2024-06-11 11:51:12
Textual content: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
Foto: RL Hevia
The primary foray of Cuban triple participant Lázaro Martínez into the Diamond League couldn’t have been higher. The Guantanamo runner-up within the Budapest 2023 world championship, dominated the fourth cease of the celebrated circuit with the one file over 17 meters of the day, regardless of the promising line-up that came about on the Mohamed VI Worldwide Athletics Assembly in Marrakech.
Even Martínez’s successful soar, 17.10 on the third try, was removed from his private greatest (17.51), however he improved by 26 centimeters his highest mark in 2024, which he had achieved indoors final February within the French metropolis of Lievin.
With this consequence, the Cuban established a brand new stage for the Moroccan rally and re-enters the dialog of potential medalists in Paris 2024, after a discreet indoor world competitors three months in the past, however he must enhance much more and consolidate himself about 17.40 if we intend to aspire to no less than a spot on the rostrum below the 5 rings.
As we identified in Cuba Noticias 360 within the preview of this occasion, two different athletes of Cuban origin, representing different nations, have been registered within the triple soar competitors, though solely Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Santiago participated.
The Olympic and world champion with the colours of Portugal needed to accept second place, setting his greatest sequence of the afternoon at 16.92 meters, very removed from the 17.51 with which he gained the primary part of the diamond in Xiamen, China, initially of Might.
For his half, Andy Díaz from Sancti Spiritus, a nationalized Italian, didn’t lastly seem, nor did Hugues Frabice Zango from Burkina Faso, present common monarch of the specialty within the Hungarian capital final summer season.
The third place was occupied by the Brazilian Almir dos Santos (16.90), winner of the Ibero-American sports activities occasion a number of days in the past, and he was carefully adopted by the German Max Heb (16.85), the Frenchman Jean Marc Pontvianne (16.42) and the Portuguese Tiago Pereira (16.31), in that order.
The frustration of the day was for the American veteran Christian Taylor (16.16), who regardless of holding the Olympic crowns of London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016, has been away from the world elite for a very long time, however continues to stay lively .
It’s value noting that two different Cubans have been absent in Marrakech and also will be in Paris chasing a medal. These are the World Cup bronze medalist in Budapest, Cristián Nápoles, and the Spanish nationalized Havana native Jordan Díaz, one of many hopes of the European nation’s athletics to climb to the Parisian podium.