Spain’s Jordan Alejandro Diaz, 23, moved to third place all-time in the triple jump. He has an interesting link to Finland.
Joel Sippola,
Laura Arffman
11.6. 23:52•Updated 0:04
The European Championship in Rome unexpectedly saw one of the all-time men’s triple jump competitions. of Spain Jordan Alejandro Diaz rocked a whopping 18.18 result with his fifth.
It is the third longest streak of all time in the sport. The 23-year-old Diaz was only 11 centimeters away from the Briton by Jonathan Edwards 29 years old world record in the sport.
Diaz’s result can be considered one of the hardest results of these games.
The second best result of all time (18.21) was held by the USA Christian Taylor in the 2015 World Cup final.
The European Championship final was insane, because of the Cuban background Pedro Pablo Pichardo broke the Portuguese record of 18.04 with his second. Likewise, Diaz, eight years younger, who was born in Cuba, but later received Spanish citizenship, answered perfectly first in the fourth round (17.96).
He became the seventh triple jumper of all time to break the 18-meter mark.
– This is a really special day for me. So few jumpers have jumped 18 meters in this sport, so I’m really happy about this, Diaz commented to Urheilu through an interpreter.
The winning jump came in the last round. Diaz, who set the race record, broke his previous record during the race by 21 cents.
Pichardo’s 18.04 shares the all-time hardest second result in any race. Pichardo had crossed the ghost line of 18 meters the previous time nine years ago.
Master from Tampere
Diaz has been in the position of super talent for a long time. Six years ago, he charmed Tampere when he was only 17 years old.
The under-20 World Cup was organized in the city, where there was a lot of fun, among other things by Armand Duplantis, by Jakob Ingebrigtsen, by Tara Davis and Selemon Baregan such as current athletics greats.
Diaz, who competed in the event two years younger than the main age group of the event, those born in 1999, also took part in the men’s triple jump race. He won the triple jump championship in show style with a result of 17.11.