The cuban high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas, champion of the Lima 2019 Pan American Games, debuted this Tuesday with a silver medal in the indoor winter tour at the Nehvizdy athletic contest, in the Czech Republic.
Zayas entered the competition when the rod was 2.14 m, a height that he surpassed without difficulty on his first attempt. He then he did the same over respective 2.18 m and 2.22 m, as reported the digital site cubadebate.
However, he could not with the 2.25 m and after three consecutive failures he said goodbye to a discreet competition in a general sense, but that ultimately left him in second place shared with the Pole Norbert Kobielsky and the Mexican Erik Portillo.
Among his main results at the international level, Zayas exhibits fifth place in the 2019 Doha World Championship and sixth in Eugene, United States, in 2022.
Triple jumper Liadagmis Povea wins indoor athletics rally in Germany
For Cuba on the 27th, triplists Liadagmis Povea and Leyanis Pérez made it 1-2 at the athletics meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, with the gold category of the World Athletics Indoor Tour.
Occupying fifth place in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic event and third in the Lima 2019 multi-sports event, Povea jumped 14.64 m to defeat his compatriot and achieve his personal best indoor mark, surpassing the 14.54 m achieved in that same event. two years ago.
Champion at the I Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia, in 2021, and winner of the Ibero-American tournament last May in Alicante, Spain, Pérez came second with a record of 14.45 m, two centimeters (cm) from her lifetime mark in covered track.
