Yulimar Rojas dethroned! This athlete rises as the new Triple Jump world champion

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Failure in the World Indoor Athletics Championships, which will take place in Glasgow in 2024. The women’s Triple Jump, a discipline that has been dominated forcefully by the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas for approximately seven years, now has a new queen, and without a doubt it is a quite unexpected one.

The athlete Thea LaFond, originally from the small island of Dominica, located in the Caribbean Sea, surprised everyone and everyone by being crowned the new Triple Jump World Champion, achieving what is so far the best jump of her entire career. , with a fantastic mark of 15.01, this being the first time he has managed to reach 15 meters in a jump, thus achieving the first world athletics title for his country.

In this way, LaFond managed to defeat the great favorite, the Cuban Leyanis Pérez Hernández, who at 22 years of age is already emerging as one of the most important promises in this discipline. Pérez, Pan American champion, achieved a maximum mark of 14.90, 11 centimeters below what LaFond achieved.

The bronze went to the Spanish Ana Peleteiro, who achieved a more than successful return to high-performance competition, something that had not happened since the 2021 Olympic Games, since in 2022 she gave birth to a girl, which forced him not to compete all year, while 2023 was a year of regaining his physical form.

Furthermore, it is important to remember that the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, who had been crowned champion in the last three World Indoor Athletics Championships, did not compete in this edition, since she is 100% dedicated to her preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.