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Olga Rypakova
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Key facts
- Full name
- Ольга Сергеевна Рыпакова
- Nationality
- Kazakhstani
- Born
- ( 1984-11-30 ) 30 November 1984 (age 41) , Oskemen , East Kazakhstan Region , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Weight
- 62 kg (137 lb)
- Country
- Kazakhstan
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- Heptathlon , triple jump , long jump
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Oskemen
- Award
- Order of Parasat
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Kazakhstan
- Mass
- 62
- Image
- Olga Rypakova Memorial Van Damme 2010.jpg
- Height
- 183
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- date of birth
- 1984-11-30
- Commons category
- Olga Rypakova
- sports discipline competed in
- long jump
- name in native language
- Ольга Рыпакова
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Olga Sergeyevna Rypakova (née Alekseyeva; Russian: Ольга Сергеевна Рыпакова); 30 November 1984) is a former Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in the combined events at Asian competitions – she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games the following year.
She competed in both jumping events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and finished fourth in the triple jump with an Asian record of 15.11 metres. Rypakova has represented Kazakhstan at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships in Athletics. She reached the world podium for the first time at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where she took gold with an Asian indoor record jump of 15.14 m. She won the gold medal in triple jump at the 2012 London Olympics.
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