BARCELONA.- The Venezuelan Yulimar RojasWorld Triple Salto Plusmarquista (15.74 meters), renewed for two more seasons, until December 2026, with the Athletics section of FC Barcelona, the Catalan club reported this Friday.
“It will reach a decade dressed in Barca, after arriving at the club in November 2016,” Barça recalled in his statement.
The announcement of the renovation was the beginning of an important weekend for the 29 -year -old jumper, which on Sunday plans to reappear in competition, in the long jump of a meeting on the track covered in Salamanca (Spain).
It will be the first time that Rojas competes in a year and a half, since the closing of the 2023 season. He had high expectations in 2024, but in April of that year an Achilles tendon broke and had to give up the defense in Paris 2024 of the Olympic Triple Salto title he had achieved in Tokyo in 2021.
In the competition in Salamanca, Rojas will be defending the colors of Barcelona, the club said in its statement.
“The Venezuelan will reappear in the discipline of long jump and not in their triple jumping star discipline, to which it will gradually return. The test in Salamanca can carry the ticket for the Indoor World Cup in Nankín for the athlete of this March of this March,” said FC Barcelona.
The great objective of Rojas this year will be to be able to revalidate its world -trip outdoor jump title, in Tokyo in September, and feel competitive again after having dominated with authority its discipline in the years prior to its serious injury.
From its hatching in the elite, Rojas resides in Spain and is exercised with the mythical Cuban former Iván Pedroso in Guadalajara (Spain), along with other high -level athletes of the triple jump and the long jump.
Outstanding resume
In the Palmares de Rojas, in addition to the world record and the Olympic gold in Tokyo 2020, they stand out in the Triple Jump the Olympic Silver of Rio de Janeiro 2016, four Outdoor World Oros (2017, 2019, 2022, 2023) and three World Cups on the covered track (2016, 2018, 2022).
