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Triple jump Olympic champion Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela claimed a third indoor world title in Belgrade on Sunday by shattering her own world record with a 15.74 metre leap.
Pole vault star Armand Duplantis also set a world record when the 22-year-old Olympic champion from Sweden jumped 6.20m in his last attempt on Sunday in Belgrade, having already secured gold with 6.05m.
Hurdles sprinter Grant Holloway clocked 7.29 seconds over 60m in the semi-finals, thus equalling his own world record. He was also unbeatable in the final, running 7.39 for gold.
In the men’s 1,500m, Ethiopian defending champion Samuel Tefera beat Norwegian Olympic champion and world indoor record holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 3:32.77 minutes thanks to an energetic final sprint.
In the women’s long jump, local hero Ivana Vuleta prevailed with 7.06m. The Serbian jumped the longest distance of the indoor season.
In the triple jump, the 26-year-old’s Rojas had set a previous best mark indoors of 15.43m and she went even further than her outdoor record of 15.67m from her victory at the Tokyo Games last year.
Silver went to Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk a full metre behind Rojas with 14.74m and was seen wrapped in her country’s flag close to tears.
The Russian invasion limited Ukraine to a team of just six in Belgrade but compatriot Yaroslava Mahuchikh managed an emotional high jump victory on Saturday.
Ethiopia’s Olympic champion over 10,000m Selemon Barega meanwhile won the men’s 3,000m, narrowly ahead of team-mate Lamecha Girma while bronze went to Briton Marc Scott.
Woo Sang Hyeok of South Korea won the men’s high jump with Swiss Loïc Gasch in silver and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy sharing bronze with New Zealander Hamish Kerr.
Rojas jumped over 15 metres four times in the final in Belgrade, landing the record on her sixth and final attempt.
Her closest rival was a full metre behind.
Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk of Ukraine won silver with 14.74 metres, a personal best. The bronze went to Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams with 14.62 metres.
World Athletics adds: Rojas has been a dominant force in the discipline since the 2016 Olympics, where she won silver, before winning the outdoor world title a year later and repeating the feat in Doha in 2019.
That sense of timing, showmanship and electrifying entertainment has become Rojas’s trademark. She did the same in Tokyo, saving her best for the final round, where she smashed the world record with 15.67m.
“I’ll tell you the truth, I don’t know,” she said. “It didn’t feel any different, but it is the jump for glory. Maybe one day I’ll be known as ‘the girl of the sixth jump’.”
Rojas said last year she had set her sights on going beyond 16 metres.
At the Stark Arena in Belgrade on Sunday, it was hard to disagree with her assessment, Rojas’s feat the highlight of a remarkable morning of athletics.
As she sat underneath the stadium an hour later, trying to make sense of what she’d done, she said the day “has been like living a dream”.
What makes her story all the more inspiring is how high she has climbed from such humble beginnings. Born in Caracas, Rojas grew up in Pozuelos, an underprivileged area outside the coastal town of Puerto la Cruz.
She started her athletics journey as a high jumper, clearing 1.81m at the age of 15. She turned to the long jump in 2013, leaping a Venezeulan U20 record of 6.23m and the following year she started triple jumping, leaping 13.65m at the age of 18.
Finishing second in the triple jump with 14.74m was Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, one of six Ukrainian athletes competing in the Serbian capital as a war rages on in their native country.
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Triple jump Olympic champion Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela claimed a third indoor world title in Belgrade on Sunday by shattering her own world record with a 15.74 metre leap.
Pole vault star Armand Duplantis also set a world record when the 22-year-old Olympic champion from Sweden jumped 6.20m in his last attempt on Sunday in Belgrade, having already secured gold with 6.05m.
Hurdles sprinter Grant Holloway clocked 7.29 seconds over 60m in the semi-finals, thus equalling his own world record. He was also unbeatable in the final, running 7.39 for gold.
In the men’s 1,500m, Ethiopian defending champion Samuel Tefera beat Norwegian Olympic champion and world indoor record holder Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 3:32.77 minutes thanks to an energetic final sprint.
In the women’s long jump, local hero Ivana Vuleta prevailed with 7.06m. The Serbian jumped the longest distance of the indoor season.
In the triple jump, the 26-year-old’s Rojas had set a previous best mark indoors of 15.43m and she went even further than her outdoor record of 15.67m from her victory at the Tokyo Games last year.
Silver went to Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk a full metre behind Rojas with 14.74m and was seen wrapped in her country’s flag close to tears.
The Russian invasion limited Ukraine to a team of just six in Belgrade but compatriot Yaroslava Mahuchikh managed an emotional high jump victory on Saturday.
Ethiopia’s Olympic champion over 10,000m Selemon Barega meanwhile won the men’s 3,000m, narrowly ahead of team-mate Lamecha Girma while bronze went to Briton Marc Scott.
Woo Sang Hyeok of South Korea won the men’s high jump with Swiss Loïc Gasch in silver and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy sharing bronze with New Zealander Hamish Kerr.
Rojas jumped over 15 metres four times in the final in Belgrade, landing the record on her sixth and final attempt.
Her closest rival was a full metre behind.
Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk of Ukraine won silver with 14.74 metres, a personal best. The bronze went to Jamaica’s Kimberly Williams with 14.62 metres.
World Athletics adds: Rojas has been a dominant force in the discipline since the 2016 Olympics, where she won silver, before winning the outdoor world title a year later and repeating the feat in Doha in 2019.
That sense of timing, showmanship and electrifying entertainment has become Rojas’s trademark. She did the same in Tokyo, saving her best for the final round, where she smashed the world record with 15.67m.
“I’ll tell you the truth, I don’t know,” she said. “It didn’t feel any different, but it is the jump for glory. Maybe one day I’ll be known as ‘the girl of the sixth jump’.”
Rojas said last year she had set her sights on going beyond 16 metres.
At the Stark Arena in Belgrade on Sunday, it was hard to disagree with her assessment, Rojas’s feat the highlight of a remarkable morning of athletics.
As she sat underneath the stadium an hour later, trying to make sense of what she’d done, she said the day “has been like living a dream”.
What makes her story all the more inspiring is how high she has climbed from such humble beginnings. Born in Caracas, Rojas grew up in Pozuelos, an underprivileged area outside the coastal town of Puerto la Cruz.
She started her athletics journey as a high jumper, clearing 1.81m at the age of 15. She turned to the long jump in 2013, leaping a Venezeulan U20 record of 6.23m and the following year she started triple jumping, leaping 13.65m at the age of 18.
Finishing second in the triple jump with 14.74m was Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, one of six Ukrainian athletes competing in the Serbian capital as a war rages on in their native country.
