XIX Pan American Games Santiago de Chile 2023
The Cuban triple jumper Leyanis Pérez stretched up to 14.73 m to dominate the stop of the Diamond League based in the American city of Eugene, a performance that marked her international debut this year outdoors and the confirmation of her permanence in the elite of the discipline just under two months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The Antillean, world runner-up this season on an indoor track, achieved her winning record on the first attempt, although the slight excess of permissible wind of 2.1 meters per second prevented her record from being recorded as valid. Even so, she was enough to relegate Dominican Thea Lafond (14.62 m), the current indoor planetary champion, to second position.
After that first jump by Leyanis, he signed a sequence of 14.55 m and 14.48 m, before giving up on his fourth attempt and making a null on his respective fifth and sixth opportunities.
In this event the podium was completely from the Caribbean, since Jamaican Shanieka Ricketts finished in third place, with a record of the year for her of 14.55 m.
“I feel good today and happy with the result. It is the next step to get to Paris and do well. I hope to continue improving and reach 15 meters,” Leyanis assured the tournament’s official site.
Among the interesting results of this day, the world record of Kenyan Beatrice Chebet (28:54.14) stood out, becoming the first woman in history to cover the distance in less than 29 minutes.
For her part, Canadian Camryn Rogers (77.76 m) dominated the hammer throw, Ethiopian Tsigie Gebreselama (14:18.76) won the 5,000-meter dash, American Joe Kovacs (23.13 m) triumphed in the shot put and American Keely Hodkinson (1:55.78) triumphed in the double lap of the oval.
This Sunday Cuban athletics will have activity with six exponents in a meeting in the French city of Forbach, led by the Olympic finalist Roxana Gómez.
2024-05-26 03:46:57
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