On the twenty-fourth of August, the final Diamond League competitions were held in Switzerland, in which Kazakh athlete Olga Rypakova became the best with a score of 14.55 m.
Since the beginning of June, we have been following every “step” of the Diamond League 2017 with bated breath, and yesterday the final stage of one of the most elite athletics competitions took place at the Letzigrund stadium. In addition to Rypakova, seven other athletes came to Zurich to compete in the women’s triple jump: 2017 world champion Yulimar Rojas, Colombian jumper Catherine Ibarguen, Kimberly Williams from Jamaica, Israeli athlete Hannah Knyazeva-Minenko, Patricia Mamona from Portugal, Polish athlete Anna Yagachik and Elena Panturoy from Romania. And as usual, the farthest jumps were shown by the star trio of Rypakov-Rojas-Ibarguen.
In the first attempt, the main athlete of our country “flew away” by 14.38 m and took first place in the final protocol. In attempt number two, Katerina Ibarguen still managed to show a jump further – 14.47 m, and dislodge Olga, but, as it turned out, not for long. In the third attempt, Rypakova landed at the 14.55 m mark – and just this result allowed the Kazakh jumper to stay in first place and rightfully get the title of the best. In the fourth attempt to show a “similar” jump, Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas came out with 14.52 m, but Katerina Ibarguen failed to improve the result shown in the second attempt, and she took third place.
Recall that Olga Rypakova managed to win the Diamond League for the second time, for the first time our athlete took the first place in this series of competitions in 2012.
Inna Semenyak
