Tokyo.- On the fast track, without wear and with a new look: Yulimar Rojas He reappeared after his injury by transmitting good feelings, with a quiet pass to the final of triple jump of the World This Tuesday in Tokyo.
The 29 -year -old Venezuelan star, who had not competed for two years in her reference test for the serious injury to the Achilles tendon of April 2024, reached 14.49 meters in her first attempt of the classification round, exceeding the automatic distance of entry into the final (14.35 meters) on Thursday.
When he met the distance, Rojas made a dance of joy, threw kisses to the stands and smiled relieved by the success of his reappearance.
“The wait has been long. For me, for my people, for you the journalists and for world athletics, which was waiting for me for a long time. I am here, my people! Now to enjoy and I hope you see me in the final because I go with everything,” he told his time in the mixed area.
On Thursday, Rojas will aspire to an unprecedented fifth world title followed in the triple jump and, above all, to show that he is physically back and recovered after his particular desert journey.
Two years without triple
Exactly two years ago, since September 16, 2023, that the Venezuelan star did not compete in the triple jump.
Then it was to win the final of the Diamond League in Eugene (United States) and culminate a season in which he had achieved his fourth world title a few weeks earlier in Budapest.
He couldn’t even imagine what 2024, a year where everything collapsed for her when she was injured in the Achilles tendon of the left leg and had to go through the operating room, which prevented her from defending the Olympic title in Paris 2024.
This year 2025 had only competed once, but in a long jump, in a small meeting in Salamanca (Spain) where he made three null.
The recovery had “enough ups and downs,” said Reds herself in an interview with the AFP last week and the wait lasted until Tuesday, with the expected return of the worldwide triple jump worldwide jump (15.74 meters).
“I have had to have a lot of patience. It is difficult to enter an injury as difficult as mine and get out of it. You have to be strong head and heart, in that I have become stronger. You have to be patient because patience is a virtue,” Rojas admitted, who for his reappearance chose a new appearance, with some extensions of blond dye braids.
Leyanis and Povea, also forward
The Cuban Leyanis Pérez (23 years old), who last March happened to Rojas as a world -world champion, also qualified without complications for the end of Thursday, reaching 14.66 meters in his first attempt, which already served to meet the mission.
“It was what came, that it was to make a single leap. My mission in the final will be to keep a world medal. The sensations have been very good, I have felt super good,” he told AFP at the end of his participation this Tuesday.
Leyanis Pérez, bronze in the last World Cup, arrives in Tokyo 2025 as the one that has come this season, with 14.93 meters.
It was also classified without delay, in the first attempt, the Cuban Liadagmis Povea (14.44 meters), a worldwide runner -up behind Pérez in March.
In the overall of the qualifying round, Pérez was the one that came farther, followed by Rojas, second, and Povea, third.
