Lyukman Adams
Lyukman Rasakovich Adams is a Russian triple jumper. Adams is of Nigerian and Russian descent
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Arpinder Singh
Arpinder Singh is an Indian triple jumper. He also claimed a bronze medal in the sport in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. He is supported by Anglian Medal Hunt Company, a company that supports young Indian athletes towards international competitive success, with an especial aim at the Olympics.
Renjith Maheshwary
Renjith Maheśwary is an Indian triple jumper. He finished fourth at the 2006 Asian Games and won the 2007 Asian Championships. He also competed at the 2007 World Championships, the 2011 World Championships and the 2013 World Championships but did not reach the final in any of those events. He represented India at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as in 2012 London Olympics. At the 2012 London Games as at the World Championships in Daegu, he committed three consecutive foul jumps at the qualifying stage, stopped his Olympic campaign. Renjith, had performed badly at the Beijing Olympics too, where he came up with a best of 15.77m. Later, he tested positive for a stimulant but was let off with a three-month suspension.
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko is a former Ukrainian and a current Israeli triple jumper and long jumper.
Tori Franklin
Tori Franklin is an American triple jumper. Tori Franklin competed in the women's triple jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, jumping a personal best 14.03 m in the preliminary round to rank #13 as the best non-qualifying athlete. Franklin competed in the World Indoor Championships, jumping 8th place 14.03 m in the final.
Mohinder Singh Gill
Mohinder Singh Gill is a retired Indian triple jumper who competed at the 1972 Munich Olympics. After placing second in a pre-Olympic meet in Munich, he competed while injured and failed to reach the final. Gill won one gold and one silver medal at the Asian Games.
Kimberly Williams (triple jumper)
Kimberly Williams is a Jamaican triple jumper. She is a multiple time Jamaican National Champion. She was successful as a youth athlete, winning the 2003 CARIFTA Games as a 14 year old. She was runner up at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships. Later, she jumped for Florida State University and was a four time NCAA Champion. By the time she graduated in 2012, she was "the most decorated women's track and field athlete in Florida State history." Since then she is the reigning Commonwealth Games champion. She was a finalist in the 2016 Olympics, ranking as high as 4th after two rounds of jumping, ultimately finishing seventh.
Zdzisław Hoffmann
Zdzisław Hoffmann is a retired triple jumper from Poland. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the inaugural 1983 World Championships, for which he was named Polish Sportspersonality of the Year at the end of the year.
Olu Olamigoke
Olumide "Olu" Olamigoke is a Nigerian-American triple jumper who won a silver medal at the 2015 African Games. He was born in the United States to Nigerian parents, who immigrated there in 1986, and hence holds a dual Nigerian-American citizenship. He has a degree in human movement studies from Indiana University.
Wendy Brown (heptathlete)
Wendy Renee Brown is a retired heptathlete and triple jumper from the United States. She competed in the heptathlon at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, finishing in 18th place behind teammate Jackie Joyner Kersee's still current world record. As the event was in transition to become an official event, she set the world record in the women's triple jump twice in the mid-1980s. Because this was before the event was declared official, neither of those records were officially ratified. Brown went to the University of Southern California where she won the 1986 NCAA Indoor Championship in the Triple Jump and later winning 1988 NCAA Championship in the Heptathlon. She is still the school record holder in the Triple Jump and Heptathlon, as well as being ranked second in Long Jump and High Jump, and fifth in the Javelin throw.
Neele Eckhardt
Neele Eckhardt is a German triple jumper. She competed in the women's triple jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics.
Zhu Yaming
Zhu Yaming is a Chinese male triple jumper. He is the 2017 Asian champion in the event.