | 13.79 | x | | | | 13.79 | |
| 11 | Gisele de Oliveira | Brazil (BRA) | x | 13.19 | – | | | | 13.19 | |
| DQ | Tatyana Lebedeva | Russia (RUS) | x | 14.37 | 14.23 | 14.22 | 14.26 | 14.28 | 14.37 | Doping |
Key: NR = National record, SB = Seasonal best