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Mbango Etone defends triple jump title

Cameroon's Francoise Mbango Etone successfully defended her Olympic gold medal in triple jump with a jump of 15.39 giving her victory at the Bird's Nest.

Russian Tatyana Lebedeva won the silver medal while Greece's Hrysopiyi Devetzi, silver medallist in Athens, had to settle for bronze.

Mbango Etone became Cameroon's first individual Olympic gold medallist when she won in Athens in 2004.

The African produced her winning jump on her second attempt.

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