Olga Rypakova

Olga Sergeyevna Rypakova, born Olga Alekseyeva on 30 November 1984, is a former Kazakhstani track and field athlete. She began as a heptathlete, then switched her focus to the long jump and began to compete in the triple jump after 2007. Her first successes came in combined events at Asian competitions, where she won the women's pentathlon at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games and the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics she competed in both jumping events and finished fourth in the triple jump with an Asian record of 15.11 metres. She took gold at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships with an Asian indoor record of 15.14 metres, and won the triple jump gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics. In February 2023 she announced the end of her professional sports career.