Olga Rypakova became the third at the stage in Birmingham
The fourth stage of the Diamond League was held in Birmingham today, where 2012 Olympic champion Olga Rypakova performed in the triple jump. It should be recalled that recently the World Championships were held in London, in which the most famous track and field athlete of Kazakhstan Olga Rypakova won the bronze medal, Colombian athlete Catherine Ibarguen took second place, and Yulimar Rojas from Venezuela became the world champion. Today, these three world stars of athletics took to the track again, but they settled down in the final protocol of the jumper, to put it mildly, chaotically, and for good reason. – The competition was difficult. – Denis Rypakov tells us. – It was very cold, it felt about sixteen degrees. A long jump plug was also installed in the sector. And when the girls got on it, the jump was not quite complete. Olga’s first attempt was small – 14.15 m, her leg was giving way, we can say there was a technical gap in the organization. Those who had distant jumps flew over the bar, for example, Williams. By the fifth and sixth attempts, Olga had already run up, and this run was powerful, but there were small spades of 3 cm, and in the sixth 0.5 cm at all, and these attempts were over 14.70 m. And this gives us hope for Zurich! In the final protocol of the fourth stage of one of the most elite competitions, the girls arranged themselves as follows: 1. Catherine Ibarguen (Colombia) – 14.51 m 2. Kimberly Williams (Jamaica) – 14.44 m 3. OLGA RYPAKOVA (Kazakhstan) – 14.29 m Inna Semenyak
Olga Rypakova: “It is impossible to relax now. There are three more starts ahead!”
Today in the English city of Birmingham, the fourth stage of the Diamond League will be held in women’s triple jump. On the seventeenth of August, the most productive Athlete of Kazakhstan Olga Rypakova went from Ust – Kamenogorsk to England for the next round of the Diamond League, where she will again meet her main rivals-Yulimar Rojas and Katerin Ibarguen, and it remains only to guess how the jumpers will perform this time, because they will not be able to forget about the fight at the World Cup for a long time! Together with them will compete two representatives of Jamaica Kimberly Williams and Shanika Ricketts, Anna Knyazeva-Minenko from Israel, Polish athlete Anna Jagachak, the famous Portuguese athlete Patricia Mamona and Janine Assani-Issuf from France. Today we got in touch with the head of the East Kazakhstan Athletics Federation Denis Rypakov and Olga herself and learned a little about the mood of our athlete before the stage. – Olga, you recently flew from the World Cup in London, and now went to England again, but now to Birmingham for the fourth stage of the Diamond League. Is it difficult to compete in this mode? – We planned to prepare, taking into account the same schedule, knowing when these competitions will be held. The main start of the season, of course, is over, and even the relief inside is felt, because the main thing that we were preparing so hard has already passed, and it has succeeded! But it is impossible to relax, we are preparing further, because ahead is two more stages of the Diamond League and the Asian Games in the premises, which will be held in Ashgabat in September… – These starts are more positive than the previous ones, because the most important thing is the ones that are left behind. Girls compete as they are. But this stage should go better than the second and third! – added Denis Rypakov. The start of the race is at 15:28 local time. Inna Semenyak