The Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, absolute queen of the triple jump, further enlarged her legend by obtaining this Sunday in Belgrade his third indoor world title with a new record for the discipline (15.74).
With the title almost in her pocket for being the only athlete capable of exceeding 15 meters (in her first attempt, the third and the fifth), ROjas achieved the record in the sixth and final jump to sign up for his third indoor world championship, after those achieved in Portland-2016 and Bimingham-2018 (in 2020 there was no championship due to the pandemic).
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With that jump of 15.74 m at the Stark Arena in the Serbian capital, the Venezuelan improves her previous world record by 7 centimeters (15.67), Obtained at the Tokyo Games in 2021, where she won the gold medal and surpassed the historic mark that the Ukrainian Inessa Kravets (15.50 m) had held since 1995.
Rojas (who has not lost in a major international competition since the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen defeated him in the Rio-2016 Games) He also had in his possession the best historical record on the indoor track since he jumped 15.43 m in Madrid in February 2020.
Trained by Cuban Iván Pedroso, Olympic long jump champion (2000), the 26-year-old Venezuelan, 1.92 m tall He successfully combines excellent physical qualities with perfect technique.
Undefeated since 2016
Raised in Altavista, a disadvantaged neighborhood of Puerto La Cruz, a coastal city 300 km east of Caracas, the FC Barcelona athlete was chosen the best of 2020 by the International Federation after breaking the indoor record.
The absolute superiority of the Venezuelan in this discipline, of which she is also a double outdoor world champion (2017 and 2019), was once again in evidence, distancing the silver medalist, the Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, by one meter ( 14.74m).
After Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s high jump gold on Saturday, Bekh-Romanchuk’s silver is the second medal for the Ukrainian delegation, made up of only six athletes in Belgrade due to the war situation in this country after being invaded by Russia. .
Jamaican Kimberly Williams completed the podium, with a best jump of 14.62 m. The Spanish Ana Peleteiro, third in the last Tokyo Games, achieved a best jump of 14.30 m, his best mark of the season, but insufficient to fight for the medals and far from the 14.87 m that gave him the Olympic bronze.
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