Double blow for Yulimar Rojas.
Double world champion and silver in Rio, in 2016, the 25-year-old Venezuelan won Olympic gold in the triple jump this Sunday in Tokyo.
And this with the world record at stake: 15.67 m.
In fact, Rojas did not just break the record, she exploded it: 17 cm better than the mark of Isasa Kravets (15m50) in Gothenburg, in 1995.
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The Portuguese Patrícia Mamona (15.01 m) and the Spanish Ana Peleteiro (14.87 m) climb on the podium. Rojas thus signs the first world record of the Tokyo Olympics in athletics.