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- The young Tara Davis achieves the best long jump since the Doha World Cups with a jump of 7.30 meters.
- The brand represents a new university record that exceeds the record of the year 1985 de Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
- JuVaughn Harrison achieves most impressive height and length double on the same day
With a jump of 7.15 meters at the meeting Texas Relays en Austin, the American Tara Davis erased from the charts the university record for length that had been held for 36 years by Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
The mark obtained by Davis, 21, places the also hurdler in the 5th in longest jumps by American athletes of all time. In addition, it is the longest jump in a longitude competition since the final of the World Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019, when the German was imposed. Malaika Mihambo with a jump of 7.30 meters.
In the traditional Texas Relays meeting, Davis started the competition with two nulls, but in the third turn he already went to 6.97 meters, a record with which he surpassed both his mark in the open air (so far 6.73 meters) as his absolute personal record, achieved two weeks earlier in the university indoor championships with 6.93 meters. “I knew I had a full tank and after three jumps I knew that when you have six jumps you can go very far, “he explained when he met the brand.
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Its explosion occurred in the fourth round, with a favorable wind of one meter per second (the limit for homologation is 2.0). His jump of 7.15 meters improved by 16 centimeters the college record set by Joyner-Kersee in 1985. “Basically, this track is like my home and here (in Arkansas) I have always liked the race and the track so much that I knew I just had to go out, do my best and jump,” acknowledged the athlete after the new record.
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“It has been a long road of ups and downs with injuries and I finally made the leap that I was hoping for and that I prayed for“Tara Davis acknowledged after achieving the national university record.
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