World Record and Gold Medal at the Para Athletics World Championships

Luca Ekler won the gold medal in the long jump T38 at the Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi on Wednesday with a world record of 591 centimeters.

The two-time Paralympic champion (2021, 2024) broke her own record, that had stood at 582 centimeters since June 10, 2022, on her second attempt.

She jumped four centimeters further than the record in Paris and even surpassed this mark by five centimeters in the fifth series, ultimately triumphing with a jump of 591 centimeters.

Behind the 26-year-old athlete, two Colombian competitors took second and third place with jumps of 542 and 525 centimeters, respectively.

Luca Ekler, who finished fourth in the 100-meter race two days ago, won this discipline for the fourth time in a row after Dubai 2019, Paris 2023, and last year’s World Championships in Kobe, Japan.

In an interview in 2023, the Para athlete said that sport had always been an important part of her life, as she grew up with her three brothers, two of whom went on to play water polo at the highest level in Hungary. Her brothers Bendegúz and Zsombor played for the Hungarian youth national team. Bendegúz won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Aquatics U18 Youth World Championships.

The Hungarian Paralympic champion was a promising tennis player before suffering a stroke at the age of 10, which left her paralyzed on the left side of her body. Luca Ekler saw para sports for the first time at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London. Four years later, the 24-year-old athlete won the gold medal in the women’s T38 long jump at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. She teaches a para athletics course at a university in the hope that others will be able to discover para sports earlier in life than she did.

Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Illyés Tibor

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