Will Claye

Will Claye
Will Claye at the 2011 World Championships
Full name	William Claye
nation	United States
birthday	June 13, 1991
place of birth	Tucson
size	180 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump , long jump
Best performance	18.14 m, 8.29 m
Trainer	Jeremy Fisher
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 2 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 2 × Indoor World Cup 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2012 London Triple jump bronze 2012 London Long jump silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Triple jump  World championships bronze 2011 Daegu Triple jump bronze 2013 Moscow Triple jump silver 2017 London Triple jump silver 2019 Doha Triple jump  Indoor world championships gold 2012 Istanbul Triple jump gold 2018 Birmingham Triple jump
last change: September 29, 2019

Will Claye (born June 13, 1991 in Tucson ) is an American long and triple jumper .

Life

In 2009 he became US and Pan America junior triple jump champion and, starting for the University of Oklahoma , NCAA triple jump champion.

In 2011 he moved to the University of Florida and became US runner-up in long and triple jump. At the World Athletics Championships in Daegu , he was ninth in the long jump and won bronze in the triple jump with the new personal best of 17.50 m.

In 2012 Claye increased his indoor triple jump distance to 17.70 m and was thus world indoor champion in Istanbul . In the long jump, he finished fourth. At the Olympic Games in London he improved to 17.62 m outdoors and won the silver medal in the triple jump. He secured a second medal in the long jump, where he was third with a margin of one centimeter.

At the World Championships in Moscow in 2013 he won the bronze medal with 17.52 m.

In June 2014 he won the US championships against long-term competitor Christian Taylor with a new record of 17.75 m .

In 2015, at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, surprisingly, with a width of 16.41 m, he did not exceed the qualification. He came in second in the US championships and fifth in the world's best list.

In 2016 Claye tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in both the long jump and the triple jump . At the USA Olympic Trials, a third place with 8.42 m, which actually ensures participation in the Olympics, was not enough for him, since the athlete must have passed the qualification standard. The jumps within the elimination competition, with which he had exceeded the norm, were not taken into account due to inadmissible wind support. After his triple jump victory, Claye only took part in the Olympic Games in this discipline. There he was able to secure the silver medal behind Christian Taylor, also from the United States, with a width of 17.76 m, a new personal best.

On May 27, 2017, he fought a duel with him at the Diamond League in Eugene (Oregon) , for the second time in history two athletes jumped more than 18 meters in a competition. With a width of 18.05 m, which was not rated as the best performance due to an impermissible tail wind, Claye had to admit defeat to Taylor, who jumped six centimeters further. Claye's second best jump of 17.82 m also marked a new personal best. At the World Championships in London , he won the silver medal behind Taylor.

At the 2018 Indoor World Championships in Birmingham, he narrowly beat Almir dos Santos and Nelson Évora with 17.43 m and won his second gold medal at an Indoor World Championships.

In August 2018, Claye gave a positive doping test for Clenbuterol . It has been traced back to contaminated meat from Mexico, so Claye was not banned.

As in 2017, he won the silver medal behind Christian Taylor at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha .

Will Claye is 1.80 m tall and weighs 73 kg. He is featured as a feature in the 2013 song IDGAF by rapper YG .

Personal best

• Long jump: 8.29 m, May 14, 2011, Athens
  • Hall: 8.24 m, February 10, 2012, Fayetteville
• Triple jump: 18.14 m, June 29, 2019, Long Beach
  • Hall: 17.70 m, March 11, 2012, Istanbul

Web links

Commons : Will Claye  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Will Claye in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait on the USA Track & Field website
• Will Claye in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ DLV trainers exchange ideas with Ennis coach November 12, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2017
2. ↑ Official Athletics Site of the Oklahoma Sooners: Player Bio: Will Claye ( Memento of the original from August 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Christian Taylor wins 18-meter duel against Will Claye on May 27, 2017, accessed on May 28, 2017
4. ↑ US Track & Field Athlete William Claye Accepts Finding of No Fault for Anti-Doping Rule Violation
5. ↑ Triple Jump men. In: iaaf.org. September 29, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Will Claye on his relationship with YG, an upcoming album and top five rappers dead or alive. In: citiusmag.com. March 23, 2017, accessed September 18, 2019 .