Marcos Ruiz (triple jumper)
Spanish triple jumper (born 1995)
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Marcos Ruiz Perez (born 10 March 1995) is a Spanish triple jumper. He became Spanish indoor national champion in 2025. He has competed for Spain at major championships, including the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
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| Born | 10 March 1995 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Triple jump |
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Career
He is from La Pobla de Vallbona, in the Valencian Community.[2][3] He competed as an FC Barcelona athlete, and set a new personal best of 16.44 metres for the triple jump whilst competing in June 2017, the first time he had surpassed 16 metres.[4][5] He qualified for the final of the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany where he finished tenth overall with a jump of 16.44 metres.[6]
Over the next few years he was beset by injury and struggled to piece together a six-month period where he stayed problem-free prior to 2022.[5] By then, he had switched to be coached by Antonio Corgos at Centro Alto Rendimiento de Sant Cugat (CAR) in Sant Cugat del Vallès. He set a new personal best, and Catalan record, of 16.85 metres in May 2022.[7][8] Later that month, he improved it to 16.94 metres in winning the silver medal at the 2022 Ibero-American Championships in La Nucia, behind the Cuban jumper Lázaro Martínez.[9] He finished fifth in the triple jump at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany in August 2022 with a jump of 16.78 metres, where he was helped in his box by Ivan Pedroso.[10][11][5]
He won the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025, in Madrid, with a jump of 16.78 metres.[12] He was selected for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, where he finished twelfth overall with a jump of 16.20 metres.[13][14]