- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Dwight Phillips
Dwight Phillips (born: October 1, 1977 in Decatur, Georgia, USA) is an athlete who specializes in the long jump. Dwight was a promising sprinter in his early days but concentrated on the triple jump while at University of Kentucky before switching to the long jump after moving to Arizona State University in 2000. He hit the big time in 2003 when he won both the IAAF indoor and outdoor World Championships.
- 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, …
- Darvis Patton
Darvis Patton (born: December 4, 1977 in Dallas, Texas) is an American sprint athlete. A very versatile athlete, Patton competed at both the long jump and triple jump in his High School and College days but now concentrates his time around the 200 metres event.
- Dean Macey
Dean Macey (born: December 12, 1977 in Rochford, Essex) is an English decathlete. Dean started out in athletics as a triple jumper but graduated up through the octathlon to settle on the decathlon. He was also on the books of Arsenal F.C. as a youngster but gave up football to train for the World Junior Championships in 1995. Macey's major breakthrough was when he won silver medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics in the Olympic Stadium, Seville, …
- 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).
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born March 3, 1962) is a retired American athlete, ranked amongst the all-time greatest heptathletes. She won three gold, one silver and two bronze Olympic medals. Named after Jackie Kennedy, she currently lives in East St. Louis, Illinois. Joyner-Kersee was the first woman to score over 7,000 points in a heptathlon event (during the 1986 Goodwill Games).
- Miguel Pate
Miguel Pate (born June 13, 1979 in St. Francisville, Louisiana) is an American track and field athlete. His speciality is the long jump, although during his high school and collegiate career he has also done the triple jump, high jump, 100 m, 200 m, 4x100 m relay, and 4x400 m. Miguel Pate attended West Feliciana High School in Louisiana from 1994 to 1997.
- Chris Tomlinson
Christopher Tomlinson (born: September 15, 1981 in Middlesbrough, England) is an athlete who specialises in the long jump. Chris began competing for Middlesbrough AC (formerly Mandale Harriers and Middlesbrough and Cleveland AC) at the age of 10, mostly over 100m and 200m. He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School and to this day holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump. However in his early teens Chris decided to concentrate on long jump.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Florence Griffith-Joyner
Florence Griffith-Joyner (born Delorez Florence Griffith), also known as Flo-Jo (December 21, 1959 - September 21, 1998) was an American track and field athlete. She is best known for her media flamboyance and setting World Records in the 100 m and 200 m, which still stand as of 2007. Her career was dogged by allegations of drug use, which was speculated to have caused her premature death.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Allen Simms
Allen Simms (born 26 July 1982) is a triple jumper who competes for Puerto Rico after changing allegiance from the United States in May 2005. He finished fourth at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo. His personal best jump is 17.17 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Los Angeles. In addition he has 8.02 metres in the long jump.
- Tim Lobinger
Tim Lobinger (born September 3, 1972 in Rheinbach, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German track and field athlete. His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters. His best medals so far have been silver at the 1998 European Athletics Championships and the 2006 European Athletics Championships.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Randy Lewis
Randy Lewis (born 14 October 1980) is a Grenadian athlete competing in the triple jump. His personal best jump is 17.34 metres, achieved in May 2004 in St. George's. This is the current Grenadian record.
- Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, <small>OIH</small>, (born November 20 1979) is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Naide Gomes started competing under the flag of her birth-country São Tomé and Príncipe and represented it at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, though she has lived in Portugal since she was 11 eleven years-old.
- Suzette Lee
Suzette Lee (born 6 March 1975) is a Jamaican triple jumper. Her personal best jump is 14.16 metres, achieved in April 2005 in Baton Rouge. She has a better indoor mark with 14.25 metres, achieved in March 1997 in Indianapolis. In July 2005 Lee was found guilty of salbutamol use. She received a public warning rather than a lenghty ban. Nonetheless, she has not competed internationally since 2005.
- Erick Walder
Erick Walder (born 5 November 1971 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American long jumper. His personal best was 8.74 metres, achieved in April 1994 in El Paso. Walder competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas where he won 10 NCAA long jump and triple jump titles, indoor and outdoor. He still holds the collegiate outdoor long jump record with a leap of 28 feet 8.25 inches (8.74 metres). In 2004, Walder was found guilty of amphetamine and methamphetamine doping.
- Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore, son of international coach Aston Moore (former athlete and coach to Ashia Hansen) began his career his by gaining the English School’s title in 1999 and Gold in the same event in 2000. In 2000 Jonathan also won the U17 Championships in both events and the School’s International and Commonwealth Youth Games in the Triple Jump. In 2001 He won the English Schools’ title and AAA U20 Gold in Long Jump, …
- 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, …
- Elvan Abeylegesse
Elvan Abeylegesse (also formerly: Hewan Abeye (Amharic) and Elvan Can (Turkish)) (born September 11, 1982) is an Ethiopian-born Turkish woman middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country. She was once ranked 7th in the world, and held the record for 5000m, at 14:24.68. She was born Hewan Abeye on September 11, 1982 in Addis Ababa, …
- 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.
- Galina Chistyakova
Galina Dmitriyevna Chistyakova (born July 26, 1962 in Izmail, Ukrainian SSR) is a retired athlete who represented the USSR. She trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. Competing in long jump, Galina Chistyakova won the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the European Championships one year later. In 1988 she managed to win an Olympic bronze medal in Seoul as well as jumping 7.52 metres, the current world record for women.
- Mike Conley Jr.
Michael Alex Conley, Jr. (born October 11, 1987 in Fayetteville, Arkansas) is a basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA. Conley is the son of Olympic gold and silver medalist triple jumper Mike Conley, Sr. and the nephew of former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Steve Conley. Conley attended Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he played with friend and former Ohio State teammate Greg Oden.