The following table shows the world record progression in the men's and women's triple jump, officially ratified by the IAAF.

Men

Ratified
Not ratified
Ratified but later rescinded
Pending ratification

The first world record in the men's triple jump was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. That inaugural record was the 15.52 m performance by Dan Ahearn in 1911.[1]

As of June 21, 2009, 27 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event.[1] The men's triple jump world record is unusual in that on five occasions a new record has been set and then broken again on the same day.

Mark Wind Athlete Date Venue Duration of record
15.52 m (50 ft 11 in)  Dan Ahearn (USA) 1911-05-3030 May 1911 New York City, U.S.[1] 13 years, 1 month and 12 days
15.52 m (50 ft 11 in)  Nick Winter (AUS) 1924-07-1212 July 1924 Paris, France[1] 7 years, 3 months and 15 days
15.58 m (51 ft 1+1⁄4 in)  Mikio Oda (JPN) 1931-10-2727 October 1931 Tokyo, Japan[1] 9 months and 18 days
15.72 m (51 ft 6+3⁄4 in)  Chuhei Nambu (JPN) 1932-08-144 August 1932 Los Angeles, U.S.[1] 3 years and 4 months
15.78 m (51 ft 9+1⁄4 in)  Jack Metcalfe (AUS) 1935-12-1414 December 1935 Sydney, Australia[1] 7 months and 23 days
16.00 m (52 ft 5+3⁄4 in) 0.6  Naoto Tajima (JPN) 1936-08-066 August 1936 Berlin, Germany[1] 14 years, 3 months and 27 days
16.00 m (52 ft 5+3⁄4 in) 1.6  Adhemar da Silva (BRA) 1950-12-033 December 1950 São Paulo, Brazil[1] 9 months and 27 days
16.01 m (52 ft 6+1⁄4 in) 1.2  Adhemar da Silva (BRA) 1951-09-3030 September 1951 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil[1] 9 months and 23 days
16.12 m (52 ft 10+1⁄2 in)  Adhemar da Silva (BRA) 1952-07-2323 July 1952 Helsinki, Finland[1] 0 days
16.22 m (53 ft 2+1⁄2 in)  Adhemar da Silva (BRA) 1952-07-2323 July 1952 Helsinki, Finland[1] 11 months and 26 days
16.23 m (53 ft 2+3⁄4 in) 1.5  Leonid Shcherbakov (URS) 1953-07-1919 July 1953 Moscow, Soviet Union[1] 1 year, 7 months and 25 days
16.56 m (54 ft 3+3⁄4 in) A 0.2  Adhemar da Silva (BRA) 1955-03-1616 March 1955 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 3 years, 4 months and 12 days
16.59 m (54 ft 5 in) 1.0  Oleg Ryakhovskiy (URS) 1958-07-2828 July 1958 Moscow, Soviet Union[1] 9 months and 5 days
16.70 m (54 ft 9+1⁄4 in) 0.0  Oleg Fyodoseyev (URS) 1959-05-033 May 1959 Nalchik, Soviet Union[1] 1 year, 3 months and 2 days
17.03 m (55 ft 10+1⁄4 in) 1.0  Józef Szmidt (POL) 1960-08-055 August 1960 Olsztyn, Poland[1] 8 years, 2 months and 11 days
17.10 m (56 ft 1 in) A 0.0  Giuseppe Gentile (ITA) 1968-10-1616 October 1968 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 1 day
17.22 m (56 ft 5+3⁄4 in) A 0.0  Giuseppe Gentile (ITA) 1968-10-1717 October 1968 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 0 days
17.23 m (56 ft 6+1⁄4 in) A 2.0  Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) 1968-10-1717 October 1968 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 0 days
17.27 m (56 ft 7+3⁄4 in) A 2.0  Nelson Prudêncio (BRA) 1968-10-1717 October 1968 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 0 days
17.39 m (57 ft 1⁄2 in) A 2.0  Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) 1968-10-1717 October 1968 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 2 years, 9 months and 19 days
17.40 m (57 ft 1 in) A 0.4  Pedro Pérez (CUB) 1971-08-055 August 1971 Cali, Colombia[1] 1 year, 2 months and 10 days
17.44 m (57 ft 2+1⁄2 in) -0.5  Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) 1972-10-1717 October 1972 Sukhumi, Soviet Union[1] 2 years, 11 months and 28 days
17.89 m (58 ft 8+1⁄4 in) A 0.0  João Carlos de Oliveira (BRA) 1975-10-1515 October 1975 Mexico City, Mexico[1] 9 years, 8 months and 1 day
17.97 m (58 ft 11+1⁄4 in) 1.5  Willie Banks (USA) 1985-06-1616 June 1985 Indianapolis, U.S.[1] 10 years, 1 month and 2 days
17.98 m (58 ft 11+3⁄4 in) 1.8  Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 1995-07-1818 July 1995 Salamanca, Spain[1] 20 days
18.16 m (59 ft 6+3⁄4 in) 1.3  Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 1995-08-077 August 1995 Gothenburg, Sweden[1] 20 minutes
18.29 m (60 ft 0 in) 1.3  Jonathan Edwards (GBR) 1995-08-077 August 1995 Gothenburg, Sweden[1] 28 years, 6 months

Women

Yulimar Rojas landing the world record triple jump at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade on 20 March 2022

The first world record in the women's triple jump was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1990.

