The triple jumper Leyanis Pérez will be the great revelation of Cuban sport in 2023. The 21-year-old young jumper once again destroyed her personal best this Thursday at the fifth stop of the Diamond League in Oslo, Norway, where she overshadowed the Yulimar Rojas herself, Olympic champion and triple world monarch.
Pérez stretched to 14.87 meters in the triple test held at the Bislett Stadion in the Norwegian capital. The Cuban had an excellent sequence of jumps: 14.70-14.54-14-54-14.79-14.62, convincing proof that he is going through a spectacular moment of form.
His top jump earned him the second place in the competition, very close to the very stellar Yulimar, who reigned with 14.91. The Venezuelan committed a couple of fouls and he left another three consistent marks (14.86-14.45-14.62) to warm up his engines in his first great international competitive experience of the outdoor season. Before, Yulimar had only competed in the Spanish club championship (Division of Honor of the Iberdrola League), in which he dominated with a spurt of 14.96, the best record of the year.
Winning start with 14.91m ?@TeamRojas45 holds her lead in the Final 3 to begin her #DiamondLeague title defense with a victory.#OsloDL ??
? Thomas Windestam / @matthewquine pic.twitter.com/jW9vwZEhEn— Wanda Diamond League (@Diamond_League) June 15, 2023
The third position was occupied by the Ukrainian Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk with a jump of 14.75, her best record of the season. Farther behind was the Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts, twice subtitle of the world in 2019 and 2022, who registered a 14.33 in a competition of three fouls.
After this test in Oslo, Leyanis remains the leader of the women’s triple jump in the race for the diamond. The Cuban has 15 points after winning the second stop of the event in Rabat, Morocco at the end of May. She is escorted behind her by the Ukrainian Bekh-Romanchuk with 13 units and the Jamaican Ricketts with 11.
Leyanis is experiencing an explosion in 2023. In his previous experiences, he had never jumped more than 14.70, but this season he already has three stretches above 14.80, which allows him to dream of the podium in the World Championship to be held this summer in Budapest.
In other news from the Cuban athletics tour of Europe, this Thursday various media reported that discus thrower Denia Caballero, Olympic bronze medalist in Rio 2016 and world champion in Beijing 2015, decided to separate from the Antillean delegation and stay in Spain to try to relaunch her career. away from the national sports movement.
The 33-year-old from Villa Clara was the main figure of the discus throw in Cuba, after Yaimé Pérez also stayed in the United States during the World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, United States, in 2022. In this way, the young Silinda Morales (22) is then in charge of the discipline and everything seems to indicate that she is not afraid of a challenge.
Morales won this Wednesday the José Antonio Cansino Memorial in Castellón, Spain, where he achieved a shot of 65.06 meters, his best mark for life.
