This Canadian triple jumper has been training 18 years for this moment. She finally broke through last weekend

Caroline Ehrhardt soared over 14 metres and set the Canadian triple jump record by a single centimetre at a track and field meet last weekend in London, Ont. Ehrhardt is 31 years old and has been working toward a jump like this for 18 years. but definitely that 14-metre mark and establishing myself as the best Canadian female triple jumper ever, that has been huge,” she said. At 13, she was already focusing on triple jump, an event she calls “one giant rhythmic puzzle” that demands both explosiveness and “poetic patience.” In her Grade 10 statistics class, she did a project on the characteristics of elite triple jumpers. She set her goals high: to be Canada’s first female triple jumper to make it to the Olympics.