Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki ( ar, ياسر تريكي; born 24 March 1997) is an Algerian athlete competing in the

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and

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. He won the silver medal in the long jump at the

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. He also won multiple medals at regional level. Triki has broken the Algerian record in triple jump several times and was the first Algerian to jump over 17 meters. Triki broke the Algerian record in the triple jump with 17.31 meters achieved in Algiers meeting on 4 June 2021, thus qualifying to the

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. In June 2021, he won the gold medals in both

and

at the 2021 Arab Athletics Championships held in Tunis with jumps of 7.96 meters and 17.26 meters, respectively. On July 7, 2021, he improved his national record with a jump of 17.33 meters during the

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Triki also improved the Algerian indoor record in triple jump several times. He first broke the existing record held by Lotfi Khaida set in Indianapolis in March 1992 with 16.49 meters before Triki broke this on 25 January 2019 in

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with a jump of 16.52. This record was improved on 11 February 2019 in Texas with 17.00 meters before a new record was set a few days later in Fayetteville (

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) on 23 February 2019 with a mark of 17.12 meters.

International competitions

¹Did not start in the final

Personal bests

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Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

– 8m08 (+0.2 m/s, Five Rings Sports Center,

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(CHN) 2019) *

Triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

– 17m43 (+1.0 m/s, Tokyo Olympic Stadium,

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(JPN, 5 August 2021, a national record) Indoor *

– 7.69 (College Station, Texas 2018) *

– 17.12 (Fayetteville, 23 February 2019, NR)

References

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