Without surprises and with some level marks, the first date of the Barrientos Memorial of athleticsin Havana, where the main figures of the female sector assumed the leading role, according to official media.
Liadagmis Povea, in the triple jump, and Roxana Gómez, in the 400 meters, as well as the discus throw Yaime Perez and the hurdler Greisy Robles, dominated their events with relative ease, with results that left several nuances, in accordance with the website Hit.
The medium specifies that the least comfortable of those triumphs was that of Povea, who from the second attempt nailed his spikes at 14.34 meters and although it seemed like a winning record, he always had the siege of the young Leyanis Pérez and Davisleidy Velazco.
Leyanis, champion of the past Junior Pan American Games from Cali, won the silver medal with 14.30 meters and also had three other attempts of more than 14 meters, and Davisleidy’s bronze came with a jump of 14.14 meters.
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In the disk, Yaimé led with 63.33 meters an event in which, according to Hit, her fight was with herself. She is one of the safe ones to travel in the summer to the world event in Eugene, United States, and only four weeks after her commitment, her public would have wanted to see her take the album a little further, considers the medium.
Melany Matheus (56.70) and Silinda Morales (55.97) were second on the podium, while in the women’s 100m hurdles Greisy Robles (13.04 seconds) won ahead of Keily Linet Pérez (13.28) .
For her part, the 400-meter Olympic finalist, Roxana Gómez, won without setbacks with a time of 51.86 seconds, escorted by the Mexican Paola Morán (52.40), the note points out.
In addition, Rose Mary Almanza dominated the 800 meters, with a time of 2:01.75 minutes, in a day in which the hosts Yumisleydis Mestre (35:09.21 minutes in the 10 thousand meters), Yuniabel Contreras (1:43.33 hours in the 20 km walk) and Yunisleidy García (personal record of 10.30 seconds in 100 meters).
Among men, Mexico exhibited the best results in the 400 meters, thanks to Luis Avilés (47.20 seconds), and in the 110 hurdles, through César Ramírez (13.84 seconds), who doubled his presence in the 100 meters, but was off the podium in a race in which Cuban favorite Shainer Reginfo took gold with a time of 10.17 seconds.
This Sunday the actions continued on the same stage, with the jump events (long and triple) for men as the main attraction.
In the long jump, the absence of the Olympic runner-up Juan Miguel Echevarría will be noted, who requested the withdrawal from the national team, as announced during the press conference prior to the contest.
Olympic runner-up of Cuban athletics requests withdrawal from the national team
Meanwhile, in the triple modality, all the favoritism now falls on Lázaro Martínez, fourth in the world ranking of the specialty behind three other Cubans who no longer represent athletics on the Island: the nationalized Spaniard Jordan Díaz, Andy Díaz, who competes for a club in Italy, and Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Olympic monarch who now represents Portugal, .
Precisely in that same order they ended this Saturday in the stop of the Diamond League held in Pariswhere Jordan stretched to 17.66 meters, Andy was one centimeter behind, and Pichardo closed his presentation with 17.49 meters, his best mark this season.
