What is Yulimar Rojas?
[[File:Yulimar Rojas - Triple saut Femmes (48614911652) (cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Yulimar Andrea Rojas Rodríguez''' (also known as '''Yolimar Rojas'''; born 21 October 1995) is a Venezuelan [[Sport of athletics|athlete]]. She was born in [[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]]. She holds the [[Triple jump world record progression#Women|women's triple jump world records]]: her personal best of 15.67{{nbsp}}m, the world record, was set in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]], on 1 August 2021.<ref>{{cite web|date=2021-08-01|title=Athletics - Final Results|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-triple-jump-fnl-000100-.htm|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-01|website=Olympics|archive-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801120706/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/result-women-s-triple-jump-fnl-000100-.htm}}</ref> Rojas won an Olympic gold medal at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] and a silver medal at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]. She also holds the indoor world record of 15.43{{nbsp}}m, which she set in Madrid, [[Spain]], on 22 February 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/indoor-tour-madrid-2020-world-record-triple-j|title=Rojas breaks world indoor triple jump record in Madrid with 15.43m &#124; REPORT &#124; World Athletics|access-date=2021-08-01|archive-date=2020-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222145141/https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/indoor-tour-madrid-2020-world-record-triple-j|url-status=live}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rojas, Yulimar}} [[Category:1995 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Triple jumpers]] [[Category:High jumpers]] [[Category:Venezuelan athletes]] [[Category:Olympians for Venezuela]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists]] [[Category:Olympic silver medalists]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Caracas]] {{sports-bio-stub}}