Before the current record holder, Edwards, was Willie Banks.
Ukraine's Inessa Kravets is the current women's world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.50 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.
Outdoors:Great Britain's Jonathan Edwards is the current men's world record holder in the triple jump. His jump of 18.29 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.He also has a jump of 18.43 metres (meters) which was not in the record book because of a strong tailwind.Ukraine's Inessa Kravets is the current women's world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.50 metres (meters) in 1995 is the current world record.Indoors:France's Teddy Tamgho is the current men's indoor world record holder in the triple jump. His jump of 17.90 metres (meters) in 2010 is the current indoor world record.Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva is the current women's indoor world record holder in the triple jump. Her jump of 15.38 metres (meters) in 2004 is the current indoor world record.
Zafar Iqbal holds the record with 16.45m set in Karachi in 2007.
I'm not sure if this is the only event, but Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain is the world record holder in the triple jump with a jump of 18.29 meters.
The current world record holder is Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, with a jump of 18.29 metres (60' 1/4". which he set on the 7th August 1995 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Javier Sotomayor
it is Galina Chistyakova
15.50m
Bob Beamon
Javier Sotomayor with a jump of 2.45 meters.
Galina Chistyakova and her record is 7.52 meters
Jonathan Edwards, Triple Jump 18m 29 - over 60 feet