Irving Saladino

Irving Saladino ( born January 23, 1983 in Colon ) is a Panamanian athlete who was 2007 World Champion and 2008 Olympic champion in the long jump.

Life

At the Junior World Championships in 2002 Saladino did not reach the final battle in the long jump with 7.30 meters in tenth. 2003 in Barquisimeto in the South American Championships he won with 7.46 meters bronze. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he was in his qualifying group with 7.42 meters and a total of 18 36 of qualification. Mt 8,12 meters he could skip the first time in 2004, the eight meter mark. In 2005 he jumped wind -assisted 8.51 meters and 8.29 meters under normal wind conditions. At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005, he jumped at 2.8 m / s tailwind 8.20 meters and finished sixth.

In Moscow at the World Indoor Championships in 2006, he improved in qualifying and finals five times in the South American indoor record and won with 8.29 meters silver medal behind the Ghanaians Ignisious Gaisah with 8.30 meters and ahead of the Italian Andrew Howe with 8.19 meters. In the outdoor season, 2006, he won five out of six Golden League Sports Festivals and the World Cup.

In the outdoor season, 2007, he remained unbeaten up to the World Championships in Osaka. In the finals at the World Championships, he took with 8.46 meters in the third experiment, the sole lead ahead of defending champion Dwight Phillips. In the last test he surpassed Andrew Howe with 8.47 meters. Saladino was an improvement in his last attempt, the last jump of the competition, at 8.57 meters and was world champion. Saladino won the first gold medal for Panama at World Athletics Championships.

In August 2008, Saladino won gold in the long jump at the Olympic Games in Beijing. With 8.34 meters, he took over in the fourth attempt the lead ahead of Godfrey Mokoena Khotso and held the lead until the end of the competition. With this jump, he won the first gold medal for Panama in the Olympic Games and the first medal ever since the two bronze medals from Lloyd LaBeach 1948.

Then Saladino was not able to his success. At the 2009 World Championships, the World Indoor Championships in 2010, the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he jumped a valid attempt, he was parted from each qualifying.

Saladino is 1,76 m tall and weighs 70 kg.

Bests

2007 World Championships in Athletics 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships 2007 Pan American Games 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics 2005 World Championships in Athletics 2006 IAAF World Cup Godfrey Khotso Mokoena 2009 World Championships in Athletics 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Paiania Ellery Harding Clark Alvin Kraenzlein Albert Gutterson William Pettersson DeHart Hubbard Ed Gordon (athlete) Jesse Owens Willie Steele Jerome Biffle Greg Bell (athlete) Ralph Boston Lynn Davies Bob Beamon Randy Williams Arnie Robinson Lutz Dombrowski Carl Lewis Greg Rutherford Mike Powell (athlete)
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