 Guerra in 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jaime Guerra Alejandre |
| Born | 30 October 1999 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Long jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Long jump: 8.17m (2024) |
Jaime Guerra Alejandre (born 30 October 1999) is a Spanish long jumper. He is a multiple-time Spanish national champion and also won the national triple jump title in 2019. He competed for Spain at the 2023 World Athletics Championships. [1]
He is from Sant Boi de Llobregat in Catalonia. He is coached María Durán and is a member of Cornellà Atlètic. [2] [3] [4] He became Spanish national champion in the triple jump in 2019, jumping 16.65 metres in La Nucia. [5]
He set a personal best in the long jump of 8.08 metres in 2022. [4] He won the Spanish national indoor title in March 2023. [6] He became Spanish long jump champion in 2023, and again reached a distance of 8.08 metres. [7] He finished in sixth place overall at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul. [8] He won the Spanish Athletics Championships long jump title in July 2023. [9] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, without reaching the final. [10]
His 2024 season was dominated by injury which required surgery. However, he did manage to retain his national title at the 2024 Spanish Athletics Championships, with a personal best 8.17 metres in La Nucia in June 2024. [11] [2]
He won the long jump at the 2025 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships in February 2025, with a jump of 8.14 metres. [12] He finished fifth in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in March 2025, with a jump of 8.06 metres. [13] Unfortunately, he also suffered a left hamstring injury during the competition that caused him to leave the arena on a stretcher. [14]
In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing twelfth overall. [15] [16]
