Yulimar Rojas returns to the slopes after almost two years off after breaking the Achilles tendon

The Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, world queen of the triple jump, will return to the slopes after almost two years of low after breaking the Achilles tendon of the left leg in April last year last Sunday in the Athletics Tournament City of Salamanca (Spain) on covered track, but in the length jump test.

The Saltadora de Caracas has announced her return to the competition through her social networks after her long absence that, among other competitions, deprived him of doing so in the last Olympic Games of Paris 2024.

It will be done by the septuple world champion and once Olympic champion in the city where Cuban Javier Sotomayor beat the world record, still in force, of high jump with 2.45 meters, but this time will be on the covered track Carlos Gil Pérez, where his presence becomes the great attraction.

Yulimar Rojas was seriously injured in a training in April 2024 and did not compete since his third diamond league was awarded in September 2023. He will now check his status in the length test, in which he has not competed since July 21, 2023, in the Mónaco World Circuit test, where he achieved a brand of 6.61 meters, twenty centimeters less than his best brand, obtained on February 17 of 2022 at the Hauts-De-France Pas-de Calais meeting, although outdoors in 2021 it left to 6.88.

The Venezuelan will face athletes such as Carmen Rosales and Elise Veiga, champions of Spain and Portugal in length, respectively.

Yulimar Rojas counts in his extensive and successful palmraés with two Olympic medals, a gold in Tokyo 2020 where he established a world record with a jump of 15.67 meters, and one silver in Rio 2016, to which he adds three universal outdoor titles (London 2017, Doha 2019, Eugene 2022 and Budapest 2023) and three under the roof (Portland 2016, Portland 2016, Portland 2016, Birmingham 2018 and Belgrade 2022, where he sealed a world record with a 15.74 meters dall).

If you want to be in the World Cups on Nanjing covered track (China), Iván Pedroso’s pupil needs 6.90 to achieve the direct ticket but could enter by ranking if it is 6.70. EFE