Yulimar Rojas
Yulimar Rojas (born onin Caracas) is a Venezuelan athlete specializing in the triple jump, Olympic champion in 2020 in Tokyo, quadruple reigning world champion in the discipline, twice outdoors and twice indoors, in 2016 in Portland, 2017 in London, 2018 in Birmingham and in 2019 in Doha.
She also won the silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
She is the current holder of the outdoor world record with 15.67 m achieved onin Tokyo at the Olympic Games and the world indoor record with 15.43 m, achieved on Februaryin Madrid.
Biography
Born in Caracas, but having been raised since the age of one year on a ranch in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui state, her first big success came in 2011 when she won the South American Championships. juniors in the high jump at the age of 16 only. In 2013 , she set a continental junior record with 1.87 m . It participates in the Bolivarian Games where she won the silver height (1.76 m ) and ranks sixth in the long jump (5.87 m ).
In 2014, Rojas won the high jump of the South American Games with 1.79 m. It participates in the World Junior Championships in Eugene where it does not pass the milestone of qualifications triple jump and where it ranks eleventh in the final of the long jump. At the end of the season, she failed twice at the foot of the podiums of the Central American and Caribbean Games held in Mexico (6.24 m in length and 13.54 m in the triple jump).
it carries its record to 14.17 m in Barinas before winning the title in June as the South American champion in Lima, with a jump of 14.14 m (VF) and a regular jump of 14.05m. The day before, she improved her national record in the long jump with 6.57m. In July , Yulimar Rojas participates in the Pan American Games in Toronto : it ranks eleventh in the long jump (6.36 m ) and fourth in the triple jump (14.20 m , national record). In this competition, she achieved 14.37 m but the wind was too favorable (+ 2.2 m / s).
World indoor title, Olympic medal (2016)
World Indoor Champion in Portland the , in Madrid , the Venezuelan leaps to 14.69 m . She improves her indoor record by almost 75 centimeters, improves her best world performance of the year (which was 13.97 m + to note that the Russian Ekaterina Koneva achieved 14.22 m but Russia is suspended for doping ) and makes it to the world's top 25 indoors of all time. February, she again performs a competition at 14.35 m. the, still in Madrid , Rojas jumps to 14.32 m (second attempt), 14.56 m (third attempt) then 14.63 m (fifth attempt).
the , as a big favorite, Yulimar Rojas is crowned world indoor champion at the world indoor championships in Portland with a jump to 14.41 m, her only one in the competition. She bites all of her other jumps, including one around 14.75m. She writes the history of her sport by becoming the first Venezuelan world champion.
the Next, Rojas participates in the first round of the 2016 diamond league circuit during the Doha Diamond League where there is a confrontation between her and the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen : on the second try, she jumps 14.61 m and provisionally establishes the best world performance of the year, as well as a meeting and national record. A few minutes later, Ibarguen responded by achieving 14.77m. On the third attempt, the Venezuelan responds again by achieving 14.79m. On the fifth try, Ibarguen sets a mark of 15.04m. Rojas achieves 14.92 m just after then Ibarguen concludes his competition with a jump to 14.98 m.
Barrier of 15 meters and Olympic silver medal
The , she created the history of the triple jump by winning the Meeting de Madrid with a jump of 15.02 m (- 0.4 m / s), making her the youngest athlete to cross the barrier of 15 meters (20 years).
the , Yulimar Rojas participates in the final of the Olympic Games in Rio where she confirms her 15.02 m in June by achieving 14.98 m. With this mark, she became Olympic vice-champion behind the Colombian Caterine Ibarguen who won with 15.17 m.
World title in London (2017)
After a winter season disrupted by an injury which slowed down her progress (she improved the national indoor record on), Yulimar Rojas opens its summer season on in Baie-Mahault ( Guadeloupe ) where she established the best world performance of the year with 14.67 m. She improves itin Andújar with 14.96 m.
The , she won the silver medal at the South American Championships taking place in Asuncion ( Paraguay ) where, after a 2ND test measured at 14.36 m, she was forced to retire following a pain in her left knee. She is preceded by the Brazilian Nubia Soares (14.42 m).
Back from injury, she posted a convincing performance of 14.83m in Monaco , for her last outing before the World Championships in London .
the , during the final of the world championships in London , Yulimar Rojas is stronger against the Colombian Caterine Ibarguen , unbeaten in major championships since 2013 . With 14.91 m, the Venezuelan won the 1ST world title in athletics for his country, ahead of Caterine Ibarguen of two centimeters and the Kazakh Olga Rypakova (14.77 m). On this occasion, she became the youngest world champion in the discipline , at age 21.
Second indoor world title (2018)
Despite no competition during the winter season, Yulimar Rojas lines up at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham as the defending champion, and in a bid to repeat it. At the 5th test, she jumped 14.63 m, best world performance of the year, and won the gold medal in front of the Jamaican Kimberly Williams (14.48 m) and the Spanish Ana Peleteiro (14.40 m), his training partner . She becomes the third athlete in history to retain her title, after Inessa Kravets ( 1991/1993 ) and Tatyana Lebedeva ( 2003/2004 ).