As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified 5 world records in the event.[2]

Unofficial pre-IAAF progression to 1990

Mark Athlete Date Venue
10.32 m (33 ft 10+1⁄4 in)  Elizabeth Stine (USA) 1922-05-1313 May 1922 Mamaroneck, U.S.
10.50 m (34 ft 5+1⁄4 in)  Adrienne Kaenel (SUI) 1923-07-2323 July 1923 Geneva, Switzerland
11.62 m (38 ft 1+1⁄4 in)  Kinue Hitomi (JPN) 1926-10-1717 October 1926 Harbin, China
11.66 m (38 ft 3 in)  Rie Yamaguchi (JPN) 1939-10-2121 October 1939 Unknown
12.22 m (40 ft 1 in)  Mary Bignal (GBR) 1959-06-1818 June 1959 Street, United Kingdom
12.43 m (40 ft 9+1⁄4 in)  Terri Turner (USA) 1981-05-099 May 1981 Austin, U.S.
12.47 m (40 ft 10+3⁄4 in)  Terri Turner (USA) 1982-05-077 May 1982 Austin, U.S.
12.51 m (41 ft 1⁄2 in)  Melody Smith (USA) 1983-05-066 May 1983 Austin, U.S.
12.98 m (42 ft 7 in)  Easter Gabriel (USA) 1983-05-077 May 1983 Baton Rouge, U.S.
13.15 m (43 ft 1+1⁄2 in)  Terri Turner (USA) 1984-03-2424 March 1984 Austin, U.S.
13.21 m (43 ft 4 in)  Terri Turner (USA) 1984-04-1313 April 1984 Baton Rouge, U.S.
13.58 m (44 ft 6+1⁄2 in)  Wendy Brown (USA) 1985-05-3030 May 1985 Austin, U.S.
13.68 m (44 ft 10+1⁄2 in)  Esmeralda Garcia (BRA) 1986-06-055 June 1986 Indianapolis, U.S.
13.71 m (44 ft 11+3⁄4 in)  Wendy Brown (USA) 1987-05-022 May 1987 Los Angeles, U.S.
13.73 m (45 ft 1⁄2 in)  Flora Hyacinth (ISV) 1987-05-1717 May 1987 Tuscaloosa, U.S.
13.78 m (45 ft 2+1⁄2 in)  Sheila Hudson (USA) 1987-06-066 June 1987 Baton Rouge, U.S.
13.85 m (45 ft 5+1⁄4 in)  Sheila Hudson (USA) 1987-06-2626 June 1987 San Jose, U.S.
14.04 m (46 ft 3⁄4 in)  Li Huirong (CHN) 1987-10-1111 October 1987 Hamamatsu, Japan
14.16 m (46 ft 5+1⁄4 in)  Li Huirong (CHN) 1988-04-2323 April 1988 Shijiazhuang, PR China
14.52 m (47 ft 7+1⁄2 in)  Galina Chistyakova (URS) 1989-07-022 July 1989 Stockholm, Sweden

Official IAAF progression from 1990

Mark Wind Athlete Date Venue Duration of record
14.54 m (47 ft 8+1⁄4 in) 1.1  Li Huirong (CHN) 1990-08-2525 August 1990 Sapporo, Japan[2] 9 months and 16 days
14.95 m (49 ft 1⁄2 in) -0.2  Inessa Kravets (URS) 1991-06-1010 June 1991 Moscow, Soviet Union[2] 2 years and 8 days
14.97 m (49 ft 1+1⁄4 in) 0.9  Iolanda Chen (RUS) 1993-06-1818 June 1993 Moscow, Russia[2] 2 months and 3 days
15.09 m (49 ft 6 in) 0.5  Anna Biryukova (RUS) 1993-08-2121 August 1993 Stuttgart, Germany[2] 1 year, 11 months and 20 days
15.50 m (50 ft 10 in) 0.9  Inessa Kravets (UKR) 1995-08-1010 August 1995 Gothenburg, Sweden[2] 25 years, 11 months and 22 days
15.67 m (51 ft 4+3⁄4 in) 0.7  Yulimar Rojas (VEN) 2021-08-011 August 2021 Tokyo, Japan 7 months and 19 days
15.74 m (51 ft 7+1⁄2 in) indoor  Yulimar Rojas (VEN) 2022-03-2020 March 2022 Belgrade, Serbia 1 year, 11 months and 3 days

Women's triple jump progression controversy

Inessa Kravets was found guilty of doping offenses in 1993, after her 1991 record and before setting her long-standing 1995 record. She was later banned for two years in 2000, leading many to doubt the legitimacy of her performance.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Pages 546, 556. Archived from the original (pdf) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (pdf). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. 546, 646. Retrieved August 5, 2009.
  3. ^ "UK Athletics calls for all world records to be reset due to doping crisis". The Guardian. Associated Press. 2016-01-11. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  4. ^ Aldama, Yamilé (2012-06-30). "I am a clean athlete but only a fool would believe my sport is". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-09-27.
  5. ^ "Yulimar Rojas smashes world triple jump record in Tokyo". Athletics Weekly. 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
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