Yulimar Rojas — queen of the triple jump — sets her sights long

Where no woman has gone before: Rojas wants to leap 16m and believes she is close to achieving the goal, which will be a defining moment for the triple jump.

New ambition: Rojas is keen on winning a major title in the long jump and adding to her supremely impressive resume in the hop, step and jump.

Yulimar Rojas at an athletics stadium is a spectacle to behold — and that is even before she takes flight. As she gets the crowd going at the start of her run-up, a striking 6’4” lean-muscled super athlete, the possibilities appear endless. Once she explodes off her hop and step, and gets airborne, she looks like something out of a kinetically drawn panel in a comic book.