Second Performance history and second world title in Doha (2019)
After the championship, his foot and ankle injuries prevented him from performing in the summer season. She returns to the necklaces on In Karlsruhe , and jumped 14.45 meters to finish 2 behind Ana Peleteiro (14.51 m). thein Madrid , she took her indoor record to 14.92m and achieved the best indoor jump since 2010.
the , she jumped 6.79 m (+ 2.9 m / s) in the long jump and then exceeded the 15-meter mark five days later for the second time in her career in Huelva , with 15.06 m. She improved her 2016 record by 4 centimeters, broke the national record, established the best world performance of the year, and achieved the minimums for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. The , it won in the port of Monaco for the Meeting Herculis with 14.98 m .
the , in the absence of her rival Caterine Ibarguen due to injury, she easily won the Pan American Games in Lima and improved her personal best by 5 centimeters by bouncing to 15.11 m, best world performance of the year, best world brand since 2016 Games record, record of Venezuela , becoming the 16th best global performer in history. The first sacred Venezuelan in the triple jump , she notably achieves a bitten jump of 7 centimeters beyond the world record (15.50 m by Inessa Kravets in 1995).
the , during a meeting in Andújar , Yulimar Rojas entered the history of the triple jump by jumping in his sixth and last at 15.41 m (+ 1.5 m / s), the second best performance in the world of the story behind Inessa Kravets ' 15.50 m . She thus achieves the furthest jump since the world record, since no one had come so close since the Cameroonian Françoise Mbango Etone , author of 15.39 m in 2008. With this mark, the Venezuelan establishes an MPMA , a new record from South America , previously held by her rival Caterine Ibargüen with 15.31 m in 2014, a new record for Venezuela, personal record and meeting record. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro hails Rojas performance .
At the Doha World Championships on, she secures a second world gold medal in the triple jump, once again approaching the world record, her best attempt being measured at 15.37m. She made a total of four jumps over 14.70 m, far ahead of Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts , second in 14.92 m, and Colombian Caterine Ibarguen , third in 14.73 m.
World record indoors (2020)
Yulimar Rojas begins its winter season on 1st February at Valencia in Spain , where it set for his first competition in long jump of the season with a jump of 6.59 m, the new Venezuelan indoor record . The following week, in Metz , she made her return to the triple jump and immediately signed the best world performance of the year by beating her own South American indoor record twice in succession , with 14.94 m then 15.03 m, becoming on this occasion the sixth best female performer of all time indoors, and becoming the first athlete since Olga Rypakova in 2010 to jump over 15 meters in Indoor.
the , during the Madrid Meeting , Yulimar Rojas jumps to 15.29 m then during his last attempt, beats the world indoor record for the discipline with a jump measured at 15.43 m. At 24, the Venezuelan improves by seven centimeters the old reference mark held since theby Russian Tatyana Lebedeva.
In December 2020, she was elected female athlete of the year by the International Athletics Federation. She said on this occasion that she wanted to become the "first woman to jump beyond 16 meters".
Olympic champion and outdoor world record in Tokyo (2021)
After kicking off his 2021 season with a triple jump to 15.14m in Ibiza on May 8, Rojas completed 15.43m in Andújar two weeks later, again breaking his personal outdoor best and approaching 7 centimeters of the world record of the discipline. With this brand, the Venezuelan now holds three of the five best world performances of all time.
At the Tokyo Olympics , she won the final with a last jump measured at 15.67 m on at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. It pulverizes by 17 cm the previous world record of Inessa Kravets dating from August 10, 1995 29 .
Privacy
Yulimar Rojas is openly homosexual.
Her sister Yerilda Zapata is a discus thrower who competed in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games.
Awards
| Dated | Competition | Place | Results | Test | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | South American Championships | Cartagena de Indias | 5th | Height | 1.73 m |
| 7th | Length | 6.18 m | |||
| Junior Pan Am Games | Medellin | 2nd | Height | 1.76 m | |
| Bolivarian Games | Trujillo | 2nd | Height | 1.76 m | |
| 2014 | South American Games | Santiago | 1st | Height | 1.79 m |
| World Junior Championships | Eugene | 11th | Length | 5.81 m | |
| Pan American Sports Festival | Mexico | 1st | Length | 6.53 m | |
| South American U23 Championships | Montevideo | 1st | Length | 6.36 m | |
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.35 m | |||
| 2015 | South American Championships | Lima | 4th | Length | 6.20 m |
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.14 m | |||
| Pan American Games | Toronto | 11th | Length | 6.36 m | |
| 4th | Triple jump | 14.37 m | |||
| Military World Games | Mungyeong | 4th | Height | 1.80 m | |
| 2nd | Triple jump | 13.82 m | |||
| 2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland | 1st | Triple jump | 14.41 m |
| Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro | 2nd | Triple jump | 14.98 m | |
| 2017 | South American Championships | Luque | 2nd | Triple jump | 14.36 m |
| Diamond League | 2nd | Triple jump | 14.52 m | ||
| World's Championships | London | 1st | Triple jump | 14.91 m | |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham | 1st | Triple jump | 14.63 m |
| 2019 | IAAF World Indoor Tour | 1st | Triple jump | details | |
| Pan American Games | Lima | 1st | Triple jump | 15.11 m | |
| Diamond League | 2nd | Triple jump | 14.74 m | ||
| World's Championships | Doha | 1st | Triple jump | 15.37 m | |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo | 1st | Triple jump | 15.67 m |
Records
| Test | Mark | Place | Dated | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long jump | Outdoors | 6.88 m (NR) | La Nucia | |
| High jump | Outdoors | 1.87 m | Barquisimeto | |
| Triple jump | Outdoors | 15.67 m (WR) | Tokyo | |
| Indoors | 15.43 m (WR) | Madrid | ||
