Inessa Kravets

Inessa Kravets is a Ukrainian former track-and-field athlete who set the women’s triple jump world record in 1995. She also competed in the long jump.

1995 World Championships in Athletics: The fifth World Championships in Athletics, held in Gothenburg, Sweden. Kravets won the triple jump here and set the world record.
Triple jump: A track-and-field event in which athletes hop, step, and jump into a sand pit. Kravets’s world record is measured in this event.
Ukrainian athletics: The organization and practice of track and field in Ukraine. Kravets became one of the country’s most prominent athletes after independence.
World record: The best performance officially recognized in a discipline under its governing rules. Kravets’s mark became the benchmark for women’s triple jump.
Women’s triple jump world record progression: The sequence of officially recognized world records in the women’s triple jump. It places Kravets’s 1995 mark in the event’s record history.
Hop, step and jump: The three sequential phases that make up a triple-jump attempt. Athletes must preserve speed while completing all three phases.
Soviet athletics: The state-organized system of track and field in the Soviet Union. Her early career began before Ukraine became independent in 1991.
Olympic athletics: Track-and-field competitions contested at the Summer Olympic Games. Her 1996 gold made her the Olympic champion in the women’s triple jump.
1996 Summer Olympics: The Summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia. Kravets won the women’s triple jump at these Games.
Long jump: A track-and-field event in which athletes sprint and leap into a sand pit. Kravets also competed in this event, which shares the runway and landing pit.

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