Yasser Triki
![]() Yasser Triki in 2018 | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki |
Born | Constantine (Algeria) | 24 March 1997
Education | University of Algiers 3[1] Texas A&M University[2] |
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Long jump, Triple jump |
Coached by | Azzedine Talhi |
Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki in Arabic (born 24 March 1997) is an Algerian athlete competing in the long jump and triple jump.[3] He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2017 Summer Universiade. He also won multiple medals at regional level.
Triki has broken the Algerian record in triple jump several times and was the first Algerian to jump over 17 meters.
Triki broke the Algerian record in the triple jump with 17.31 meters achieved in Algiers meeting on 4 June 2021, thus qualifying to the 2020 Summer Olympics. In June 2021, he won the gold medals in both long jump and triple jump at the 2021 Arab Athletics Championships held in Tunis with jumps of 7.96 meters and 17.26 meters, respectively. On July 7, 2021, he improved his national record with a jump of 17.33 meters during the Gyulai István Memorial in Budapest[4]
Triki also improved the Algerian indoor record in triple jump several times. He first broke the existing record held by Lotfi Khaida set in Indianapolis since March 1992 with 16.49 meters before this is broken by Triki on 25 January 2019 in Texas with a jump of 16.52. This record was improved on 11 February 2019 in Texas with 17.00 meters, before a new record is set a few days later in Fayetteville (North Carolina) on 23 February 2019 with a mark of 17.12 meters.[5]
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing ![]() | |||||
2013 | Arab Youth Championships | Cairo, Egypt | 1st | Long jump | 7.28 m |
1st | Triple jump | 15.06 m | |||
World Youth Championships | Donetsk, Ukraine | 7th | Long jump | 7.32 m | |
2014 | African Youth Games | Gaborone, Botswana | 1st | Long jump | 7.63 m |
3rd | Triple jump | 15.23 m | |||
World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 9th (q) | Long jump | 7.35 m1 | |
Youth Olympic Games | Nanjing, China | – | Long jump | NM | |
2015 | African Junior Championships | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | 3rd | Long jump | 7.39 m |
2016 | Arab Junior Championships | Tlemcen, Algeria | 1st | Long jump | 7.43 m |
1st | Triple jump | 16.01 m | |||
World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 4th | Long jump | 7.81 m | |
2017 | Islamic Solidarity Games | Baku, Azerbaijan | 14th | Long jump | 6.86 m |
5th | Triple jump | 16.14 m | |||
Arab Championships | Radès, Tunisia | 1st | Long jump | 7.83 m | |
1st | Triple jump | 16.63 m | |||
Universiade | Taipei, Taiwan | 2nd | Long jump | 7.96 m | |
5th | Triple jump | 16.60 m | |||
2018 | Mediterranean Games | Tarragona, Spain | 2nd | Long jump | 8.01 m |
African Championships | Asaba, Nigeria | 4th | Long jump | 8.01 m | |
3rd | Triple jump | 16.78 m | |||
2019 | Arab Championships | Cairo, Egypt | 2nd | Long jump | 7.97 m |
1st | Triple jump | 16.50 m | |||
African Games | Rabat, Morocco | 1st | Long jump | 8.01 m | |
2nd | Triple jump | 16.71 m | |||
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 20th (q) | Triple jump | 16.62 m | |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 5th | Triple jump | 17.43 m |
1Did not start in the final
Personal bests[]
Outdoor
- Long jump – 8m08 (+0.2 m/s, Five Rings Sports Center, Wuhan (CHN) 2019)
- Triple jump – 17m43 (+1.0 m/s, Tokyo Olympic Stadium, Tokyo (JPN, 5 August 2021, a national record)
Indoor
- Long jump – 7.69 (College Station,Texas 2018)
- Triple jump – 17.12 (Fayetteville, 23 February 2019, NR)
References[]
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Algerian male long jumpers
- Algerian male triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Algeria
- Texas A&M Aggies men's track and field athletes
- Algerian expatriates in the United States
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Universiade silver medalists for Algeria
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 African Games
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- African Games competitors for Algeria
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- African Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- African Games gold medalists for Algeria
- African Games silver medalists for Algeria
- Olympic athletes of Algeria
- 21st-century Algerian people
- Algerian athletics biography stubs