Olga Rypakova

Olga Rypakova

Olga Rypakova during 2010 Memorial Van Damme
Personal information
Full name	Ольга Сергеевна Рыпакова
National team	Kazakhstan
Born	(1984-11-30) 30 November 1984 (age 32) Oskemen, East Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	Kazakhstan
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Triple jump, Long Jump
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Triple jump 2012 London Triple jump 2016 Rio de Janeiro Triple jump World Championships 2011 Daegu Triple jump 2015 Beijing Triple jump World Indoor Championships 2010 Doha Triple jump 2012 Istanbul Triple jump 2008 Valence Triple jump Asian Games 2006 Doha Heptathlon 2010 Guangzhou Triple jump 2014 Incheon Triple jump 2010 Guangzhou Long jump 2006 Doha Long jump Asian Indoor Games 2005 Pattaya Pentathlon 2009 Hanoi Long jump 2009 Hanoi Triple jump
Updated on 24 August 2015.

Olga Rypakova (Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Рыпакова; née Alekseyeva; 30 November 1984) is a Kazakhstan track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.

She competed in both jumping events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and finished fourth in the triple jump with an Asian record of 15.11 metres. Rypakova has represented Kazakhstan at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She reached the world podium for the first time at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where she took gold with an Asian indoor record jump of 15.14 m. She won the gold medal in triple jump at the 2012 London Olympics.

Born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, she entered her first world junior competition at the age of sixteen and finished eleventh in the long jump qualifying round of the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She was more successful in the heptathlon: she finished fourth at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics and went on to take the silver at the following year's World Junior Championships behind the emerging Carolina Klüft. Rypakova also became Kazakhstan's national heptathlon champion that year. She persisted with combined events and started competing on the international circuit, finishing fifth with a season's best at the Multistars competition in 2003, and she became the national indoor champion in the women's pentathlon in 2004.