Knyazyeva-Minenko lands a national record
Caterine Ibarguen of Colombia celebrates after winning gold in the Women's Triple Jump final during day three of the 15th IAAF World Athletics Championships Beijing 2015 at Beijing National Stadium on August 24, 2015 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for IAAF)
It was an evening to remember, too, for Israel’s Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko and Kazakhstan’s Olga Rypakova as they won silver and bronze respectively in the triple jump.
It was some competition for Knyazyeva-Minenko who began with a foul before launching herself to 14.78m, a national record, in the second round but Columbia’s defending champion Caterine Ibarguen led with 14.80m which she then increased to 14.90m in the fourth round.
Knyazyeva-Minenko had only more legal effort, her 14.53m in the third round, but she was left holding her breath no doubt as Rypakova’s last jump was her best, with the distance measured at 14.77m, a centimetre short.
