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#BudaQuest | Ricketts misses triple jump podium for first time in two championships

Published:Friday | August 25, 2023 | 2:50 PM
Shanieka Ricketts gets ready to jump into the sand during the triple jump final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Gladstone Taylor
Shanieka Ricketts gets ready to jump into the sand during the triple jump final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

In a World Athletics triple jump final that was the fiercest it has been in years since the rise of Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, twice silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts missed the podium despite a number of season-best leaps.

Rojas, for instance, had to wait until her penultimate jump to pull out a win with 15.08 metres, while Ricketts, who was in the bronze-medal position, was relegated to fourth with her best of 14.93.

Finishing ahead of Ricketts was the Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, 15 metres on the button, and Cuba’s Leyanis Pérez Hernández, 14.96.

Jamaica’s other competitor in the final, Kimberly Williams, 14.38, was seventh.

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