The world title of Leyanis Pérez in the triple jump of the appointment of the world that is held in Tokyo monopolized the headlines this Thursday, but other Cuban women also left historical notes in the Japanese capital, where two national records were broken at the field summit and track event.
If Cuban athletes have always been required to make their best brands in great events, now there is not much space for such claims after the performances of Roxana Gómez, Dayli Cooper or Anisleidis Ochoa, who ran to all gas and destroyed their personal records under the brilliant World Cups.
Roxana, Olympic finalist in Tokyo four years ago, had a day to frame and culminated sixth in the career of the 400 flat meters. The Cienfueguera stopped the chronometers in 49.48 seconds and established national record in the return to the oval, destroying the previous plusmarca (49.61), in the possession of Ana Fidelia Quirot from the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana 1991.
With a firm stride and a very stable rhythm, Roxana was devouring meters and competed to the last meters for the fourth place against the Polish Natalia Bukowieckka (49.27) and the British Amber Anning (49.36), who signed their best records of the season. This was a separate race within the grand final, in which three “aliens” played the title and the possibility of breaking the world record.
The American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Dominican Marisleidi Paulino and Bahrainí Salwa Eid Naser arrived with great ambitions and did not disappoint. The northern took the honors with a spectacular record of 47.78, the second best in history, only exceeded by the 47.60 of the German Marita Koch almost 40 years ago.
McLaughlin-Levrone, a 400 world winner with fences, met the expectations in this exclusive presentation in the return to the oval, which resulted in a confrontation of maximum caliber with Paulino and Naser, medalists of the orb and Olympics just in this modality.
In the end, the American enforced her power and spectacular step to take gold with very little advantage over Paulino, who now showed that devilish shot in which she has worked so much with her coach, the Cuban Yassen Pérez. The Dominican did not surrender and signed a national record for her country (47.98) after struggling in La Plata, ahead of Naser, who achieved her best performance (48.19) of this course.
The brands of McLaughlin-Levrone and Paulino qualify as the second and third in the history of the test, ahead of 47.99 that the Czechoslovaca Jarmila Kratochvílová stamped in the Helsinki World Cup in 1983. The final of this 2025 qualifies as the toughest in the return to the oval, since all the runners lowered 50 seconds, something that had never happened in 19 Orb quotes.
After the race, Roxana Gómez now has the best Cuban results in the return to oval, and not only for his national record. Of the five top brands in the history of the test, three belong to La Sureña, the only athlete on the island that has dropped from the 50 seconds in the 400 planes with Ana Fidelia.
More female power
Other Cuban women were also protagonists this Thursday at the World Athletics. Dayli Cooper got the second best chrono among the 57 runners who participated in the 800 meters qualifiers, implementing a new personal record.
The 22 -year -old girl made a very intelligent race, floating most of the time in the middle of the platoon and reserving forces for the final stampede. Just at the time of truth, he proved to have strength and finished off the line to displace most of his rivals, except the Kenyana Lilian Odira, leader of the Heat with a chrono of 1: 57.86 minutes.
Cooper was second with time of 1: 58.16, exceeding his previous personal level (1: 58.39), achieved in the Olympic Games of Paris 2024. This year he had run a couple of times below two minutes, but again he has achieved his best performance in the most important event.
As satisfied, the fondista Anisleidis Ochoa, the first Cuban woman who competes in the 5000 meters in a world championship would also have to be given. Although he ended up penultimate from his Heat and failed to move around, the long breath broker improved in more than 20 seconds his personal brand.
Ochoa imposed national record with time of 15: 31.35 minutes, destroying his previous level (15: 55.20), imposed in the Barrientos Memorial of Havana in May of last year.
Finally, Dacsy Brison was out of the end of the height jump with a 1.88 -meter brand, but became the first Cuban woman in this test from the IMANET QUINTERO World Cup participation in 1995, 30 years ago, according to the report of the Specialized Site Deportcuba.
