TopFrog
Lifelong Frog
The Standard: Mapaya soars to new TCU record
BY DANIEL NHAKANISO
ZIMBABWEAN track and field star Chengetayi Mapaya enhanced his growing status as one of the world’s emerging top triple jumpers after storming into the top 10 of the world’s leading indoor jumps this season following a superb display at the Texas Tech Shootout in the US on Friday.
The 20-year-old student athlete, who is on a track and field scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU), finished second in Lubbock, Texas, with a monster jump of 16,65m, the fourth best indoor US collegiate jump this season and the ninth on the list of the world’s leading jumps this year.
Mapaya’s leap on Friday also saw him breaking his American teammate Scotty Newton’s TCU indoor record of 16,63m from last year’s Big 12 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Read more at https://www.thestandard.co.zw/2019/02/11/mapaya-soars-new-tcu-record/
