The Venezuelan athlete Yulimar Rojastriple jump world and Olympic champion, qualified this Saturday for the final of Eugene World Cups (USA) with the law of minimum expenditure: he jumped 14.73 meters on his first attempt at the qualifying round and went to the hotel to rest.
The mark required for automatic access to the final on Monday (18:20 local time) is 14.40 meters.
Her training partner Ana Peleteiro missed the appointment. The Spanish record holder, who climbed with her to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic podium to collect the bronze medal, parked athletics to become a mother for the first time.
Rojas, triple world record holder, will not be able to double in these World Cups, as he had planned, as he lacks the mandatory minimum mark in length.
His 6.93 -meter jump made on June 8 at his Spanish base camp in Guadalajara was not approved by World Athletics because he did it using triple jump shoes, whose sole (25 mm) exceeded the thickness limit (20 mm). ) approved for shoes. haba.
Rojas intended to double Eugene, in search of an unprecedented historical double, but according to his coach, Cuban Ivan Pedroso, he decided not to try the minimum length again due to psoas discomfort he experienced in June and may it will cause their participation in the World Cup to be in jeopardy.
The double horizontal jump at an outdoor World Championship was a victory that has not been achieved until now, even though Russian Tatiana Levedeva achieved it on an indoor track in Budapest 2004.
Source: La Verdad
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