The triple jump indoor world champion, Lazaro Martinez, contributed this Saturday the second Cuban title in the Ibero-American Athletics Championship Alicante 2022, in Spainwith an unattainable jump of 17.30 meters, according to official media reports on the Island.
With this record, the 24-year-old from Guantanamo set a record for the competition, surpassing the 17.28 meters established by fellow Cuban Alexis Copello in 201. He also set a new top for the ranking of the triple jump of the current season athletics outdoors, according to note published by the specialized site Hit.
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?Lazaro MARTINEZ 17.30 RC
? Marcos RUIZ ?? 16.94 (ESP Leader of the Year)
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Lázaro, who had already jumped 17.64 meters when he took over the world title in Belgrade a few months ago, began his most recent performance with a foulthen stretched to 16.35 meters, and on the third attempt he registered the winning mark, the media reports.
The Spanish Marcos Ruiz kept the silver medal thanks to his personal best of 16.97 meters, and the Portuguese Tiago Luis Pereira completed the podium with a record of 16.71 meters, adds the publication.
The cuban athletics garnered another medal on the day through Roxana Gómez, who entered third at the 400-meter finish line, with a time of 51.03 seconds that became the best of her season, he notes Hit.
In this specialty, the gold was in the hands of the Dominican and Olympic silver medalist Marisleidy Paulino, with a new record for the event of 49.49 seconds, thus improving the level that since 1998 had been held by the Mexican Ana Gabriela Guevara (50.65). . The silver was this time for the also Dominican Fiordaliza Cofil, with a personal record of 50.64.
aim Hit that, although she completed the best time of her season, the 55.68 seconds with which the Cuban Zurian Hechavarría completed the 400 meter hurdles was not enough for her to get on the podium, and she finished fourth. The prizes went to the Colombian Melissa González (54.87 seconds), the Spanish Sara Gallego (55.56) and the Puerto Rican Grace Juliette Claxton (55.66).
This Saturday the Cuban Shainer Reginfo achieved the pass to the final of the 200 meters between men, by entering second in his heat semifinal, with time 21.03 seconds. The medium recalls that the sprinter from Pinero won the 100 meters this Friday, starring in an excellent debut on European tracks competing in the highest category.
Cuba wins first medals in the Ibero-American Athletics Championship
At the end of the championship, set for this Sunday, Cuba will have chances of winning titles with its discus throwers and triple jumpers. Among the first, the world champion and Olympic bronze medalist, Yaimé Pérez, starts as the great favorite, and in addition to the crown, she could erase the old record for these contests of 67.46 meters, which since 1992 has been exhibited by her current coach Hilda Elisa Ramos, notes the post.
The discus thrower Silinda Morales will also come into action, and Jit affirms that the triple test could leave a gold and silver harvest with Liadagmis Povea and Leyanis Pérez, since both arrive with enough background to achieve it.
