Yulimar Rojas

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.
Yulimar Rojas
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Rojas in 2019
Personal information
NationalityVenezuelan
Born (1995-10-21) 21 October 1995 (age 26)
Caracas, Venezuela
Height1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
CountryVenezuela
SportAthletics
Event(s)Triple jump, long jump
TeamFC Barcelona Athletics
Coached byIván Pedroso
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • Outdoor
  • Triple jump: 15.67 m (51 ft 4+3⁄4 in) WR (Tokyo 2021)
  • Long jump: 7.27 m (23 ft 10 in) w (La Nucia 2021)
    6.88 m (22 ft 6+3⁄4 in) NR (La Nucia 2021)
  • Indoor
  • Triple jump: 15.43 m (50 ft 7+1⁄4 in) i WR (Madrid 2020)
  • Long jump: 6.81 m (22 ft 4 in) i NR (Liévin 2022)
Medal record
Representing  Venezuela
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Triple jump
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Triple jump
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 London Triple jump
Gold medal – first place 2019 Doha Triple jump
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Portland Triple jump
Gold medal – first place 2018 Birmingham Triple jump
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima Triple jump
South American Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Santiago High jump
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Lima Triple jump
Silver medal – second place 2017 Asunción Triple jump

Yulimar Rojas Rodríguez (Venezuelan Spanish pronunciation: [ʝuliˈmaɾ ˈroxah];[1] also known as Yolimar Rojas; born 21 October 1995) is a Venezuelan athlete who holds the world record for women's triple jump. She is the current Olympic champion, a two-time World Champion (2017 London and 2019 Doha), and two-time World Indoor Champion (2016 Portland and 2018 Birmingham). Raised in a deprived area of Venezuela, she was successful in other sports as a teenager but could not continue to practice due to lack of facilities. She moved to Guadalajara, Spain, in 2015 to continue her athletics training. She is a recipient of the Venezuelan Order of José Félix Ribas – First Class.

She holds both women's triple jump world records: her personal best of 15.67 m (51 ft 4+3⁄4 in), the world record, was set during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, on 1 August 2021, as her final jump in the final round. She beat the previous world record, set by Ukraine's Inessa Kravets in 1995, by 17 centimetres (6+1⁄2 in). She also holds the indoor world record of 15.43 m (50 ft 7+1⁄4 in). Since 2014 she has held, and continued to beat, Venezuelan national records in triple jump and long jump.

Early life[]

Yulimar Rojas Rodríguez was born in Caracas and raised in a ranchito (shack, lit. 'little ranch') in the Altavista area (compared to a favela) of Pozuelos, Anzoátegui, where the family moved so that her stepfather could find work in the oil industry. She is one of six siblings, and has said that growing up in a large, poor family gave her drive to overcome adversities, which helped her career.[2][3][4] Their ranchito has since been destroyed in bad weather;[4] the family was given better housing in 2014 following Rojas's success.[5] Rojas told RTVE that she had grown up only seeking to have some dignity in life, but after she began competing, she promised her mother, Yuliesy Rodríguez, that one day she would buy her a small house with walls, and strove to be able to make good on that promise.[6][4] Her early coaches have said that despite being talented and persevering, Rojas could not have become a successful athlete if she had not left the country, as she would not have access to food and medical treatment to stay healthy.[7]

Inspired by the Venezuelan delegation at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Rojas, a tall child, wanted to become a volleyball player, but there was no team in Anzoátegui. She also played basketball, but similarly could not find coaches.[8][9][7] Her stepfather, former boxer Pedro Zapata, told her to enroll in a specialist sports school.[10] She was encouraged to try athletics under coach Jesús "Tuqueque" Velásquez at the Simón Bolívar Sports Complex in Puerto la Cruz.[7] Velásquez told AFP that, though the stadium was financed by the government at the time, Rojas and other young athletes had to help dig the sandpit where they could practice jumps, under a jujube tree.[11][12]

Her first athletic event was shot put, and while she won her first competition she chose to explore other sports. Aged 15 she entered her first high jump competition and set a new national youth record, ranking #11 in the world.[9] Showing young promise, she was invited to international competitions, but her estranged father would not give permission for her to leave the country until there was a championship held in neighboring Colombia.[3][9] She has cited triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish, Venezuela's only athletics Olympic medalist prior to Rojas herself, as an inspiration in her development.[9][13] Two of Rojas's sisters, Yerilda and Yorgelys Zapata, are also athletes, and train in throwing events at the José Antonio Anzoátegui Stadium, which has fallen into disrepair.[4]

Career[]

2011–2015: Career beginnings[]

Rojas had her first competitive jumping success at the 2011 South American Junior Championships, where she won the high jump.[14][15] Due to this win, she received her first spike shoes, given to her by Marco Oviedo of the Venezuelan Athletics Federation (FVA) after Velásquez challenged the FVA to support her if she won.[7] She was then defeated at the 2012 championships, managing only fourth,[16] but performed better in higher-level competitions that year, jumping 1.75 m (5 ft 8+3⁄4 in) to take sixth at the Ibero-American Championships and claiming the bronze medal at the South American Under-23 Championships.[17]

