Photo: Calixto N. Llanes

Havana, July 13 (RHC) - Three of the top Cuban athletes, including the talented triple jumper Leyanis Perez, traveled to Europe to compete next Sunday in the eighth stop of the Diamond League in Silesia, Poland.

Along with Leyanis, who is in the midst of her best season ever, the trip was also made by triple jumper Liadagmis Povea, high jumper Luis Zayas, coach Yoelbis Quesada and the manager of the Cuban national athletics team, Jorge Luis Aguilera.

Leyanis and Povea have just given the best competition of the season in the specialty at the Centrocaribes in San Salvador, together with the queen of the triple jump in the world, Yulimar Rojas.

In the Salvadoran capital, the Venezuelan won with 15.16m, escorted by the Cubans Leyanis (14.98) and Povea (14.85), in the highest quality event of the games, including all sports.

With these results, they lead the world list, a little more than a month before the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

There is great expectation to see the triple jump in Silesia, because together with the three figures of Latin American athletics, among the eight registered athletes, there are also Jamaican Riketts (14.53) and Ukrainian Romanchuk (14.75).

The Cuban presence in Silesia is completed with the high jumper Luis Zayas, runner-up in the Centrocaribes, who this year achieved the best record of his career (2.31).

The Cuban will be joined by, among others, Tokyo-2020 Olympic champions Mutaz Bashim (Qatar) and Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy) and New Zealander Hamish Kerr, also owner of 2.31 this season.