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Although she is training hard to emulate Omanyala in the 100 meter race category, Amutavi wishes to create a name for herself in the long-jump category.
Laventa Amutavi, the fiancee to Africa's fastest man Ferdinand Omanyala, has revealed that her ambition is to become a record-breaking long jumper in the not-too-distant future.
Amutavi decided to go fully professional after years of doing it part-time thanks in large part to her very supportive partner, who himself is making great strides in the 100m each day.
Although she is training hard to emulate him in the sprints, Amutavi wishes to create a name for herself in the long jump and set an example for the young generation coming through.
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“My passion is actually in the long jump but I know the long jump has a lot of things that I need to work on. I tried to kickstart my career in the long jump this year,” she told Radull Live.
Amutavi wishes to model her athletics career on 37-year-old American track and field athlete Tiana Bartoleter who specializes in the long jump and short sprinting events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and two-time World Champion.
“I want to become an athlete like Tiana Bartoleter. She was an American athlete who was very good both in the 100 meters and long jump. I see myself as a multi-talented athlete who can be good in both. The long jump would be my main career but I have the 100 meters as a backup," she added.
Kenya’s reputation in the world of track precedes, but not so much in the field events, with 2015 World Champion Julius Yego the only athlete to defy the odds to become a legendary javelin thrower.
Amutavi admits that the long jump is very complicated, but a three-week training session in France has helped elevate her career.
“Long jump is very complicated. When I went into it, I just thought it was about running and jumping, but it is much more complicated than that. Interestingly, the one man who supported my career talked to the long jump team in France when he went to the indoor games for exposure.
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I went for a three-week training camp and I met coaches there, saw how they trained, saw how they did it, and then came back because of an assignment in Nyayo and surprisingly, I jumped 5.44m, which is close to my personal best record of 5.45m.
We had a lady called Zeddy (Jesire) of the under-20 team who went there, came back, and has since jumped 6.2m this season," she said.
The current world record for women is 7.52m (24' 8.1") by Galina Chistyakova (URS) achieved in Leningrad in 1988. Amutavi aims at breaking it one day, as long as she can avoid injuries, having undergone an injury-hit season.
“It will take me up to eight years to break the record, but I will break it!”
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