Triplist Povea signs Cuba's best result in Zurich

Editado por Ed Newman
2023-08-31 20:57:56

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Havana, August 31 (RHC).- Triple jumper Liadagmis Povea was the most outstanding figure for Cuba at the eleventh stop of the Diamond League athletics league in Zurich (Switzerland), finishing third.

Povea, sixth at the recent World Championships in Budapest, nailed the spikes in 14.73m, to escort the queen of the specialty, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas, Olympic and world champion and world record holder (15.15) and the Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts (14.78).

Fourth was Leyanis Perez, also Cuban, bronze medalist in Budapest, with 14.62.

In the high jump, Cuban Luis Zayas, fourth in the world, was this time seventh with 2.24, in an event won by Qatar's Mutaz Barshim (2.35).

Zayas has improved his personal best twice this year, setting it at the world championships at 2.33.

 The big surprise of the meeting was the 400m hurdles king, Norwegian Karsten Walhorm, who lost to British Virgin Islands hurdler Kyron McMaster. The Caribbean athlete clocked 47.27 to the Norwegian's 47.30.

In other events, Budapest world champions Noah Lyles and Sha Carry Riochardson won the 200m (19.80 sec) and 100m (10.88), respectively, while Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou dominated the long jump with 8.20m.



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