Jordan Díaz (triple jumper)
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| Full name | Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 23 February 2001 Havana, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Triple jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | FC Barcelona Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Triple jump: 18.18 m High jump: 1.85 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún (born 23 February 2001) is a Cuban-born Spanish triple jumper. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, he won a gold medal with a jump of 17.86 m.
Career
[edit]He won the gold medal at the 2017 World Youth Championships, the 2018 World U20 Championships, the 2018 NACAC Championships, the silver medal at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games and won the gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games in 2018.[1]
His personal best jump is 18.18 metres, achieved in June 2024.[1] At the 2017 World Youth Championships he jumped 17.30 metres, a new championship record and world under-18 best mark, improving it further in 2018.
On 28 June 2021, he defected from the Cuban delegation sent to a preparatory competition in Castellón, Spain.[2] He thus missed the Tokyo Olympics.[3] He began to train under Iván Pedroso in Guadalajara.[2] Shortly after acquiring Spanish citizenship in 2022, Díaz beat the country's triple jump record.[4]
World Athletics declared Díaz eligible to represent Spain starting on 7 June 2024,[5] just in time to compete in the 2024 European Athletics Championships, where he won gold with a best jump of 18.18 m which put him third in the world all-time list.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Jordan Alejandro DÍAZ FORTUN". worldathletics.org.
- ^ a b "Jordan Díaz, la gran promesa mundial afincada en Guadalajara, ya es español". El Digital Castilla-La Mancha. 2 February 2022 – via El Español.
- ^ Pacheco, Jorge (3 February 2022). "Jordan Díaz, la gran promesa del atletismo que se escondió en Zaragoza y España ha nacionalizado". El Español.
- ^ Arribas, Carlos (20 February 2022). "El atleta recién nacionalizado Jordan Díaz bate el récord de España de triple salto". El País.
- ^ "Eligibility & Transfers of Allegiance - 2024" (PDF). World Athletics. 5 April 2024.
- ^ "Diaz Fortun unleashes massive gold medal winning triple jump to go third on world all-time list". European Athletics. 11 June 2024.
External links
[edit]- Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortun at World Athletics
- Jordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun at Olympics.com
- Jordan Alejandro Diaz Fortun at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Jordan Alejandro Díaz at RFEA (in Spanish)
- Jordan Díaz at Olympedia
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World U20 Champions in men's triple jump | |
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- 2001 births
- Living people
- Cuban male triple jumpers
- Spanish male triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics U20 Championships winners
- Youth Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
- World Youth Championships in Athletics winners
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Youth Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Defecting sportspeople from Cuba
- People of Afro–Cuban descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Spain
- Olympic gold medalists for Spain
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen