Jordan Díaz

Jordan Díaz
Jordan Díaz (2018)
Full name	Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortun
nation	Cuba
birthday	23rd February 2001 (age 19)
place of birth	Cuba
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 17.49 m Hall: 17.07 m
status	active
Medal table
Pan American Games 0 × 1 × 0 × CAC games 0 × 1 × 0 × North American Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Pan American Games silver Lima 2019 Triple jump Central America and Caribbean Games silver Barranquilla 2018 Triple jump North American Championships gold Toronto 2018 Triple jump  Youth Olympic Games gold Buenos Aires 2018 Triple jump  Junior World Championships gold Tampere 2018 Triple jump  Youth World Championships gold Nairobi 2017 Triple jump
last change: February 23, 2020

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortun (born February 23, 2001 ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in the triple jump . In 2018 he won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games .

Athletic career

Jordan Díaz started athletics at the age of eight. He eventually specialized in the triple jump through the disciplines high jump and long jump. For the first time in 2015 at the age of 14, he then competed in a triple jump competition in his Cuban homeland, in which he reached 14.60 m. The following year he jumped over 15 meters. In 2017 he competed at the U18 World Championships in Nairobi. In the qualification he reached 15.98 m and made it into the final with ease. In the final he then increased by more than a meter to 17.30 m and was thus able to win the title. The width meant a new youth world record in the triple jump.

In June 2018 he increased his record from 2017 to 17.41 m. In July he started at the U20 World Championships in Tampere, where he was victorious with 17.15 m. In August he won the silver medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games and gold at the North American Championships in Toronto. He won another gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. In July 2019, he set his best performance of 17.49 m at the Cuban U20 championships. In August he won the silver medal at the Pan American Games in Lima with 17.38 m . In October he also took part in the adult world championships for the first time. As third in his qualification group he moved into the final, in which he finished eighth with 17.06 m.

In February 2020, at a meeting in Liévin, he improved his indoor best distance to 17.07 m and also set a new junior continental record.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Cuba
2017	U18 world championships	Nairobi	1.	Triple jump	17.30 m
2018	U20 world championships	Tampere	1.	Triple jump	17.15 m
	Central America and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla	2.	Triple jump	17.29 m
	North American Championships	Toronto	1.	Triple jump	16.83 m
	Youth Olympic Games	Buenos Aires	1.	Triple jump	17.04 m
2019	Pan American Games	Lima	2.	Triple jump	17.38 m
	World championships	Doha	8th.	Triple jump	17.06 m

Personal best

open air

• Triple jump : 17.49 m, July 3, 2019, Camagüey

Hall

• Triple jump: 17.07 m, January 27, 2019, Liévin

Web links

• Jordan Díaz in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ First high, then long, until finally the triple jump superstar is born
2. ↑ Entry at worldathletics.org