Triplistas Lidagmis Povea and Leyanis Pérez dominate indoor rally in Madrid

The Cuban triple jumpers Liadagmis Povea and Leyanis Pérez occupied the first positions, in that order, in the Meeting of Athletics Under Roof of the city of Madrid, in Spain, where the long jumper Maykel Massó finished second.

In the new gold category event on the World Athletics Indoor Tour, Povea won his fourth competition this season by stretching to 14.65 meters, according to a report of the Cuban News Agency (ACN).

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The occupant of fifth place in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic event opened with successive marks of 14.53 and 14.59 meters. After giving up the third down she fouled, she declined the fifth down and closed out with the winning jumper, according to reflects the competitor’s website.

Once again he found the greatest resistance in the young Leyanis. The 21-year-old also started strong with a jump of 14.46 meters, to which she added an inch in her next foray. She totaled four valid executions, but her best was her fifth, when she spiked her 14.50 meters off the board to secure second place.

The third place corresponded to the Portuguese Patricia Mamona, silver medalist at the Olympic event in the Japanese capital, who closed with 13.98 meters as her best mark.

This performance confirms the good moment of the two Cuban triple jumpers, especially Povea, owner of the best record so far this season with 14.81 meters, achieved in her previous presentation in the French city of Liévin.

Madrid’s performance represented the fifth time this season of indoor competitions that Povea and Leyanis have occupied, in alternating order, the top two positions in the standings.

Cuban triple jumpers climb to the podium in Europe

Both dominate the Word Athletics Indoor Tour, with Povea in the lead thanks to his accumulated 30 points, and Leyanis as escort, with a harvest of 21 points.

For his part, Massó signed his best personal record in indoor competition in the Spanish capital, reaching 8.15 meters in his fourth attempt of the afternoon. The previous jumps of him had been discreet. After giving up his fifth attempt, he too couldn’t finish with a better mark.

It was not enough to unseat the Greek Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, Miltidis Tentoglou, from first place, who had reached that distance with his third jump, and obtained another record of 8.07 meters, higher than the second best jump of the Cuban.

With this result, Tentoglou reached 20 lines on the circuit, two less than the Swede Thobias Montler, who finished third in Madrid with a jump of 8.14 meters. Massó closes the leading trio in the standings, now with 17 units.