THERE APPEARS TO BE a healthy and interesting rivalry developing between Texas A&M’s Winny Bii and Oklahoma’s Agur Dwol in the triple jump. Coming into Eugene, the two juniors had met three times in championship meets this year and Dwol had a 2–1 edge.
They were assigned to the same flight, and Dwol opened at 45-2¼ (13.77), jumping in the fourth slot. Two jumpers later, Bii was prepared and she responded with 45-9¾ (13.96). She was in the lead, but couldn’t relax.
After all, Dwol had edged her by a centimeter at the SEC, 46-0 (14.02)–45-11¾ (14.01). And lurking over in the other flight was Sweden’s Emilia Sjöstrand, a 4-time All-American for San José State who has an indoor PR of 46-2¾ (14.09).
The Swede opened at 45-6¼ (13.87), a season-best mark and she skipped past Dwol by 4 inches into 2nd. Although Sjöstrand improved by a centimeter on her final attempt, that was it.
Every jumper in the eventual top 8 secured her place in the first two rounds.
Bii transferred this year to A&M from Oklahoma State, where she had a ’24 best of 45-¼ (13.73).
“The coaches at A&M helped my technique by getting me on a bicycle a lot,” Bii said, “That helped my first phase. So my first two phases were good today. But No. 3 wasn’t as good as normal because my back was hurting.”
The only other 14-meter jumper in the field was Clemson senior Shantae Foreman, also with a 45-11¼ (14.01) PR. She opened at 45-¼ (13.72) and tailed off from there but held onto 4th.
WOMEN’S TRIPLE JUMP RESULTS
FINAL (June 14; winds ranged from +2.7 to –0.5)
1. *Winny Bii’ (TxAM-Ken) 45-9¾ (13.96)
(45-9¾, 44-7w, 42-7, 44-10¼, 44-4¼, 45-½) (13.96, 13.59w, 12.98, 13.67, 13.52, 13.73);
2. Emilia Sjöstrand’ (SJSt-Swe) 45-6½ (13.88)
(45-6¼, 45-½w, 45-2½, 44-1¼, 45-5, 45-6½) (13.87, 13.73w, 13.78, 13.44, 13.84, 13.88);
3. *Agur Dwol (Ok) 45-2¼ (13.77)
(45-2¼, 44-4¼, f, 44-9¾, f, f) (13.77, 13.52, f, 13.66, f, f);
4. *Shantae Foreman’ (Clem-Jam) 45-¼ (13.72)
(45-¼, 44-11¾, 42-11¾, 43-3, 42-2, 42-1½) (13.72, 13.71, 13.10, 13.18, 12.85, 12.84);
5. Victoria Gorlova’ (TxT-Rus) 44-4¾ (13.53)
(43-9¾w, 44-4¾, 43-10½, 43-9¾, 43-9¾, 43-11¼w) (13.35w, 13.53, 13.37, 13.35, 13.35, 13.39w);
6. ***Skylynn Townsend (Ga) 44-4¼ (13.52) PR
(43-7¼, 44-4¼, 43-1, 43-3¾, 42-11, 41-¼) (13.29, 13.52, 13.13, 13.20, 13.08, 12.50);
7. Ashley Moore (Ok) 43-7¾ (13.30)
(43-7¾, 43-1, 43-4¼, f, f, 42-8¾) (13.30, 13.13, 13.21, f, f, 13.02);
8. Ryann Porter (Or) 43-4½ (13.22)
(43-4½, 42-5¼, 43-3¼, 40-9½, 43-1½w, f) (13.22, 12.93, 13.19, 12.43, 13.14w, f);
9. ***Asia Phillips’ (Fl-Can) 43-1 (13.13); 10. **Tamiah Washington (TxT) 42-10¼ (13.06); 11. Christina Warren (Mia) 42-9 (13.03); 12. Shalom Olotu (KsSt) 42-8¾ (13.02); 13. *Sharvari Parulekar’ (Louis-Ind) 42-8¼w (13.01); 14. Simone Johnson (SJSt) 42-8¼ (13.01); 15. *Kayla Pinkard (FlSt) 42-7 (12.98) PR; 16. Rachela Pace’ (UTSA-Mlt) 42-4¾ (12.92); 17. ***Cameran Gist (SC) 42-4w (12.90); 18. **Daniela Wamokpego’ (Ia-Fra) 41-8½w (12.71); 19. *Machaeda Linton’ (LSU-Jam) 41-7 (12.67); 20. Jada Joseph (Brown) 41-3¼ (12.58); 21. *Georgina Scoot’ (Prin-GB) 41-2½ (12.56); 22. **Katharina Graman’ (SJSt-Swe) 41-1w (12.52); 23. *Olivia Dowd (NCAT) 40-10½ (12.46); 24. *Sophie Galloway (Ky) 40-9 (12.42).
