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| Personal information | |
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| Born | 10 March 1995 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Triple jump |
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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]
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]
