Three Cuban women compete today in athletics meeting in Mondeville, France
Havana, February 9 (RHC)-- Cuban triple jumpers Leyanis Perez and Liadagmis Povea, as well as four-time world champion Roxana Gomez, will compete today in the World Athletics Indoor Tour bronze category at the athletics meeting in Mondeville, France.
For Gómez it will be her first 400 meters flat race (m/p) in indoor tracks, after a 2021 that she will always remember for her great performance in the Tokyo Olympic Games, where she qualified to the final of that event with a personal best of 49.71 seconds.
Likewise, last year she was one of the members of the Cuban women's quartet that won the gold medal in the 4x400 m/p at the World Relay Championship, held in Poland.
Also on French soil will have their second presentation of the season Perez and Povea, the first of them winner of the title in the elite meeting of Miramas, on February 4, also in France.
In that tournament the young girl triumphed with a good record of 14.47 m, in what was a great debut in the current winter tour.
Gold medalist at the I Pan American Junior Games in Cali, Colombia, concluded in December, Perez won in an unobjectionable way, 30 centimeters ahead of the Portuguese Patricia Mamona (14.17 m), Olympic runner-up in the Japanese capital, who took the second place.
In the triple jump, Spain's Ana Peleteiro (14.15 m), bronze medalist in the Japanese summer event, completed the leading trio, while the other athlete from the island, Povea (13.79 m), finished in sixth place, according to the official website of World Athletics.