Jordan Díaz jumps this Saturday at 17.30 at the meeting in Jaén.RFEA
The athlete of Cuban origin and Spanish nationalized Jordan Díaz this Saturday at the meeting in Jaén reached a mark of 17.30 meters in the triple jump, a record in Spain, the second best world record of the year and the best in Europe. And he did it twice. After 17.07 in the first attempt, he reached 17.30 in the second and third. In February, he broke the record in Salamanca on the indoor track at 5:27 p.m. This season only Cuban Andy Díaz tops him in the world rankings with his 17.64.
Díaz (Havana, 21 years old), already jumping 17 meters at the age of 16, left the Cuban team preparing the Tokyo Games in Europe in July 2021 and stayed to live in Guadalajara, where he met the Spanish obtained citizenship. “The sports system is very complicated there [en Cuba]. They force competitive athletes to rush. I saw that my results were worthless. There is a time when the athlete needs a stimulus that a person like me at the level I am has not received. And I felt down. I made the decision [de quedarse en España] And I knew it was for the best And when my parents gave me their blessing, they told me: “You have to go, you have to go if you want to be great,” he said in an interview in EL PAÍS published this Saturday.
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And in Guadalajara his coach is Ivan Pedroso. “He’s a super athlete and a super human. It was my plan, which I had already drawn up, to come and train with him. We have a great team. I thank Iván for welcoming me here as his athlete,” said Díaz, who admits that his training routine has completely changed. “This is where I jump the least. Violence is always used in Cuba. Here I run more, that’s the deficit I had. What concerns me are the deficits that I had in Cuba. There he did not run as such. My speed has improved, my running technique so that the jump goes well,” emphasized the athlete, who took another step in his career this Saturday.
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