ON the hunt for a ticket to her first Olympic Games, 23-year-old Kimberly Williams leaped a season-best 14.19 metres to take third place in the triple jump at the Meeting International de la Grande on Tuesday in Guadeloupe.

Williams, the reigning Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) champion, is seeking to attain the Olympic ‘A’ standard of 14.30m.

Colombian Caterina Ibargüen, last year’s World Championship bronze medallist, won the event with 14.73m, with Cuban Yargelis Savigne, the 2009 world champion in Berlin, second with a jump of 14.24m.

Another Jamaican Trecia Smith, the 2005 world champion, finished fifth with a season-best 13.89 metres.

Meanwhile, Williams will enter this weekend’s Jamaica International Invitational (JII) meet as the seventh best triple jump in the world this year and is the defending champion.

She won her pet event at last year’s meet with a personal best 14.25m, in the face of a -1.2m/s wind.

Williams is now averaging 14.191m a jump and having improved her personal best in the 100 metres to 11.76 seconds, is expected to achieve the Olympic ‘A’ standard this weekend.

The most comprehensive athletics database, All-Athletics.com, ranks Williams as the current 18th best triple jumper in the world.

Reigning world champion, Olha Saladukha of Ukraine; world championship silver medallist Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan; and Cuban Savigne are ranked as the top three.

Jamaica has been represented by only three women in the triple jump at the Olympic Games. Suzette Lee was the first, competing in the 1996 Games; Keisha Spencer participated in the 2004 Games and Trecia Smith in 2004 and 2008.

The athletics competitions of the XXX Olympiad will take place in London, United Kingdom from August 3-12.