In the early morning of March 3, Beijing time, in the women's triple jump competition of the World Athletics Federation Indoor Tour in Madrid, Rojas made her debut in the triple jump season, and she jumped 15 meters 41 in the fifth jump. Two years ago, on this site, Roxas set the current world record of 15 meters 43.
Yulimar Rojas was born on October 21, 1995 in Caracas, Venezuela. Talented in jumping, she started out as a high jumper, breaking the Venezuelan youth high jump record for her first time in the high jump at the age of 15, and then began to make her mark on the track and field. In 2014, Rojas, who had been practicing high jumping, had a bold idea, and she persuaded the coach at the time to start practicing triple jumping and become a long jumper.
People with goals will fight for more opportunities, and Roxas found his own Bole through social software. Ivan. Pedroso is a former Cuban long jumper who won the gold medal in the men's long jump at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the long jump at the World Championships in Athletics four times. Soon, Rojas sent a private message to Pedroso explaining his situation and expressing his admiration for him. I thought that the famous world-class athlete would not take care of herself, but unexpectedly, Pedroso invited her to Spain to train with her.
Trained by professional coaches, Rojas has improved rapidly. In 2016, at the Rio Olympics, Yulimar Rojas won the silver medal in the triple jump with a time of 14.98 meters. In 2017, at the World Athletics Championships in London, Rojas won the gold medal in the triple jump with a time of 14.91 meters, becoming the first athlete in Venezuelan history to win a gold medal at the World Championships.
On 21 February 2020, at the Madrid Indoor Championships, Yulimar Rojas jumped to a time of 15.43 meters, breaking the indoor triple jump world record of 15.36 meters held by Russian Tagiana Lebedeva. In the women's triple jump competition at the Tokyo Olympics, she jumped a staggering 15.67 meters, breaking the world record that has been sealed for 26 years and winning the Olympic gold medal!
"Breaking through 16 metres is part of my daily struggle and I will continue to give it my all for the rest of my sporting career." If you have goals and want to achieve great things, you have to believe that you can do it, don't set limits for yourself, Roxas is such an athlete without limits. The triple jump queen tells us with her actions that effort can break the ceiling. Her future is worth looking forward to!