AREQUIPA, Peru – Cuban triple jumper Leyanis Perez placed second on Sunday in the twelfth stop of the Diamond League held in the city of Sielesia, Poland. The athlete reached the position by landing the spikes at a distance of 14.42 meters.
According to the state Latin PressThe event was dominated by the silver medallist at the 2024 Paris summer event, Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts, who stretched to 14.50, while third place went to Italian Dariya Derkack with 14.02.
Leyanis, world runner-up and fifth at the Olympic Games, was unable to maintain her unbeaten record in the League, after winning the meetings in Eugene (14.73), Stockholm (14.67) and Monaco (14.96).
Her compatriot Liadagmis Povea finished last with a poor time of 13.33 meters.
Pérez, champion at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile and world bronze medalist, has had an outstanding year.
At the beginning of last June, won the Bauhaus Galan Athletics Meeting in Stockholmthe seventh stop of the 2024 Diamond League, and positioned himself as the leader of the triple jump circuit with 16 points.
Earlier in March, at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, she had a jump of 14.90 metres, only surpassed by Thea Lafond, who jumped 15.01 metres, and was ahead of Spain’s Ana Peleteiro, who reached 14.75 metres. At that competition, the Cuban achieved her best time of the year with a jump of 14.90 metres, thus obtaining her first medal at the World Indoor Championships.
In addition, on June 23, Leyanis Pérez surpassed the 15-meter barrier at the international meeting in Guadalajara, Spain.
Pérez’s mark of 15.16 meters at the Fuente de la Niña stadium, above his lifetime record of 14.98, will not be approved because the wind of 2.3 meters per second is higher than permitted, reported Hit.
