| Final 19:45 | Distance | wind | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | | 1. Paraskevi Tsiamita |  GRE | 14.88m | +0.2 | 14.88 | X | 14.59 | X | 14.35 | X | | 2. Yamile Aldama |  CUB | 14.61m | -0.4 | 14.34 | 14.61 | 12.87 | 14.32 | 14.21 | 12.73 | | 3. Olga-Anastasia Vasdeki | GRE | 14.61m | +0.2 | X | X | 14.20 | 14.33 | 14.61 | X | | 4. Tatyana Lebedeva |  RUS | 14.55m | +0.7 | 14.01 | 14.40 | 14.55 | 14.49 | X | 14.47 | | 5. Iva Prandzheva |  BUL | 14.54m | 0.0 | X | 14.54 | 14.32 | 14.18 | X | 14.36 | | 6. Sarka Kasparkova |  CZE | 14.54m | +1.2 | 14.54 | 14.33 | 14.23 | 14.34 | 14.08 | 14.25 | | 7. Yelena Govorova |  UKR | 14.47m | -0.3 | X | 14.30 | 14.47 | 13.94 | X | 14.03 | | 8. Cristina Nicolau |  ROM | 14.38m | -0.3 | 14.38 | 12.66 | 13.96 | 13.51 | X | 14.33 | | 9. Oksana Rogova | RUS | 14.16m | -0.1 | 14.07 | 14.16 | 14.10 | | | 10.Baya Rahouli |  ALG | 14.00m | +0.7 | 13.78 | 13.96 | 14.00 | | | 11.Adelina Gavrila |  ROU | 13.87m | -0.2 | 13.87 | 13.81 | 13.46 | | | 12.Ashia Hansen |  GBR | 13.39m | -0.4 | X | X | 13.39 | |
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| World Record: Inessa Kravets, Ukraine 29 15.50m WC Gottebotg, Sweden 10th August 1995 |
Few athletes have risen quite so fast from obscurity to world champion as Tsiamita. In 1998 she improved drastically from a best of 13.27 to 14.23, placing ninth in the European Championships. Prior to Seville in 1999 she progressed to 14.94.
In the qualifying round the 27 year-old Greek, powerful but technically ragged, jumped fully 60cm more than anyone else with a national record of 15.07, and she confirmed her supremacy in the final. She opened with 14.88 and that was that. Nobody else could jump further than 14.61. Lebedyeva, who had shared top place on the world year list beforehand, was in tears afterwards as she placed fourth behind Aldama and Vasdhéki, the Cuban winning silver ahead of the other Greek on countback. Also distraught was World Indoor Champion Hansen, who followed two fouls with a despairing effort from a vast distance behind the board. An even sadder sight was world record holder Kravets, 22nd out of 25 in the qualifying with a dismal 13.49.
| Group A | Distance | wind | Rk. | 1. | 2. | 3. | | 1. Paraskevi Tsiamita | GRE | 15.07m | -0.6 | 1. | 15.07 | | | 2. Iva Prandzheva | BUL | 14.39m | -0.2 | 3. | 14.14 | 14.39 | | | 3. Oksana Rogova | RUS | 14.30m | 0.0 | 4. | 14.16 | 14.30 | | | 4. Yamile Aldama | CUB | 14.29m | -0.1 | 6. | 14.29 | | | 5. Adelina Gavrila | ROU | 14.20m | +0.5 | 12. | 14.02 | 14.20 | | | 6. Francoise Etone Mbango |  CMR | 14.12m | +0.1 | 13. | 14.10 | 13.92 | 14.12 | | 7. Eva Dolezalova | CZE | 14.11m | -0.1 | 14. | 13.87 | X | 14.11 | | 8. Ruiping Ren |  CHN | 13.90m | +0.1 | 17. | 13.25 | 13.90 | 13.87 | | 9. Natalya Klimovets-Safronova |  BLR | 13.89m | -0.5 | 18. | 13.57 | 13.89 | 13.71 | | 10.Stacey Bowers |  USA | 13.58m | -0.3 | 21. | 13.58 | 12.98 | 13.57 | | 11.Inessa Kravets | UKR | 13.49m | -0.3 | 22. | 12.91 | X | 13.49 | | 12.Anja Valant |  SLO | 13.06m | -0.3 | 24. | X | 13.06 | X | | -. Suzette Lee |  JAM | DNS | |
| Group B | Distance | wind | Rk. | 1. | 2. | 3. | | 1. Cristina Nicolau | ROU | 14.47m | +0.7 | 2. | 14.47 | | | 2. Baya Rahouli | ALG | 14.30m | -0.4 | 5. | X | 14.30 | | | 3. Ashia Hansen | GBR | 14.28m | +1.0 | 7. | 14.28 | | | 4. Olga-Anastasia Vasdeki | GRE | 14.27m | 0.0 | 8. | 13.88 | 13.21 | 14.27 | | 5. Tatyana Lebedeva | RUS | 14.26m | -0.2 | 9. | 14.26 | | | 6. Sarka Kasparkova | CZE | 14.22m | -0.2 | 10. | 14.10 | X | 14.22 | | 7. Yelena Govorova | UKR | 14.21m | 0.0 | 11. | 14.21 | | | 8. Chunqing Miao | CHN | 13.92m | -0.5 | 15. | X | 13.92 | 13.53 | | 9. Kene Ndoye |  SEN | 13.90m | +1.3 | 16. | 13.66 | X | 13.90 | | 10.Viktoriya Brigadnaya |  TKM | 13.84m | 0.0 | 19. | X | 13.84 | 13.67 | | 11.Lingmei Wu | CHN | 13.83m | -0.2 | 20. | 13.56 | X | 13.83 | | 12.Heli Koivula |  FIN | 13.33m | -0.1 | 23. | 13.33 | X | 12.92 | | -. Concepcion Paredes |  ESP | NM | | | X | X | X |
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