In the 2013 season, she improved her personal best to 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) with a jump in Barquisimeto, taking the South American junior record.[18] She also registered a 6.17 m (20 ft 2+3⁄4 in) long jump and an 11.94 s 100 m.[9] This year she won two international silver medals, at the 2013 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships (losing to on countback) and the Bolivarian Games. At the Bolivarian Games she competed in the long jump for the first time, placing sixth.[19][20] Improving in her new event, she had a best of 6.23 m (20 ft 5+1⁄4 in) in long jump that year.[18]

Rojas then began regularly competing in both horizontal and vertical jump events from 2014. Starting with the South American Games in March, she claimed her first senior gold medal in the high jump.[21] An appearance in the horizontal jumps followed at the World Junior Championships, where she came 11th in the long jump and 17th overall in the triple jump.[18] The Pan American Sports Festival brought her her first gold medal in the long jump.[22] In recognition, she was chosen to lead the returning delegation back to Venezuela and was presented with a national flag by Tony Álvarez, the .[23] A long jump/triple jump double followed at the 2014 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, which included a championship record of 6.36 m (20 ft 10+1⁄4 in) in the former event.[24] At senior level, she narrowly missed out on medals in both disciplines at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, placing fourth in each.[25][26]

She said that she became more attracted to the triple jump in 2014, and convinced Velásquez to let her change discipline. Shortly thereafter, she took the Venezuelan under-20 record, achieving 13.65 m (44 ft 9+1⁄4 in). The FVA said that she was a promising natural athlete, noting her unique style of not taking a proper step and believing she could jump much further if taught proper technique.[9]

Rojas established herself as her country's best all-time jumper at the 2015 Venezuelan Championships, setting national records of 6.57 m (21 ft 6+1⁄2 in) and 14.17 m (46 ft 5+3⁄4 in) to win the long jump and triple jump events.[9] Aged 19, she won the triple jump title at the 2015 South American Championships, winning gold on her debut at the senior level.[27] She then took silver in the event at the 2015 Military World Games.

2016–present: Triple jump specialist[]

Rojas at the 2016 Rio Olympics

Since 2015, she has been coached by Cuban long jumper Iván Pedroso, to whom she sent a Facebook message after the social network's algorithm suggested she connect with him. Pedroso responded, saying he believed she had potential and inviting her to train with him in Spain.[8][28] She officially signed with FC Barcelona to their athletics division on 21 November 2016, with her official measurements listed as 192 cm and 72 kg. She said that she was proud to represent the club, which she had long supported, with the club saying that she is "without doubt the most honored international athlete the Club has ever had".[29]

Rojas won the silver medal in the triple jump at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games with a 14.98 m (49 ft 1+3⁄4 in), placing behind Colombian Caterine Ibargüen, who took the gold after a jump of 15.17 m (49 ft 9 in).[30] Rojas became the first Venezuelan woman to win an Olympic medal, doing so in the same event in which the nation had won their very first Olympic medal with Devonish's 1952 bronze.[31] The national reaction to her medal was overwhelming; Maduro boasted on television that the country was becoming a "sporting superpower" and fulfilling its 2008 promise of a "generation of gold", despite Rojas's silver being the highest accolade of their three medals.[32][7]

On 7 August 2017, Rojas won her first World Championship in the open air, winning against Ibargüen and becoming the first Venezuelan athlete in history to obtain a gold medal in the championships. In her fifth attempt, Rojas jumped 14.91 m (48 ft 11 in), 2 centimeters further than rival Ibargüen. She said that the win "came at both the best and the worst moment for Venezuela", hoping that having a world champion could bring comfort to Venezuela, which was in the midst of the 2017 Venezuelan protests.[10] She spent much of 2018 off due to injury, then returned to competing in 2019.[28]

Rojas landing a triple jump at the Paris Diamond League meet in 2019

In February 2020, she broke the women's indoor triple jump record at the Meeting Villa de Madrid as the last meet of the World Athletics Indoor Tour. On her fourth jump she broke her own South American record of 15.29 m (50 ft 1+3⁄4 in), then landed 15.43 m (50 ft 7+1⁄4 in) with her final jump. At the time, it broke her own absolute record and became the second-furthest of all female triple jumps.[33]

Despite jumping a world-lead long jump (wind assisted) in 2021, she only contested the triple jump at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[34] She was chosen to be a flagbearer for Venezuela at the opening ceremony,[35][36] but missed the parade.[37] On 1 August 2021, Rojas won the gold medal at Tokyo 2020. With her first jump, she set a new Olympic record of 15.41 m (50 ft 6+1⁄2 in), beating Françoise Mbango's 15.39 m (50 ft 5+3⁄4 in) record set at Beijing 2008; on her final attempt, she improved this to 15.67 m (51 ft 4+3⁄4 in) (5.86 m hop, 3.82 m skip, 5.99 m jump), also breaking the world record, which had previously been held by Inessa Kravets since 1995 (the year Rojas was born) with 15.50 m (50 ft 10 in). Rojas is Venezuela's first female Olympic gold medalist, and also Venezuela's first athletic gold and third gold medal overall.[38][39][40][3] The bronze medal in the event went to Ana Peleteiro, Rojas's training partner in Guadalajara also coached by Pedroso.[41]

