And even though her best enemy, Colombian Caterine Ibarguen will not now be competing at the Charléty Stadium due to injury, Yulimar Rojas has every reason to set the competition alight. Of a lofty build (1.92m), the native of Caracas, who will be 24 in October, presents a very serious threat to the previous world record secured by Ukrainian athlete Inessa Kravets: 15.50m in 1995. “It’s something I really want”, she admitted to the CNN channel in Spanish after her victory in Peru. Prior to that, the Meeting Record, set by Tatyana Lebedeva back in 2003 at 15.12m, is a quite conceivable goal in the interim. Spectators in the grandstands around the jumping pit will likely be starstruck.
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Meeting de Paris