Yulimar Rojas | Unscripted, by World Athletics

This is a series by World Athletics that highlights many exciting global athletes. Yulimar Rojas is the World Athletics gold champion in Doha 2019 and London 2017. In 2016 Olympics, Yulimar Rojas took the silver medal.

Yulimar Rojas, photo by panamsports.com

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Yulimar Rojas should be a multi eventer: She has Outdoor pbs at the 100m (11.94), HJ (1.87m), LJ (6.57m NR) and TJ (15.41), and Indoor PBs at LJ with 6.59m NR and TJ 15.43m WR, AR, NR.

Yulimar Rojas, photo by iaafworldathleticschamps.com

Yulimar Rojas also took gold at the World Indoor Champs in 2018 (Birmingham) and 2016 (Portland).

Yulimar Rojas is a wonderfully gifted athlete who shows her love with athletics with emotional displays after her big jumps!

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Double triple jump world champion Yulimar Rojas sits down in the latest episode of Unscripted. She talks identity, family and her impressive medal haul.

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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