Ionut Punga

Career

Originally a hurdler, he holds the European age record for the age of 15 with 14.73 over 110 metres hurdles. The next year Punga finished 5th at the World Indoor Championships.

Achievements

• He later switched to triple jump and won the 1998 World Junior Championships with a jump of 16.94 metres, only 10 centimetres behind the championship record set by Yoelbi Quesada in 1994. His personal best was 17.04 metres, which he achieved twice in June 1999.