Pedro Pichardo became world champion in triple jump The athlete jumped 17.95 meters on the first attempt.

Portugal’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo won the triple jump world title in Eugene, USA, flying 17.95 meters on his first attempt.

Pedro Pablo Pichardo added the world title to the gold medal won at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on August 5, 2021 with a first jump of 17.95 meters, the best world result of the year, followed by 17.92 meters. , second in 2022, 17.57, in a competition in which he abandoned his fourth attempt and scored 17.51 ​​after zero.

The 29-year-old Portuguese beat Burkina Faso’s Hugh Fabrice Zango, who won the bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 and Doha 2019 World Championships, and China’s Yamin Zhu, who won silver at the last Olympics, who, at 17.55 and 17.31, both with their best scores of the year, finishing second and third respectively.

Pichardo became the seventh Portuguese to win a world title in athletics, after Fernanda Ribeiro, Manuela Machado, Carla Sacramento, Ines Henriques, Rosa Mota and Nelson Évora, winning the first medal for Portugal in Eugene 2022 and adding this title to the lead ‘ranking’ in world and in the Diamond League 2021, after second places at the World Championships Moscow 2013 and Beijing 2015, still like a Cuban.

In Doha 2019, making his debut at the world championships as a Portuguese, the jumper from Benfica took fourth place.

Pichardo’s consecration, along with the medal ceremony for the men’s triple jump, is scheduled for 20:09 local time (04:09 Sunday in Lisbon), and the Portuguese anthem is played at Hayward Field in Eugene.