2024-06-12 15:34:23
Textual content: Editorial Cuba Noticias 360
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The fourth cease of the celebrated Diamond League circuit, primarily based in Marrakech this Sunday, will present the Cuban public with a bittersweet spectacle that’s turning into increasingly more widespread and can in all probability be repeated on a bigger scale within the Olympic Video games.
Three athletes born on the Caribbean island are registered within the triple bounce occasion, however solely one among them will achieve this representing the tricolor flag. That is the Budapest 2023 world runner-up, Lázaro Martínez, who will debut within the outside season in an occasion that can carry collectively a number of of the principle figures within the specialty.
Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Santiago, present Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion and world champion in Eugene 2022, can even compete in each competitions sporting the colours of Portugal, and who is likely one of the robust candidates to get on the rostrum this summer time in Paris.
The opposite Antillean who will seem on the Mohamed VI Worldwide Athletics Assembly is Andy Díaz, on behalf of Italy. The person from Sancti Spiritus might not arrive with the poster of his compatriots however he nonetheless has sufficient credentials this 12 months to be a rival to be considered.
Of all of them, Pichardo clearly monopolizes the highlight, and though numerous accidents prompted him to overlook virtually all the previous calendar, together with the world championship within the Hungarian capital, he has already proven that he’s trying to defend his crown beneath the 5 rings.
The 31-year-old triple jumper, who competed for Cuba till 2017, gained a number of weeks in the past on the first cease of the diamond circuit in Xiamen, China, with a sequence of 17.51 meters that up to now is the fourth longest of the 12 months.
Díaz, for his half, will debut outside, however final February he achieved one of the best indoor time, stretching to 17.61 within the Copernicus Cup in Torun (Poland), equivalent to the World Athletics gold circuit, which catapulted him to the highest of the 2024 rating.
Martínez, from Guantanamo, will search to get nearer to the outcomes that allowed him to climb to the World Cup podium the earlier 12 months together with his private better of 17.51 and for now he solely reveals a discreet 16.87 indoors.
Nevertheless, the three Cubans may have one other vital opponent within the determine of Burkinabe Hugues Fabrice Zango, common monarch in Budapest and Olympic bronze in Tokyo, proprietor of a file of 17.12 within the present marketing campaign.
Finishing the record are the American veteran Christian Taylor (16.57), winner of London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016, in addition to the Brazilian Almir Dos Santos (17.31), who gained the latest Ibero-American athletics competitors, and the Frenchman Jean-Marc Pontvianne (16.52 and the additionally American Donald Scott (5:00 p.m.).
Regardless of the formidable line-up of triple jumpers who will attend the previous Moroccan metropolis, two different Cubans who should seem on the summer time occasion within the French capital can be absent. The world bronze medalist Cristián Napoles and the nationalized Spaniard Jordan Díaz, one of many medal hopes of the Iberian nation.