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JAVIER SOTOMAYOR |
Javier Sotomayor was born on 13 October 1967 in Salamanca, Spain
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Javier Sotomayor was barely 15 years old when he first flew over the 2-meter limit. That slender mulatto, born on October 13th, 1967, in the town of Limonar (about 20 km away from the city of Matanzas) was cut out for high jumping, and his talent for that was discovered by the sports activist Carmelo Benםtez.
His ascension to glory was astonishing and it had a lot to do with the hard work of his first trainer Josי Godoy and later Guillermo de la Torre.
Being 6'5'' tall and weighing 178 pounds, he started over at the age of 13 and only jumped up to the 1.65 m, but he was 5'' shorter then.
Javier Sotomayor really astonished every one when, at the age of 19, Javier Sotomayor established a junior world record of 2.36. Many considered him the most stable jumper and they were right because along his career he jumped over the 2.40 m limit 22 times.
His first absolute world record (2.43 m) was established in Salamanca, Spain, on September 8th, 1988. The 2.44 m record was set the following year in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but in 1993 he would reach, again in Salamanca, the 2.45 m, a world record that remains still untouched. |
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