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Yulimar Rojas breaks the triple jump world record

2022-03-20T14:45:34.207Z


The Venezuelan, in her last jump, reaches 15.74 meters, improves on the 15.67 of the Tokyo Games and wins gold at the Indoor World Championships in Belgrade


“Yulimar Rojas world record, Yulimar Rojas world record”.

The one who repeats it over and over again is Yulimar herself, who in Belgrade, on the indoor track, during the World Cups, has just nailed the longest jump in the world: 15.74 meters.

No triple jumper had jumped so much.

Neither outdoors nor indoors.

The 26-year-old Venezuelan and Olympic champion in Tokyo succeeds in the last jump on a Sunday morning.

And he goes crazy because he knows he has jumped more than anyone else.

And when he sees the mark he cries out for the flag of his country.

He has just beaten his own record: the 15.67 meters that he had achieved in the Olympic stadium in Tokyo.

His progression seems to have no ceiling.

For her, not even 16 meters of it seem inaccessible.

She herself knows that her progression is infinite.

“Come on, come on”, she repeats in her concentration ritual asking for the help of the public, she wants the palms of the stands to accompany her footsteps in the Belgrade tartan.

"Come on, come on," she repeats to herself as she mentally reviews the movement of his feet and her ankles.

She jumps 15.19 meters on the first attempt, the second fails, 15.04 on the third, fails again.

In the fifth jump she reaches 15.36 meters and in the last one she flies up to 15.74.

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Ukrainian Maryna Bej-Romanchuk finished second with 14.74 meters and Jamaican Kimberly Williams finished third with a jump of 14.62 meters.

Ana Peleteiro finished eighth with 14.30 meters and assured that it had not been her best competition and that sometimes she “wins” and other times “she learns”.

The Galician has said about Yulimar Rojas' world record: “I train with her every day and I know she was up for the world record.

It is not something extraordinary for me, I know that she can jump more, I have seen her make bigger jumps in training.

I know how she strives, how she works, she ... ”.

Since August 14, 2016, when she only lost to the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen in the Olympic final of the Rio Games, Yulimar assumed the primacy of the triple jump under the wise direction of the Cuban Iván Pedroso in Guadalajara.

Indoor world champion that same year in Portland, she later retained the crown in Birmingham 2018, won two outdoor World Championships (London 2017 and Doha 2019), Olympic gold in Tokyo and broke the world record both outdoors (15 .67) and indoor (15.43).

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Source: elparis

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