Cuban Roxana Gomez won the 400 meters flat (m/p) title on Monday at the FBK Games athletics meeting in Hengelo, in the Netherlands, to continue with good sensations in view of next month's World Championships in the United States.

Havana, June 7 (RHC)-- Cuban Roxana Gomez won the 400 meters flat (m/p) title on Monday at the FBK Games athletics meeting in Hengelo, in the Netherlands, to continue with good sensations in view of next month's World Championships in the United States.

Gomez, a finalist in the Tokyo 2020 summer event, completed the lap of the oval in 51.18 s, to be ahead of local runner Lieke Klaver (51.34 sec) and British Nikole Yeargin (51.56 s), according to the official website of the event.

On the 2nd of last year, the Cuban 4-time runner won this discipline with a time of 51.72 seconds at the Montreuil meeting in France.

She had previously won the bronze medal at the Ibero-American Athletics Championship held in Alicante, Spain, last May, where she stopped the clocks in 51.03 seconds, which is her best time this season.

Rose Mary Almanza also participated for Cuba in that competition, finishing sixth in the 800 m/p with a discreet mark of two minutes, three seconds and 43 hundredths.

In that event, the podium was won by Kenya's Faith Kipyegon (2:00.36), followed by Uganda's Halimah Nakaayi (2:00.87) and Australia's Catriona Bisset (2:00.90), who took second and third place, respectively.

Almanza will run again at the fifth stop of the Diamond League in Rome, Italy, on June 9.