Mark. Women’s triple jump became a part of every major world championship competition during the 1990s and was added to the Olympics in 1996. Standing triple-jump: My great-uncles father-in-law Patrick Keohan won this event at Madison … When Great Britain’s Jonathan Edwards set the current world record of 18.29m to win at the 1995 IAAF World Championships, he jumped a distance in excess of the width of a football penalty box. That inaugural record was the 15.52 m performance by Dan Ahearn in 1911. Gold standard. Edwards set a world record with both of his first two efforts in the final of the triple jump, recording 18.16 m before going out even further in the next round.

Soviet jumper Viktor Saneyev from Georgia won three consecutive Olympic titles from 1968 to … Jonathan Edwards - Triple Jump World Record - 1995 - YouTube As of June 21, 2009, 27 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event. The longest triple jump by a male athlete is 18.29 m (60 ft 0.78 in), by Jonathan Edwards (UK) at the IAAF World Championships at the Ullevi stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden, on 7 August 1995. With her final attempt of the evening, Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas bounded out to a world indoor triple jump record of 15.43m* at the Meeting Villa de Madrid, the final World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting of the season, on Friday (21). Armand Duplantis (AFP Photo) QUAI ANTOINE [Monaco]: Armand Duplantis ' world pole vault record of 6.17m and Yulimar Rojas ' world indoor triple jump record of 15.43m have been ratified by the World Athletics on Monday. Duplantis was in sensational form throughout the indoor season and opened his 2020 campaign with a 6.00m vault in Dusseldorf. The first world record in the men's triple jump was recognised by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912. The IAAF finally recognized a women’s triple jumping world record in 1990, when Li jumped 14.54/47-8½ in a meet in Sapporo, Japan.