Olympic triple jump : Kazakhstan’s Rypakova leaps to gold
August 6th, 2012 - 4:02 am ICT by IANSLondon, Aug 6 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan took Olympic gold in the women’s triple jump Sunday.
Rypakova, the world silver medalist, took the title with a third-round jump of 14.98 metres, a season’s best.
Daegu bronze medalist Caterine Ibarguen snatched a dramatic silver by a single centimetre with a last-round jump of 14.80.
World champion Olha Saladuha of Ukraine thought she had silver in the bag with 14.79 but was bumped down to bronze at the death.
Defending champion Tatyana Lebedeva, 36, ended her quest for a sixth Olympic medal when she failed to make the cut, unable to improve on a first-round jump of 14.11.
Lebedeva, who won silvers in Sydney and Beijing as well as a bronze in Athens, led a Russian podium sweep in the regular long jump in 2004.
–IANS/RIA Novosti
sd
- Olympic athletics: Kazakhstan's Rypakova leaps to triple jump gold - Aug 06, 2012
- Olympic diving : Chen retains 10m diving title in style - Aug 10, 2012
- Olympic athletics: Felix wins 200m gold - Aug 09, 2012
- Olympic athletics: Sanchez storms to men's 400m hurdles gold - Aug 07, 2012
- Olympic 5,000m: Ethiopia's Defar stuns Dibaba for gold - Aug 11, 2012
- Olympic modern pentathlon: Lithuania's Asadauskaite wins last gold - Aug 13, 2012
- Olympics: Gelana wins gold in women's marathon - Aug 05, 2012
- Olympics: Kemboi wins 3,000m steeplechase for Kenya - Aug 06, 2012
- Olympic athletics: Merritt hurdles to 110m gold for US - Aug 09, 2012
- Olympic wrestling: Rezaei wins gold for Iran - Aug 08, 2012
- Ethiopia's Dibaba retains 10,000m Olympic title - Aug 04, 2012
- Olympic shot put: Ostapchuk wins gold for Belarus - Aug 07, 2012
- Olympic long jump : America's Reese wins women's gold - Aug 09, 2012
- Olympic athletics: US women power to 4x400m relay gold - Aug 12, 2012
- Olympic javelin: Spotakova wins gold, retains title - Aug 10, 2012
Tags: athens, beijing, bronze medalist, centimetre, defending champion, leaps, lebedeva, london, long jump, olga rypakova, olympic gold, olympic medal, podium, ria novosti, sydney, triple jump, ukraine, world champion, world silver medalist