- Phillips Idowu
Phillips Idowu (born on December 30, 1978 in Hackney, London) is an English triple jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, setting a new personal best of 17.68 during the contest but was beaten by world record holder Jonathan Edwards. Later that year he placed 5th in the European Championships. Four years later, he once again finished 5th place at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics.
- Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan David Edwards, CBE, (born May 10, 1966 in London, England) is a former British triple jumper and widely regarded as the finest triple jumper of all time. He is an Olympic champion and has held the world record in the event since 1995. He lives with his wife Alison in Gosforth, Tyneside and also has a flat in London.
- Christian Olsson
Christian Olsson (born January 25, 1980 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is an athlete competing in high jump and triple jump. He has won 1 Olympic gold medal, 3 gold and 1 silver medal in the world championships and 2 gold medals in the European championships. He also won the overall Golden League-jackpot in 2004 where he cashed in 500.000 dollars (after splitting the million dollar pot with Tonique Williams-Darling).
- Ashia Hansen
Ashia Hansen (born 5 December 1971 in Evansville, Indiana, USA) is an athlete who is considered Britain's greatest-ever female triple jumper. Although born in the USA, Hansen was adopted at the age of 3 months by a Ghanaian father and a British mother and grew up in the UK after spending a few years in Ghana. Hansen is a member of the Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club in Birmingham, along with other successful British athletes such as Denise Lewis, Kelly Sotherton, …
- Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas (born December 4, 1982 in Oxford) is a British athlete. He won the silver medal in triple jump at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg with a jump of 17.21 metres. His personal best is 17.64 m (2005).
- Kenta Bell
Kenta Bell (born March 16, 1977) is an American track and field athlete who competes mainly in the triple jump. He won this event at the 2001 Universiade and the 2003 national championship. Bell has also finished third in two IAAF World Athletics Finals. He has also competed at the larger competitions such as the 2003 World Championships, the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2005 World Championships where he finished 6th, 9th and 7th respectively.
- Tereza Marinova
Tereza Marinova (born September 5, 1977 in Pleven) is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump. In her younger days she became both European and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best jump of 15.20 metres. In long jump her personal best is 6.46m. She did not compete internationally after the 2004 World Indoor Championships until 2006.
- Tatyana Lebedeva
Tatyana Lebedeva (born July 21, 1976 in Volgograd) is a Russian athlete who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines. In the finals of the 2004 World Indoor Championships, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a mark of 15.36 metres. In 2004 for the second Summer Olympic Games in a row, …
- Walter Davis
Walter Davis (born July 2, 1979 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an African American athlete competing in the triple jump and occasionally in the long jump. Davis won the 2005 World Indoor & Outdoor Championships in that event. However, his greatest claim to fame may have occurred in the 2004 Olympic Trials, where in the later rounds of the final he put in an extraordinary jump, during the landing phase of which he lost control, …
- Aarik Wilson
Aarik Wilson (born October 25, 1982 in Fallon, Nevada) is an American triple jumper. US National Indoor Triple Jump Champion 2007(17.28 Meters), 3rd National Indoor Championships in Long Jump 2007(8.00 Meters). He also finished fifth at the 2003 Pan American Games and sixth at the 2006 World Athletics Final. He competed at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships without reaching the final round.
- Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump. She is 1.65m tall and weighs 63 kg. Her international breakthrough came in 2005, when she, competing in both the triple and long jump events at the 2005 World Championships, won a silver medal and finished fourth. She continued her form throughout the year to place third at the World Athletics Final with 14.81.
- Trecia Smith
Trecia-Kaye Smith (born November 5, 1975) is a Jamaican athlete competing mainly in triple jump. In college, she competed for the University of Pittsburgh from 1996-1999 and was a seven-time NCAA national champion (two outdoor and three indoor long jump titles and one outdoor and one indoor triple jump title), 15-time All-American, a 14-time Big East Conference champion, and a 15-time Eastern College Athletic Conference champion.
- Kenny Harrison
Kerry ("Kenny") Harrison (born February 13, 1965 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) is a former track and field athlete competing in triple jump. The 1991 world champion, his chances of competing in the 1992 Olympics were ruined by injury, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with a personal best and national record of 18.09.
