12 Facts About Olga Rypakova

Olga Rypakova won the gold medal in triple jump at the 2012 London Olympics.

In February 2023, Olga Rypakova announced the end of her professional sports career.

Olga Rypakova was more successful in the heptathlon: she finished fourth at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics and went on to take the silver at the following year's World Junior Championships behind the emerging Carolina Kluft.

Olga Rypakova persisted with combined events and started competing on the international circuit, finishing fifth with a season's best at the Multistars competition in 2003, and she became the national indoor champion in the women's pentathlon in 2004.

Olga Rypakova pushed herself beyond the normal seven events at the 2006 Asian Games by winning the heptathlon gold medal with 5955 points, and then participating in the individual long jump competition.

Olga Rypakova won the long jump bronze medal a day after topping the podium in the heptathlon competition.

Olga Rypakova intended to close the year with an appearance at the 2007 Asian Indoor Games but she withdrew from the competition.

Olga Rypakova's Olympics came to a close after a modest set of jumps in the qualifiers of the long jump competition left her out of the final.

Olga Rypakova became the long and triple jump national indoor champion at the beginning of 2010, and she opted to compete in the triple jump at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

Olga Rypakova completed a series of personal best jumps in the final, battling against the defending champion Yargelis Savigne for the gold medal.

Olga Rypakova's best of 4582 points in the indoor pentathlon is an Asian indoor record.

Olga Rypakova has a heptathlon best of 6113 points, set in Almaty in 2006.