In total, more than 2,000 athletes from 201 countries will compete at the World Championships in Beijing. Forty-seven sets of medals will be contested, and the top eight athletes in each discipline will receive prize money from the IAAF organizers. Thus, each champion will become $60,000 richer.
Olga Rypakova’s opponents consisted of 27 athletes from various countries around the world. In the triple jump, she was not the only one of our compatriots. The Olympic Champion was joined by Irina Ektova from the North Kazakhstan Region. Unfortunately, she was not destined to reach the final — out of three qualifying attempts, two resulted in fouls. Her only successful jump was mediocre — 13.61 m, which is quite unlike the Ektova who recently achieved jumps over the 14 m mark.
Everything is perfectly fine for Rypakova. She did not have to stay in the sector for long — her very first attempt of 14.33 m secured her spot in the World Championship final. Incidentally, the athlete from Ust-Kamenogorsk showed the fourth-best result in the qualification. Better results were only shown by the World Champion Olha Saladukha from Ukraine, the main favorite of this championship Caterine Ibargüen from Colombia, and, in what can be considered a sensation, the Bulgarian jumper Gabriela Petrova with a jump of 14.44 m! Aside from the aforementioned four, the following qualified for the final: Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (Israel), Kimberly Williams and Shanieka Thomas (both from Jamaica), Ekaterina Koneva (Russia), Jeanine Assani Issouf (France), Kristin Gierisch (Germany), and Yosiris Urrutia (Colombia).
The triple jump final will take place on August 24 at 17:30.
Source: vksport.kz
Дереккөз: vksport.kz