- Tiombe Hurd
Tiombe Hurd (born 17 August 1973) is an American triple jumper. She won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships. After winning the 2004 US Olympic trials, she represented her country at the 2004 Olympic Games without reaching the final. Her personal best jump is 14.45 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Sacramento. This is the current American record.
- Willie Banks
William Augustus ("Willie") Banks III (b. March 11, 1956 at Travis Air Force Base, California) is an American athlete. He grew up in San Diego County and went to Oceanside High School. Banks is an Eagle Scout. He was a track & field athlete competing in the triple jump. On June 16, 1985 he set a world record of 58 feet 11.5 inches at the national championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He earned his B.A. and J.D. from UCLA, but was unable to pass the bar exam.
- Hrysopiyi Devetzi
Hrysopiyi Devetzi (born January 2, 1976) is a Greek athlete competing in the triple jump and also long jump. She won the triple jump silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics with a personal best of 15.32 metres. She won another silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Marian Oprea
Marian Oprea is a Romanian athlete, competing in triple jump, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. His personal best is 17.81 meters. He won the bronze medal in the triple jump at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki and also at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
- Leevan Sands
Leevan Sands (born August 16, 1981 in Nassau) is a Bahamian triple jumper. His personal best jump is 17.50 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Odessa. This is the current Bahamian record. He was suspended from March 2006 to September 2006 for testing positive on the prohibited substance levmethamfetamine.
- Inessa Kravets
The Ukrainian triple jumper Inessa Kravets, née Shulyak jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards. She has also competed at a high level in the Long jump.
- Olga Vasdeki
Olga Vasdeki (born September 26, 1973 in Volos) is a Greek triple jumper. She is the younger sister of long jumper Spiridon Vasdekis.
- Viktor Saneyev
Viktor Danilovich Saneyev (born October 3, 1945, Sukhumi, Georgian SSR) is a retired Russian triple jumper, who competed internationally for the USSR and won four Olympic medals; three golds (1968, 1972 and 1976) and one silver (1980). He dominated the event during the late 1960s and 1970s. Saneyev trained in Sukhumi and later in Tbilisi at Dynamo. Saneyev began athletics in 1956, training in the Gantiadi boarding school, his first coach was Akop Kerselyan.
- Yoandri Betanzos
Yoandri Betanzos is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump. His personal best jump is 17.63 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Havana. This result places him fourth on the all-time Cuban performers list, behind Yoelbi Quesada, Lázaro Betancourt and Aliecer Urrutia.
- Allan Wells
Allan Wipper Wells (born May 3, 1952) is a former Scottish athlete who became Olympic Champion in the 100 m at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
- Andrew Murphy
Andrew Murphy (born 10 December 1969) is an Australian triple jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 2001 World Indoor Championships, where he achieved an Oceanian indoor record of 17.20 metres. His personal best was 17.32 metres, achieved at the 1999 World Championships in Seville. This ranks him second among Australian triple jumpers, only behind Ken Lorraway. His coach is Keith Connor. He has also been seeing Kelly Ott since late 2006.
- Al Joyner
Alfredrick "Al" Alphonzo Joyner, born January 19, 1960 in East St. Louis, Illinois, United States, is an Olympic gold medalist in the triple jump. Joyner was married to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner, a multiple Olympic medal-winning sprinter. They had one daughter Mary Ruth. His sister Jackie Joyner-Kersee is also an Olympic gold medalist. Joyner married for a second time on June 28, 2003 to Alisha Biehn. The couple has a daughter, Skylar Rose and a son, …
- Aliecer Urrutia
Aliecer Urrutia (born September 22, 1974) is a former triple jumper from Cuba. Having set a personal best of 17.70 in 1996, he won a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships. He shares the men's world indoor record with Christian Olsson of Sweden with a mark of 17.83 metres. He retired after the 2002 season.
- Dimitrios Tsiamis
Dimitrios Tsiamis (born 12 January 1982) is a Greek triple jumper. He finished eighth at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Moscow. His personal best jump is 17.55 metres, achieved in June 2006 in Thessaloniki. This is the current Greek record.
