Jordan Díaz poses this Sunday in La Nucia with his new Spanish record in triple jump.rfea
Jordan Díaz broke the Spanish triple jump record for the second time in the last week, after signing a spectacular 17.76 meters this Sunday in the final of the Joma Athletics League that takes place in the Alicante town of La Nucía.
Díaz, only 21 years old, surpassed the previous national record by 46 centimeters that he himself established on June 4, in Andújar (Jaén), with a jump of 17.30 meters.
The new record placed the jumper of Cuban origin in first place in the world ranking of the year after improving by 12 centimeters the previous best mark of the course, held by Cuban Andy Díaz (17.64 meters).
The best mark in history is held by Jonathan Edwards (18.29).
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Díaz (Havana, 21 years old), who at the age of 16 already jumped 17 meters, left in July 2021 the Cuban team that was preparing the Tokyo Games in Europe and stayed to live in Guadalajara, where he received Spanish nationality.
“The sports system is very complicated there [in Cuba].
They almost force value athletes to stampede.
I saw that my results were worthless.
There is a time when the athlete needs a stimulus, which was something that a person like me, with the level I have, did not receive.
And I felt down.
I made the decision [to stay in Spain] and I knew it was the best.
And when my parents gave me their blessing, they told me: 'you have to go, you have to go if you want to be great,' he recounted in an interview in EL PAÍS published ten days ago.
And in Guadalajara his coach is Iván Pedroso.
“He is a super athlete and a super person.
It was my plan that I already had drawn up, to come and train with him.
We have a super team.
I thank Iván for having welcomed me here as his athlete”, pointed out Díaz, who confesses that his training routine has totally changed.
“Here the least I do is jumps.
In Cuba, force is always used.
Here I do more running, which is the deficit I had.
What is treating me are the deficits I had in Cuba.
There he did not run as such.
My speed has been improving, my running technique, so that the jump goes well”, pointed out the athlete.
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