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TALENTED TRIPLE JUMPER WANTS TO CONQUER THE WORLD, WRITES RUTH JONES
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NAOMI OGBETA
Naomi Ogbeta: on verge of a 13-metre triple jump after 12.98m outdoors and 12.99m indoors
MARK SHEARMAN
BREAKING age group records has become something of a habit for Trafford triple jumper Naomi Ogbeta, whose status as the UK’s all-time under-17 record-holder shows her promise to break through to the senior ranks.
The 18-year-old University of Manchester student can also lay claim to be the first British female triple jumper to compete at the IAAF World Youth Championships, when she qualified for her inaugural global event last year in Colombia. Naomi had to break the UK under-18 record to qualify and did so in style when she leaped to a 12.98m winning jump at the national under-20 championships at Bedford last June.
The talented youngster further improved that mark with a 12.99m leap indoors in Bratsilava, Slovakia earlier this year, cementing her position as the UK’s top triple jumper for the last three years in the under-17 and under-20 age groups.