Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump
| Women's triple jump at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 13 August 2016 (qualification) 14 August 2016 (final) |
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| Competitors | 37 from 25 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning distance | 15.17 m | ||||||||||||
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Caterine Ibargüen |
 Colombia
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Yulimar Rojas |
 Venezuela
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Olga Rypakova |
 Kazakhstan
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The Women's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 13–14 August.
Before the competition, 2015 World Champion Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia had the longest jump of the season with 15.04 m. Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova entered as the defending Olympic champion from 2012 and had been the first athlete to beat Ibargüen that year, ending her rival's 34-meet-long winning streak. Twenty-year-old Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas was the only other athlete over fifteen metres that season and had won the 2016 World Indoor Championships. The remaining top challengers formed the 2016 European Championships podium – Patricia Mamona of Portugal, Greek jumper Paraskeví Papahrístou (third on the world rankings), and 2015 world medallist Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko of Israel.
Ibargüen topped qualifying with her sole jump of 14.52 m. Papahrístou and Rypakova were the only other automatic qualifiers, both requiring two attempts. It took 14.08 m to make the final. All the main contenders progressed with Germany's Kristin Gierisch and Finn Kristiina Mäkelä posting the next best marks. A 2012 Olympic medallist and former world champion, Olha Saladuha of Ukraine, failed to progress.
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