Almost a year after conquering for Spain the Olympic title in Paris 2024, the Cuban tripler Jordan Díaz He returned to competitive stages with a jump that guaranteed the crown in the Nation Championship in which he had settled for some years.
The young man of only 24 years returned this Sunday from a wide period of inactivity product of an injury and barely needed to stretch up to 17.16 meters in his first attempt to ensure another trophy for his showcases, review The Spanish newspaper ACE.
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After that jump, registered at the Natalia Rodríguez stadium, in the city of Tarragona, Jordan decided not to force the physicist, taking into account that on the horizon the World Athletics Championship of Tokyo 2025 appears, planned in September.
“It has been a bit weird. I have not jumped throughout the season, or in training, and I was going with some uncertainty. I am happy to have made a relatively good brand. I would have liked to have made more jumps, but I had to listen to my body,” said the tripler, quoted by the middle.
“I started doing more specific training two or three weeks ago.17.16 meters is a good head brand and in view of Tokyo,” he added.
“I have already made a good brand and I have no need to do another competition. If I feel good, I will look at the calendar. If I do not see myself well, I will throw all the bullets in the World Cups,” he said in reference to the huge challenge that is coming.
At the beginning of last February, the nationalized Spanish announced that he resigned to participate in the usual season of surrounding competitions to fully recover from a knee injury that has been dragging for two years.
Since then the European championships (Appealoorn-Paísses low) and the World Cup (Nanjing-China) were lost, in addition to all the stops of this Diamond League held so far.
He was also absent from the European championship by country, when it was speculated that he would mark his return to the jump drawer.
Last year Jordan was ratified as one of the great jumpers of the moment by winning the European and Olympic titles, and many see him potential to become the new world recordist of the specialty.
In the old continent appointment, held in Rome, established a severe pulse with Pedro Pablo Pichardo, another Olympic champion (Tokyo 2020) Cuban who competes for Portugal, whom he defeated with an impressive stretch up to 18.18 meters, currently the third best historical brand of all time.
Then, in the Olympic Fair of Paris 2024 it rose to the top of the podium, escorted again by Pichardo and Andy Díaz, another fruit of the successful Cuban school of jumps, and which defended the colors of Italy there.
