Yulimar Rojas

Yulimar Rojas
Yulimar Rojas in Paris 2019
Full name	Yulimar Andrea Rojas Rodríguez
nation	Venezuela
date of birth	21st October 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Puerto La Cruz , Venezuela
size	192 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	Open air: 15.67 m Hall: 15.43 m
society	FC Barcelona
Trainer	Iván Pedroso
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Indoor World Championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × South American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × South American Championships 1 × 1 × 0 × Military world games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 14.98 m gold Tokyo 2020 15.67 m  World championships gold London 2017 14.91 m gold Doha 2019 15.37 m  Indoor World Championships gold Portland 2016 14.41 m gold Birmingham 2018 14.63 m  Pan American Games gold Lima 2019 15.11 m South American Games gold Santiago de Chile 2014 1.79 m South American Championships gold Lima 2015 14.14 m silver Asunción 2017 14.36 m Military world games silver Mungyeong 2015 13.82 m
last change: August 1, 2021

Yulimar Andrea Rojas Rodríguez (* 21st October 1995 in Puerto La Cruz ) is a Venezuelan triple jumper at the beginning of her career in the high and long jump was launched. Her greatest triple jump successes include winning the gold medal at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo , where she reached the world record length of 15.67 m in her last attempt, the silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the gold medals at the World Championships 2017 in London and 2019 in Doha .

Athletic career

Yulimar Rojas gained her first international experience at the Junior South American Championships 2011 in Medellín , where she won the gold medal in the high jump with a jump of 1.78 m. The following year she was sixth at the Ibero-American Championships in Barquisimeto with 1.75 m and then won the bronze medal at the U23 South American Championships in São Paulo with 1.73 m. Then she reached fourth place at the Youth South American Championships in Mendoza with 1.68 m. In 2013 Rojas became Venezuelan champion in the high jump and she finished fifth in the high jump with 1.73 m and seventh in the long jump with 6.18 m at the South American Championships in Cartagena . She then won the silver medal at the Pan American Junior Championships in Medellín with 1.76 m and was fourth with the Venezuelan 4 x 100 meter relay in 46.70 s. At the Juegos Bolivarianos in Trujillo , she also won silver with a height of 1.76 m and was sixth in the long jump with a width of 5.87 m. In 2014 she won the South American Games in Santiago de Chile with 1.79 m. Then she reached the Junior World Championships in Eugene with 5.81 m in the long jump and was eliminated in the triple jump with 12.99 m in the qualification. This was followed by victory with 6.53 m in the long jump at the Pan American Sports Festival in Mexico City and the two gold medals in the long and triple jump at the U23 South American Championships in Montevideo . At the end of the season she was fourth in both competitions at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Xalapa .

In 2015 she won the South American Championships in Lima with 14.14 m and took fourth place in the long jump with 6.20 m. Then she was at the Pan American Games in Toronto with 14.37 m fourth in the triple jump and with a width of 6.36 m eleventh in the long jump. In October, she won the silver medal at the Military World Games in Mungyeon, South Korea, with 13.82 m and finished fourth and eighth in the high and long jump. In 2016, she surprised by winning the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Portland , where she prevailed against the German Kristin Gierisch with 14.41 m . She also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she only had to admit defeat to the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen with 14.98 m in the final . In 2017, she surprisingly lost her title at the South American Championships in Luque to the Brazilian Núbia Soares . However, she then won the World Championships in London with a width of 14.91 m in the final and won a gold medal for Venezuela for the first time in these championships. The following year she successfully defended her title at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham with 14.63 m, but did not contest the entire season.

In February 2019 she jumped a new indoor South American record with 14.92 m in Madrid . Outdoors she only started the season in June, but then immediately set a new national record of 15.06 m in Huelva . At the Pan American Games in Lima, she improved this one more time with 15.11 m and thus won the gold medal. This made her the big favorite for the World Championships in Doha , where she outclassed the competition in the final with an impressive 15.37 m. On February 21, 2020, Rojas in Madrid improved the indoor world record held by Russian Tatyana Lebedewa since 2004 in the triple jump by seven centimeters to 15.43 m. Rojas won the triple jump competition at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo with the world record of 15.67 m, when she jumped the old record of the Ukrainian Inessa Krawez from 1995 in Gothenburg in her last attempt .

Rojas' center of life is now in Barcelona, ​​where she starts for the athletics department of FC Barcelona. Her trainer is the former long jump world champion and Olympic champion Iván Pedroso .

Personal best

• High jump: 1.87 m, April 5, 2013 in Barquisimeto
• Long jump: 6.57 m (0.0 m / s), April 17, 2015 in Barinas
  • Long jump (indoor): 6.59 m, February 1, 2020 in Valencia
• Triple jump: 15.67 m (+0.7 m / s), August 1, 2021 in Tokyo ( world record )
  • Triple jump (hall): 15.43 m, February 21, 2020 in Madrid ( world record )

Private

Rojas came out as a lesbian.

Web links

Commons : Yulimar Rojas  - Collection of Images

• Yulimar Rojas in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yulimar Rojas in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• IAAF Inside Athletics - Yulimar Rojas ( English ) IAAF. March 20, 2018. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
• Thomas Byrne: Rojas provides Venezuela's spring of hope after historic 2017 ( English ) IAAF. December 5, 2017. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
• Gunnar Meinhardt: "Genetically she was kissed by God" . Die Welt, August 8, 2017
• Paul Halford: Yulimar Rojas' quantum leap on athleticsweekly.com on May 4, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Portland heralds a turning point for Rojas and Venezuela ( English ) IAAF. March 26, 2016. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
2. ↑ Eduardo Biscayart: Rojas leaps world-leading 15.11m at Pan-American Games ( English ) World Athletics. August 10, 2019. Retrieved February 21, 2020.
3. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Rojas breaks world indoor triple jump record in Madrid with 15.43m ( English ) World Athletics. February 21, 2020. Accessed February 21, 2020.
4. ↑ Athletics - Final Results. Retrieved August 1, 2021 (American English). 
5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Yulimar Rojas triple jump Olympic champion with a world record. Retrieved August 1, 2021 . 
6. ↑ Gunnar Meinhardt : “Genetically she was kissed by God” . Die Welt, August 8, 2017
7. ↑ CaracasChronicles: Venezuela's Trailblazers of Pride