United States' Christian Taylor lived up to his pre Championships tag by capturing the Boys Triple Jump with a World leading leap on Saturday.
With Cuban Ernesto Kindelán missing in action, Taylor, who entered the Championships with the second best distance, stamped his class on the event with some impressive jumping.
He was the only jumper to maintain a distance over 15 metres throughout the final, and in the end, his 15.98 metres on his last attempt, bettered the previous World leading mark of 15.84m, which was done by Kindelán last month.
Taylor, who also had impressive leaps of 15.64m and 15.59m, defeated the Russian pair of Aleksey Fedorov (15.59m) and Gennadiy Chudinov (15.54m), both doing personal best distances.
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