There are several Yulimar Rojas records after winning the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and having their home country celebrating.
Venezuela still celebrates the conquest of the triple jump test in the Olympic Games. The athlete from Caracas closed her Olympic cycle with a flourish in which she already warned that she was going for gold, since she had been world champion twice. In the previous Olympics, she had to resign herself to silver after finishing with the second best mark after Colombian Caterine Ibargüen, who jumped to glory and won.
The Olympics have great stories because Caterine Ibargüen herself sent a message to Mercedes Pérez after failing to win a medal and now, it is known that Rojas smashed several world records and the jousting ones created in Olympia, Greece, after jumping 15.67 meters on his last try.
The records of Yulimar Rojas, triple jump gold winner in Tokyo
The figure imposed by the Venezuelan not only earned her to be at the top of the podium, but also meant that she became the queen of the triple jump in history. With the 15.67 meters she obtained, she improved by 17 centimeters the world record held by the Ukrainian Inessa Kravets, set in 1995 during the World Cups in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Also, Yulimar had been the only jumper to pass the 15 meters in this entire Olympic cycle, since she had done it 17 times during the last year. The athlete, 1.92 centimeters tall and 72 kilos in weight, reached 14.77 meters in her qualifying jump in Tokyo, which means that from one day to the next she jumped almost a meter more to win and inscribe her name in the history books. of sport.
It should be remembered that the national jumper, Caterine Ibargüen, participated in this test and registered tenth place with a mark of 14.25 meters. At 37 years old, the one born in Apartadó fulfilled the goals of her professional career by winning a silver medal in London 2012 and gold in Rio 2016, and in this participation she said goodbye to the Olympic Games forever.
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