| Landmarks |
First
over 14m: 14.04 Li Huirong CHN 1987
First official world record: 14.54 Li Huirong 1990
First over 15m: 15.09 Anna Biryukova RUS 1993
First over 15.50: 15.50 Inessa Kravets UKR 1995 (current world record)Most durable world record: 15.50 Inessa Kravets 1991 (5 years)
Most competitions over 14.95m: Inna Lasovskaya RUS & Iva Prandzheva BUL 5 (as at 7 Sep
2000) |
| Superlatives |
Most
Olympic titles: 1 Inessa Kravets 1996 (event held at the Olympic Games for the first time
in 1996)
Most World titles:
1 by Anna Biryukova 1993
1 Inessa Kravets 1995
1 Sarka Kasparkova CZE 1997
1 Paraskevi Tsiamita GRE 1999Youngest
Olympic/World champion: Anna Biryukova 1993 (25) Oldest: Inessa Kravets 1996 (29) |
| Three all time greats |
Yolanda Chen (RUS): The daughter of a world class triple jumper, she briefly held
the world record with 14.97m in 1993 and set a world indoor record of 15.03m in 1995 when
taking the world title. |
Anna Biryukova (RUS): Successor to Chen as world record holder when she cleared a
barrier-breaking 15.09m at the inaugural world championship at this event. She went on to
claim the European title in 1994. |
Inessa Kravets (UKR): Taking a leaf out of Jonathan Edwards' book at the 1995
World Championships in Göteborg, she not only won the title but obliterated the previous
world record by a massive 41cm margin with 15.50m. |
