Illegal wind rules out Tiffany Yue’s giant leap, but long jump record in reach, she says
- She jumps further than her Hong Kong record at meeting in Portugal, but it doesn’t count
- ‘I think there was something wrong with the wind measurement, but it is fine, my confidence to break the Hong Kong record is growing,’ she says
The 24-year-old on Sunday recorded a jump of 6.40 metres – 9cm further than her own official Hong Kong mark of 6.31 – with her third attempt at the XIII Meeting Vitor Tavares at Pista Municipal de Faro.
However, the wind speed for her effort exceeded the allowed maximum of +4.30 metres per second, which meant it was ineligible to enter the record books.
“I think there was something wrong with the wind measurement,” said Yue, who set her existing Hong Kong best at the 2019 World University Games in Italy.
“But it is fine – my confidence to break the Hong Kong record is growing.”
Yue jumped 6.10 metres on her second and fourth attempts with a legal wind reading. Her third jump of 6.40 proved good enough to win her the competition, but not claim the record she has set her sights on during her time in Europe.
