Besides being a top athlete , she is a vocal advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community in her own nation.
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Yulimar Rojas Rodrguez, commonly known as Yulimar Rojas, is a Venezuelan track and field athlete who holds the women’s triple jump global record with a height of 15.74 meters. As the Olympic, three-time World, and three-time World Indoor Champion, she is known as the “queen of the triple jump.” Besides being a top athlete , she is a vocal advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community in her own nation. She was also the first female athlete from Venezuela to get the Female Athlete of the Year award in the year 2020. She is the second woman from South America to be named Athlete of the Year. She is also regarded as the most dominant individual sport LGBTQIA+ athlete in the world currently.
Yulimar Rodriguez began competing in long jump, high jump, and triple jump events in 2014. With the South American Games in March 2014, she earned her first senior gold medal in the high jump. She allegedly became more interested in the triple jump in 2014. She then proceeded to rise to 13.65 m to break Venezuela’s under-20 record. At the 2015 Venezuelan Championships, she carried on to smash the national record with a best jump of 6.57 m, confirming her status as her nation’s greatest jumper of all time.
Iván Pedroso, a Cuban long jumper, has been her coach since 2015. She messaged him on Facebook after the social network’s algorithm suggested her to connect with him. In his reply, Pedroso expressed his admiration for her and extended an invitation for her to train in Spain with him. She then relocated to Guadalajara, Spain, where Pedroso is based, where she currently resides and trains. On November 21, 2016, she formally joined FC Barcelona’s athletics department. Based on Rojas’s and the club’s mutual interest in signing her, they pursued signing her.
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Venezuela track and field athlete Yulimar Rojas is presently single.
No, Yulimar Rojas don’t have a child.
Yulimar Rojas and Kenverlin Medina were in a relationship since 2021 but broke up few months ago. The couple removed each other’s pictures on Instagram, edited their bios and stopped following each other on the social platforms. Rojas seems to be currently single.
