World high jump king and international idol Javier Sotomayor is celebrating the third decade of his still unmatched world record-breaking 2.45-meters leap over the high jump bar in Salamanca, Spain
At 55 years old, however, the lanky, unassuming Cuban athlete is now celebrating the third decade that his record-breaking 2.45-metres leap over the outdoor high jump bar in Salamanca, Spain, in 1993, remains unmatched.
Sotomayor first hurled himself to the world's top high jump spot in 1988, before beating this with a 2.44m spring in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the following year. "There was very strong competition between us at every stage," Sotomayor told Reuters in an interview. "They were the ones to blame for my jumping 2.45 metres."
"Today with 2.33 or 2.34 metres you are a gold medallist and a medallist in any competition, whether at the world or Olympic level," Sotomayor said.
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