Pichardo vs Taylor Triple Jump Rematch Eagerly Anticipated in Lausanne

Published by IAAF on July 8, 2015

The 40th edition of Lausanne’s famous Athletissima meeting, the ninth event in this season’s IAAF Diamond League, offers a welter of events featuring that priceless commodity within any sport – true competition.

A total of 10 reigning Olympic champions, seven world champions and nine European champions will converge on the Stade De La Pontaise on Thursday night. Among the most eagerly awaited confrontations will be the re-match between the two triple jumpers who reached historic heights – or rather, lengths – in the opening IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season in Doha, Cuba’s Pedro Pablo Pichardo and Olympic champion Christian Taylor.

No other triple jump competition had previously involved more than one man surpassing 18 metres, but the pair became only the fourth and fifth men in history to better that mark as Pichardo eventually triumphed with an IAAF Diamond League record of 18.06m, with his US rival just two centimetres behind.

Since then, Pichardo, who jumped 18.08m in Havana less than a fortnight after Doha, has established himself as a clear leader in the Diamond Race with victories in Rome and New York.