Triple jump at the Olympics

Triple jump at the Olympic Games
Willie Banks in the 1988 Olympic triple jump competition
Overview
Sport	Athletics
Gender	Men and women
Years held	Men: 1896 – 2012 Women: 1996 – 2012
Olympic record
Men	18.09 m Kenny Harrison (1996)
Women	15.39 m Françoise Mbango Etone (2008)
Reigning champion
Men	Christian Taylor (USA)
Women	Olga Rypakova (KAZ)

Standing triple jump at the Olympic Games
Ray Ewry at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Overview
Sport	Athletics
Gender	Men
Years held	Men: 1900 – 1904
Olympic record
Men	10.58 m Ray Ewry (1900)

The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first contested in 1996. It became the third Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump and long jump.

The Olympic records for the event are 18.09 m (59 ft 4 in) for men, set by Kenny Harrison in 1996, and 15.39 m (50 ft 5 ³⁄₄ in) for women, set by Françoise Mbango Etone in 2008. The men's triple jump world record was broken at the competition in 1924, 1932, 1936, 1956 and 1968. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, three men improved the record a total of five times at the high altitude of Mexico City. The women's world record has never been broken at the Olympics and the current mark of 15.50 m (50 ft 10 in), set in 1995, pre-dates the first Olympic event.

James Brendan Connolly was the first Olympic triple jump champion and, as it was the first event to conclude in 1896, he was also the first Olympic champion of the modern era.Inessa Kravets, the world record holder, became the first women's champion 100 years later. American Christian Taylor and Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova are the reigning Olympic champions from 2012.