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“No one knows,” replied the king of the heights in a recent interview with the Reuters news agency.
“Now, on July 27, I celebrate 30 years as a record holder. I feel very happy, very proud after so many years to still have the glory of being the world record holder and always convinced that someone is going to beat him,” he said.
Sotomayor, 55 years old and born in the town of Limonar, Matanzas, is secretary of the Cuban Athletics Federation.
The lanky ex-athlete accumulates a sheet of brilliant results, including the gold medal in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and the silver medal in Sydney 2000, as well as outdoor world crowns in Stuttgart and indoor in Budapest.
In the capital of Hungary, in 1988, he achieved world primacy in indoor stadiums with 2.43 meters and a year later in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he jumped 2.44 meters outdoors before the 2.45-meter mark. that remains unchanged.
“I am celebrating 35 years as a world record holder, 2.43 meters in Budapest, but clarifying that it is 30 years since the absolute world record of 2.45 meters in Salamanca,” he said.
The three-time champion of the Pan American Games in Indianapolis 1987, Havana 1991 and Mar del Plata 1995 commented -as did many other of his colleagues- that records have been made to be broken.
“While the days and years go by and someone still doesn’t do it, I’m going to live with that pride, although I’m not going to stop living it when it happens that someone surpasses me,” he said at the Pan American stadium in the Cuban capital.
Sotomayor narrated that a few days before the world record he had the feeling that he could do it.
A week earlier, he said, he had a competition in London and jumped 2.40 meters.
He could not get higher because of the rain, he recalled.
The Cuban thanks his rivals at the time for the progression he had to achieve his feat.
The Swedish Patrik Sjöberg (2.42m), former world record holder, the Kazakh Igor Paklin (2.41) and the Americans Charles Austin (2.40) and Hollis Conway (2.39m), among others, were his great rivals.
“There was a very big competition between us in each of the scenarios. Today with 2.33 or 2.34 meters you are a gold medalist and surely a medalist in any competition, whether at the world or Olympic level. “They They were the culprits for me jumping 2.45 meters”, he said smiling.
Sotomayor recognized two figures who have endangered his primacy.
The Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshin, with a jump of 2.43 meters in Brussels, and the Ukrainian Bogdan Bondarenko with a stretch of 2.42 meters in New York.
Both jumps were in the already distant 2014.
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Norwegian woman and Nepalese Sherpa become world’s fastest to climb all 14 highest peaks.
A Norwegian woman and her Sherpa guide climbed Mount K2 in Pakistan on Thursday, her 14th highest mountain in just over three months, becoming the world’s fastest climbers to reach all peaks over 8,000 meters (26,246 feet). in the shortest time, an official from its Nepali organizing company reported.
Kristin Harila, 37, and Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa from Nepal, 35, climbed K2, which is the second highest in the world at 8,611 meters (28,251 feet) with eight other guides.
This was reported by Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, CEO of Seven Summit Treks (SST) company that provides logistics to climbers, said in Kathmandu.
“They have become the fastest to climb all 14 peaks,” Tashi told Reuters, citing information from the base camp.
Climbing the 14 highest peaks in just a few months is a challenging feat, normally accomplished by many climbers in years.
They set the record for fastest climb by beating Nepal’s Nirmal Purja, who completed all the peaks in six months and one week in 2019.
But his latest feat, also confirmed by other climbers on the mountain, has yet to be confirmed by the Guinness Book of the World.
Both climbers crested Shishapangma in China’s Tibet region on April 26 and have since scaled Everest, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu and Annapurna in Nepal before heading to Pakistan, where they scaled Nanga. Parbat, the Gasherbrum I and the Gasherbrum. II and Broad Peak before overcoming K2, completing all 14 in 92 days.
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