The Women's triple jump competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

[1] Before the competition, 2015 World Champion Caterine Ibargüen of Colombia had the longest jump of the season with 15.04 m. Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova entered as the defending Olympic champion from 2012 and had been the first athlete to beat Ibargüen that year, ending her rival's 34-meet-long winning streak.

Twenty-year-old Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas was the only other athlete over fifteen metres that season and had won the 2016 World Indoor Championships.

All the main contenders progressed with Germany's Kristin Gierisch and Finn Kristiina Mäkelä posting the next best marks.

[4][5] In the final, on the third jump of the competition, Keturah Orji took the lead with an American record 14.71 m (48 ft 3 in).