The Venezuelan Yulimar RojasOlympic and world triple jump champion, achieved victory at the meeting of Lausanne (Switzerland) of diamond league by winning with 15.31, in a competition where he made four failures and fell short of his best marks such as the outdoor world record of 15.67.
Yulimar started the competition with a jump of 14.99 meters. Three failures followed and he saved his best jump for fifth, where he reached 15.31 with a -0.2 wind. In the last one, again, null, conserving the first place because the Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts did not exceed 14.64 meters of the second jump.
the ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, who reached 15.02 meters to clinch European gold last week, fell short of those marks and, with 14.31, finished third.
the Portuguese Patricia Mamona, number one in the continental ranking and Olympic runner-up in Tokyo, was left off the podium at the recent European Championships in Munich, in fourth place. In Lausanne he repeated the position with 14.22 meters.
Source: La Verdad
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