Tori Franklin
Tori Franklin is an American triple jumper. Tori Franklin is the first American woman to ever medal in the triple jump at a World Athletics Championships. Tori Franklin also notably competed in the women's triple jump at the 2019 and 2017 World Championships in Athletics, jumping a personal best in the preliminary round to place 9th & 13th respectively.
Author
Tori Franklin's first book You Anthem: Stories and Reflections of Celebration was published in Fall 2023.Competition
Tori Franklin competed at the 2014 North America Central American and Caribbean Under-23 Championships in Kamloops, British Columbia. There Franklin competed for the United States in the triple jump and posted a mark of 13.42 meters to finish first overall in the event.Franklin competed in the women's triple jump at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, jumping a then personal best in the preliminary round to rank #13 as the best non-qualifying athlete.
Franklin qualified for the final with her first round jump at the 2018 World Indoor Championships, to eventually place 8th.
Franklin broke the U.S. record in the triple jump with her performance at the International Meeting Region de Guadeloupe in Baie-Mahault, Guadeloupe, France on May 12, 2018 – surpassing Olympic 4th-place finisher Keturah Orji‘s.
In 2021, Franklin moved to Athens, Greece.
Franklin won a bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon; on her fifth jump she moved from 4th to 3rd place with her best jump of the season. Her medal was the United States' first ever World Championship Triple Jump medal.
Michigan State University
Tori Franklin broke the Michigan State University Spartans school record in the triple jump for the first time en route to a first-place finish at the University of Notre Dame Meyo Invitational to earn February 2014 Big Ten Conference athlete of the week for Women's Indoor Track and Field.Tori Franklin set Michigan State University Spartans school records in the triple jump indoor and outdoor.
| Year | Big Ten indoor | NCAA indoor | Big Ten Outdoor | NCAA Outdoor |
| 2015 | Triple Jump 1st | Triple Jump 12th | Triple Jump 5th | Triple Jump 5th |
| 2014 | Triple Jump 1st | Triple Jump 5th | Triple Jump 1st | Triple Jump 13th |
| 2013 | Triple Jump 6th | Triple Jump 1st | Triple Jump 4th | |
| 2012 | Triple Jump 2nd | Triple Jump 3rd | Triple Jump 3rd | Triple Jump 12th |