Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, London 2012 Olympic runner-up, will today be one of the cheerleaders at the athletics rally in l’Eure (Val de Reuil), in France, in her third indoor competition of the year.
Silva, world champion on the indoor track in Sopot, Poland, in 2014, and outdoors in Beijing, China, in 2015, on February 3, he placed third at the Czech Indoor Gala in the Czech Republic, where he achieved mark of 4.51 meters (m).
In what was at that time her second presentation in the current winter season, the Cuban pole vaulter was one centimeter below what she achieved on January 29 on French soil, at the Nevers del Perche Elite Tour pole vault stop , a fight in which he finished in second place.
Returning to what happened in Czech territory, in a rally with a silver category, belonging to the World Athletics Indoor Tour, the athlete from the province of Pinar del Río continued in the avant-garde trio “warming up engines” for her next contests this month.
Ahead of her were Iryna Zhuk (4.71m) from Belarus and Tina Sutej (4.61m) from Slovenia, winners of the gold and silver medals, respectively.
In the case of Silva, after competing in the l’Eure rally (Val de Reuil), he will be present at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais rally (Lievin), also on Gallic soil, on the 17th, and must also attend the meeting in Birmingham, Great Britain, on the 19th.