The athlete Yulimar Rojas, the Venezuelan heroine of athletics

The athlete Yulimar Rojas, the Venezuelan heroine of athletics, who has given everything for her country, and in the midst of the crisis, is an icon of hope.

Yulimar Andrea Rojas Rodríguez is a Venezuelan triple jump athlete who holds the world record in this specialty with a mark of 15.74 meters.

Since it came to public light it has become an object of admiration, due to its humble origin.

The athlete Yulimar Rojas did not have in mind to compete in the triple jump, because in reality, she played volleyball, until an athlete noticed the great potential.

Rojas, in 2021 she won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and is also a quadruple world champion in the 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023 editions.

As well as triple world indoor champion in 2016, 2018 and 2022.

In the latter competition he achieved the current world record with a jump of 15.74 m.

In 2020 she was voted best female athlete of the year by World Athletics.

The story of Yulimar Rojas is like many Venezuelans, in the midst of adverse conditions.

But she set a goal for herself and she was able to achieve it.

The athlete Yulimar Rojas, the Venezuelan heroine

Yulimar was born in Caracas, but grew up in Puerto La Cruz.

At first she was interested in volleyball, a sport she played as a hobby for a few years.

Excited by the Venezuelan national team that went to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she went to the local sports center where there were no coaches.

But the athletics coaches saw her and became interested in her.

Thus, at the age of 15 he participated in the XVIII National Games in Lara, winning the high jump event with 1.70 meters.

He achieved his first international success at the 2011 South American Youth Athletics Championships, where he won the high jump event with 1.78 meters.

At the XVI National Student Games in 2012 she won the 100 meters hurdles, making a time of 14.81 seconds.

In 2013 she participated in the Grand Prix Ximena Restrepo, winning gold in high jump, with a height of 1.76 meters.

That same year he improved his personal best of 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1/2 in) with a jump in Barquisimeto, which was a South American youth record.

Two international silver medals came that year at the 2013 Pan American Youth Athletics Championships, and the Bolivarian Games, where she was second to Kashani Ríos.

She also competed in the long jump in the latter case placing sixth.

The improvement in his new event, he had a best of 6.23 m (20 ft) in 51/4 in the long jump that year.

The athlete Yulimar Rojas established herself as the best of her country in jumps at the 2015 Venezuelan Championships.

At the age of nineteen, she won the continental triple jump title at the 2015 South American Athletics Championships, taking gold on her debut in the competition.

In 2015 he moved to Guadalajara, Spain, to continue his athletic training under the orders of former Cuban athlete Ivan Pedroso.

Who he met through Facebook, because they didn’t know each other.

On August 14, 2016 she won the silver medal in triple jump at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, with a mark of 14.98 meters, only behind the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen.

Since then she had an escalation in her career, which led her to get the gold at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In these games, her first jump, of 15.41 meters, beat the Olympic record that Françoise Mbango Etone had achieved in Beijing 2008.

While in his sixth jump he reached a distance of 15.67 meters, breaking his own Olympic record.

In addition, setting a new world record in the discipline by surpassing the mark of 15.50 meters made by the Ukrainian Inessa Kravets in 1995.

On March 20, 2022, he broke the world record again with a jump of 15.74 m in the final of the Indoor World Championships, a title he won for the third time in a row.

On August 25, 2023, Yulimar Rojas becomes the first four-time champion of the outdoor triple jump, with 15.08 meters in the last attempt.

She is the most awarded athlete in the history of competition in this outdoor discipline.

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