High jumper Luis Enrique Zayas managed to put Cuba in its first World Championship final this Friday. athletics Oregon 2022, in USAafter signing a jump over 2.28 meters, a height that he had not exceeded this season.
Pan American Champion in Lime 2019 and of the world among juniors in 2016, seems to have left in the past his discreet performance in the last Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020and now showed an almost perfect job with sequence of 2.17-2.21 (one failure)-2.25 and 2.28 meters, according to a note published in the sports portal Hit.
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Luis Enrique Zayas CLASSIFIES for the High Jump final!!The Cuban did not need to meet the minimum required mark (2.30) because only 11 athletes exceeded 2.28, including him in his 1st attempt.
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Some uncertainty surrounded the performance of the best Cuban in the specialty at this time due to the constant injuries that have prevented him from repeating his best performances. Zayas arrived in that American city with a personal outdoor limit of 2.30 meters, while on the indoor track he had reached three centimeters above that mark.
To access the medal discussion, a minimum 2.30 meters had been set, but it was not necessary to reach that height when the dozen that jumped the 2.28 meters filled the places available for the medal fight.
Among the 29 jumpers who were measured on the mattresses of Hayward Field, in the city of Eugene, were the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and the Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim, both Olympic champions in Tokyo after the historic decision to share the maximum prize of that fair.
The European shared a group with Zayas, but he was close to finishing his World Cup foray because after failing in undemanding attempts, he needed three jumps to overcome the height that guaranteed him a place in the final.
Instead, Barshim passed through the trance unsurprisingly. After starting at 2.17 and giving up 2.21, he managed to pass without worries over 2.25 and 2.28 meters.
The final of the high jump in this World Cup will be held next Monday, and it will also include the Ukrainian Andriy Protsenko, the Canadian Django Lovett and the South Korean Sanghyeok Woo, others with a perfect sequence in this first phase.
Cuba has a great benchmark for high jump worldwide in Xavier Sotomayor, who, in addition to holding the long-standing world record of 2.45 meters, won the universal crowns of Stuttgart 1993 and Athens 1997, in addition to winning the silver medals in the Tokyo 1991 and Gothenburg 1995 editions.
