Cuban tripler Andy Díaz, who currently represents Italy, ended this Saturday in second place in the rally athletics under the roof of the city of Metz, in Francewith silver category at the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2025.
Andy finished the competition with a better jump of 17.31 meters, the most outstanding in his incipient passage through the winter season. However, that was not enough to overcome the winner, the German Max HESS, who stretched up to 17.41 -march leader of the year -according to the results published on the contest website.
We see you, Max!
1️⃣7️⃣.4️⃣1️⃣M in the Sixth Round of the Triple Jump in Metz!
✅ World Triple Jump Lead
✅ Second Best Jump of His Career #Worldindortour pic.twitter.com/reufj5xutg– European Athletics (@eurathletics) February 8, 2025
The Havana, bronze medalist at the Olympic Games of Paris 2024, dominated the competition until the last round thanks to the loot of his second attempt, when he stretched up to 17.09 meters.
Then he sealed with a Foul the only jump he executed in the next three rounds. And although he improved in the end with the jump that assured him on the podium, he was short of what was achieved by the German, until that moment unable to exceed 17 meters.
The third place corresponded to the local Melvin Raffin, after taking his best jump from the campaign to 16.71 meters. So far the Cuban failed to arrive Lázaro Martínez (16,62), representative of the island Federation.
The Guantanamero, runner -up at the 2023 Budapest World Cup, remained this time far from his best performances. Even, of which he guaranteed a few days ago the first place with a 17.03 meters mark on the Val-de-Reuil roof racing, also on French soil.
TRIPLISTA Lázaro Martínez Successful premiere firm in the winter season
The struggle between Cubans to lead the triple jump worldwide, as happened in the most recent Olympic contest, could be repeated in the coming universal appointment under Nanjing’s roof, although with the confirmed absence of the Spanish nationalized and champion of Paris 2024, Jordan Díaz Diaz , who canceled his presentations During winter.
The presence in the Chinese fair of the now Portuguese Pedro Pablo Pichardo, headline under the five rings in Tokyo 2020, and protagonist of agrio pulses with Jordan during the European Championship of Rome 2024 and in the Parisian appointment.
