Pablo Torrijos

Pablo Torrijos
Full name	Pablo Torrijos Navarro
nation	Spain
birthday	12th May 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Castellón de la Plana ,  Spain
size	187 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.09 m
society	Playas de Castellón
Trainer	Juan Carlos Álvarez
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European Indoor Championships silver Prague 2015 Triple jump
last change: July 26, 2020

Pablo Torrijos Navarro (born May 12, 1992 in Castellón de la Plana ) is a Spanish athlete who specializes in the triple jump . In this discipline he is the holder of the national indoor record. In 2015 he became Vice European Indoor Champion.

Athletic career

Pablo Torrijos has competed in athletics since 2009. At that time, in addition to the triple jump, he also started in the long jump. In both disciplines, he qualified for the U18 World Championships in Brixen, Italy. In both disciplines, however, he did not get beyond the qualification and, especially in the triple jump, remained well behind his possibilities. In 2010 he improved in the long jump up to 7.28 m and was also able to improve in the triple jump. In summer 2011 he competed in the triple jump at the U20 European Championships in Tallinn. He managed to jump to 15.71 m in the final, with which he was sixth. In 2012, he jumped 16 meters twice in a competition in his home town of Castellón, improving his best performance to 16.47 m. 2012 was the last year so far in which he was able to improve his performance in the long jump, although he still competes in long jump competitions on a national level.

As a result, he regularly made jumps over 16 meters. In summer 2013 he started at the U23 European Championships in Tampere. He made it into the final, but remained behind his qualification performance with 16.06 m and finished eighth. In 2014 he took part in his first international adult championship at the European Championships in Zurich. He made it into the final straight away. He was able to leave four jumpers behind and finished eighth with 16.56 m. This was the best result of a Spanish three-jumper at a European championship at the time. In spring 2015, Torrijos set a new national record with his victory at the Spanish indoor championships with 17.03 m. Until today, as of 2020, it is the only Spaniard who could jump more than 17 meters in the hall. With his width, he then led the European best list in the run-up to the European Indoor Championships . Two weeks after the indoor record, he then started at the European Championships. After successfully qualifying, he even put a centimeter on top of the best performance in the final and thus won the silver medal. In August he took part in the world championships for the first time in Beijing . At his World Cup premiere, he was eliminated in qualifying and finished in 20th place overall. The preparation for the 2016 Olympic season initially began with smaller indoor distances, but he reached the final at the World Indoor Championships in Portland, which he finished in seventh place. In the summer, his best performance in the open air improved to 16.89 m. Just a week later he started at the European Championships in Amsterdam. As already two years before, he landed in eighth place after reaching the finals. In August he took part in the highlight of the season, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the qualification, however, he only came to 16.11 m and was eliminated as eleventh in his qualifying group.

At the end of 2016, Torrijos decided to leave his homeland Castellón and his Italian coach Claudio Veneziano, with whom he still has a good relationship, and instead move to the capital, Madrid, and there under the guidance of Juan Carlos Álvarez ', together with his teammate Train Eusebio Cáceres . In 2017 Torrijos started at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade. There he ended up in ninth place in the final. In the open air he climbed up to 16.96 m over the course of the year and thus also created the standard for the World Championships in London. In his second World Cup participation, this time he made it into the final. He then dropped out after the first three jumps, but left two jumpers behind with 16.60 m. In June 2018, he also managed to jump over 17 meters outdoors for the first time. At the Spanish championships at the end of July he even jumped 17.23 m when he won, which, however, could not be counted due to the strong tailwind. In August he then took part in the European Championships in Berlin , where he again made it into the final. This time he was able to place better with 16.74 m and the associated fifth place than in his first two European Championship participations. In 2019, he didn't come close to his best performances all year round. In March he missed the final at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Overall, he finished 15th in Scotland. Due to injuries, he then missed the World Championships in Doha. It increased again in March 2020, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe. At the Spanish indoor championships, he increased his national record to 17.18 m. He took third place on the world's best list. In July he took part in a competition for the first time in Osterode am Harz. Less than a week later, he set a new best in the open air with 17.09 m.

So far, Torrijos has been a total of ten Spanish champions, five times in the open air and five times in the hall. In addition to the national record in the hall for adults, he also set a U23 national record in 2014. His goal is to reach the top 8 at the postponed Summer Olympics 2020 in Tokyo.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Spain
2009	U18 world championships	Brixen	33.	Long jump	6.79 m
			14th	Triple jump	14.73 m
2011	U20 European Championships	Tallinn	6th	Triple jump	15.71 m
2013	U23 European Championships	Tampere	8th.	Triple jump	16.06 m
2014	European championships	Zurich	8th.	Triple jump	16.56 m
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague	2.	Triple jump	17.04 m
	World championships	Beijing	20th	Triple jump	16.32 m
2016	Indoor world championships	Portland	7th	Triple jump	16.67 m
	European championships	Amsterdam	8th.	Triple jump	16.34 m
	Olympic Summer Games	Rio de Janeiro	31.	Triple jump	16.11 m
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade	9.	Triple jump	16.73 m
	World championships	London	10.	Triple jump	16.60 m
2018	European championships	Berlin	5.	Triple jump	16.74 m
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow	15th	Triple jump	16.18 m

Personal best

open air

• Triple jump: 17.09 m, July 29, 2020, Castellón

Hall

• Triple jump: 17.18 m, March 1, 2020, Ourense , (Spanish record)

Web links

• Pablo Torrijos in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Pablo Torrijos in the database of European Athletics (English)
• Pablo Torrijos in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Histórico récord de España en triple: 17.03 metros de Pablo Torrijos. In: rfea.es. February 22, 2015, accessed July 26, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ^ Carlos Arribas: El gran salto de Pablo Torrijos. In: elpais.com. March 1, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 (Spanish). 
3. ↑ Profile on rfea.es.Retrieved on July 26, 2020. (Spanish)
4. ↑ Ismael Pérez: Pablo Torrijos, dos zancadas más para aterrizar en Tokyo: "El salto de Ourense no fue perfecto". In: runnersworld.com. March 5, 2020, accessed July 26, 2020 (Spanish).