Athletics
With 15.74 meters in her last attempt, the Venezuelan is proclaimed universal indoor champion for the third time in a row, an unprecedented milestone
Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas broke her own triple jump world record this Sunday, with 15.74 meters, to win the gold medal at the Indoor World Championships held in Belgrade. The Olympic champion surpassed her previous record of 15.67 meters set at the Tokyo Games last year, as well as her indoor record of 15.43 meters that she achieved in 2020 in Madrid. The Venezuelan jumper jumped over 15 meters four times during the Belgrade final, setting the world record on her sixth and final attempt. The Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk conquered the silver with 14.74 meters, her personal best, while the bronze went to the Jamaican Kimberly Williams, with 14.62.
Yulimar Rojas, 26, has been a dominant force in the women’s triple jump since the 2016 Rio Olympics, where she won silver, before claiming the world outdoor title a year later at London 2017 and repeating the feat in Doha 2019. This Sunday he won his third consecutive indoor world title, after the gold medals achieved in Portland in 2016 and Birmingham in 2018.
The South American athlete assured last year that she had set out to go beyond 16 meters. In his first jump in the Serbian capital, Yulimar Rojas jumped 15.19 meters, failed in the second, 15.04 in the third, again failed in the fourth and 15.36 in the fifth, until in the last he flew to 15.74, to sign an unprecedented milestone in athletics with an unprecedented record and three golds in a row in the Indoor World Championship.
The Spanish Ana Peleteiro, who trains in Guadalajara with Yulimar Rojas -her coach is the Cuban Iván Pedroso-, finished eighth, with 14.30 meters, in a bad day for the Galician jumper. “She Sometimes she wins and other times she learns,” commented Peleteiro after her farewell from Belgrade without the possibility of a medal.
duplantis, too
Subsequently, the Swedish Armand Duplantis also set a new world record in the pole vault, with a jump of 6.20. The podium was the same as that of the Tokyo Games, with Duplantis gold, Brazilian Thiago Braz silver (5.95) and American Christopher Nilsen bronze (5.90).
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