- Paraskevi Tsiamita
Paraskevi Tsiamita (born March 10, 1972) is a former athlete from Greece who competed in long jump and triple jump. In 1998 she improved her personal best in triple jump by approximately one metre, and became world champion in 1999 with a personal best jump of 15.07 metres. This was the national record until 2004, when Hrysopiyi Devetzi jumped 15.32 m at the Olympic Games. Her personal best in long jump is 6.93 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Patra.
- James Connolly
James Brendan Bennet Connolly (October 28, 1868 - January 20, 1957) was an American athlete and author. In 1896, he became the first modern Olympic champion.
- Keith Connor
Keith Connor (born 16 September,1957) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the Triple jump. He competed for Great Britain in the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the Triple jump where he won the Bronze medal.
- Myer Prinstein
Myer (or Meyer) Prinstein (December 22, 1878 - March 10, 1925) was an American athlete who held the world record for the long jump and won gold medals in three Olympic Games.
- Hristos Meletoglou
Hristos Meletoglou (born 2 January 1972) is a Greek triple jumper. He finished seventh at the 1997 World Championships in Athens and the 2003 World Championships in Paris, and sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. His personal best jump is 17.19 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Bremen. This ranks him fourth among Greek triple jumpers, only behind Dimitrios Tsiamis, Konstadinos Zalaggitis and Stamatios Lenis.
- Vilho Tuulos
Vilho Immanuel ("Ville") Tuulos was a Finnish triple jumper and long jumper, who was born in Tampere. He won an Olympic gold medal in triple jump in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. The 14.50 meter jumps he took during qualifying were counted during the main event and were enough for the win. Tuulos also won bronze in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. In long jump, his best result was a fourth place in the 1924 Olympics.
- Mikio Oda
Mikio Oda (b. March 30, 1905 in Hiroshima - d. December 2, 1998) was a Japanese athlete. He was the first Asian Olympic champion in an individual event. Oda's main event was triple jump, but he also competed in long jump and high jump, and participated in all three events in the 1924, 1928 and 1932 Summer Olympics. His Olympic gold medal win came in 1928, in Amsterdam, where he won the triple jump event with a result of 15.21 meters.
- Anna Pyatykh
Anna Viktorovna Pyatykh (born April 4, 1981 in Moscow) is a successful Russian triple jumper. She has won the SPAR European Cup four consecutive times, won a bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki and has also competed at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2006 she finished second at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships behind countrywoman Tatyana Lebedeva.
- Charles Friedek
Charles Michael Friedek is a German triple jumper who became world champion in 1999 with a jump of 17.59 metres. He had already won the World Indoor Championships the same year, with an indoor PB of 17.18 metres. In 2002, he won a silver medal at the European Championships with 17,33 metres. At the European Indoor Championships, he won a silver medal in 1998 and gold in 2000.
- Mike Conley Sr.
Michael Alex Conley, Sr. (born October 5 1962, in Chicago, Illinois) is a former American track & field athlete who competed primarily in the triple jump. He is one of only four men in the history of the event to jump over 18 m. He is also a former Olympic and world champion in the event. Mike competed collegiately at the University of Arkansas where he won 16 NCAA long jump and triple jump titles.
- Sheila Hudson
Sheila Hudson (born 30 June 1967 in Kitzengen, Germany) is a retired American triple jumper. She won the silver medal at the 1994 IAAF World Cup, finished eighth at the 1995 World Indoor Championships, eleventh at the 1996 Olympic Games and fifth at the 1998 IAAF World Cup. Hudson set two unofficial world records in 1987. Her personal best jump is 14.41 metres, achieved in July 1996 in Stockholm. The American record currently belongs to Tiombe Hurd with 14.45 metres.
- Zou Zhenxian
Zou Zhenxian (born 10 November 1955) is a retired Chinese triple jumper, best known for finishing fourth at the 1984 Summer Olympics. His personal best jump is 17.34 metres, achieved in September 1981 in Rome. This is the current Chinese record.
- Li Yanxi
Li Yanxi (born 26 June 1984) is a Chinese triple jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships, finished fourth at the 2006 IAAF World Cup and won the 2006 Asian Games. His personal best jump is 17.15 metres, achieved in June 2005 in Eugene.