Rojas started her 2022 season in the long jump, wanting to "make an impact in this event",[42] achieving a new indoor personal best and national record in February.[43] On March 2, she competed in the triple jump at the World Indoor Athletics Final in Madrid, where she landed a world-lead jump and the second-furthest female indoor triple jump (just short of her own record).[44][45]

Personal bests[]

  • 100 m – 11.94 s (2013)[46]
  • 4 × 100 m – 46.70 s (2013)[46]
  • High jump – 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) (2014)
  • Long jump – 6.88 m (22 ft 6+3⁄4 in) (2021)[a] NR
  • Indoor long jump – 6.81 m (22 ft 4 in) (2022)[43] NR
  • Triple jump – 15.67 m (51 ft 4+3⁄4 in) (2021) WR, OR
  • Indoor triple jump – 15.43 m (50 ft 7+1⁄4 in) (2020) WR

Records held[]

Personal life[]

Rojas is openly lesbian, and she is an LGBT+ activist.[8][51]

She has thanked late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez for promoting fitness in Venezuela, which allowed impoverished citizens like herself to get into sports.[52] After similarly praising Nicolás Maduro in a "forced" phone call following her success at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Rojas faced criticism in Venezuela.[53]

International competitions[]

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
2011 South American Junior Championships Medellín, Colombia 1st High jump 1.78 m
2012 Ibero-American Championships Barquisimeto, Venezuela 6th High jump 1.75 m
South American U23 Championships São Paulo, Brazil 3rd High jump 1.73 m
South American Youth Championships Mendoza, Argentina 4th High jump 1.68 m
2013 Pan American Junior Championships Lima, Peru 2nd High jump 1.76 m
Bolivarian Games Trujillo, Peru 2nd High jump 1.76 m
6th Long jump 5.87 m
2014 South American Games Santiago, Chile 1st High jump 1.79 m
World Junior Championships Eugene, United States 11th Long jump 5.81 m
17th Triple jump 12.99 m
Pan American Sports Festival Mexico City, Mexico 1st Long jump 6.53 m w
South American U23 Championships Montevideo, Uruguay 1st Long jump 6.36 m CR
1st Triple jump 13.35 m
Central American and Caribbean Games Veracruz, Mexico 4th Long jump 6.24 m
4th Triple jump 13.54 m
2015 South American Championships Lima, Peru 4th Long jump 6.20 m w (+2.4 m/s)
1st Triple jump 14.14 m w (+2.8 m/s)
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 1st Triple jump 14.41 m
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2nd Triple jump 14.98 m
2017 South American Championships Asunción, Paraguay 2nd Triple jump 14.36 m
World Championships London, United Kingdom 1st Triple jump 14.91 m
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 1st Triple jump 14.63 m
2019 Pan American Games Lima, Peru 1st Triple jump 15.11 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 1st Triple jump 15.37 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 1st Triple jump 15.67 m WR

Honors and awards[]

Rojas (center) at the "greatest athletes in the world" conference in 2019

Prior to the 2016 Olympics, due to her World Indoor Championships (Portland) win, Rojas was awarded the Venezuelan honor Order José Félix Ribas – First Class. This was conferred to her by Nicolás Maduro at Miraflores Palace on 23 March 2016, as shown in a 54-minute compulsory broadcast across Venezuela.[54][55]

There is a mural of Rojas, depicted jumping over Angel Falls, in Caracas,[56] and the Complejo deportivo Yulimar Rojas (Yulimar Rojas Sports Complex) in Barcelona, Venezuela, was named in her honor.[57] There is also a mural of Rojas and footballer Alexander Rondón at the Simón Bolívar Sports Complex, where she began training.[4]

In 2017 and 2019 she was named Latin American and the Caribbean's best sportswoman.[28] In December 2020, Rojas and Mondo Duplantis were named the World Athlete of the Year due to their record-breaking indoor jumps;[58] she was the first Venezuelan to receive the honor, and said that it "gives [her] a lot of motivation, a lot of strength for [her] to keep on track with [her] career."[59]

She was nominated for the 2022 Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year.[60]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This was achieved at the in La Nucia, Alicante, where Rojas represented FC Barcelona Athletics. In her other jumps, she achieved 7.27 m (23 ft 10 in) w (+2.7 m/s) and 7.06 m (23 ft 1+3⁄4 in) w (+2.9 m/s), which are not counted due to wind assistance.[34]

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Records
Preceded by Women's Triple Jump Indoor World Record Holder
21 February 2020 – present 		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's Triple Jump World Record Holder
1 August 2021 – present 		Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by Women's Track & Field Most Valuable Performer
2020 		Incumbent
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Venezuela
(with Antonio Díaz)
Tokyo 2020 		Succeeded by
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