the discus thrower Silinda Morales and the high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas They advanced this Sunday to the finals of their specialties at the World Athletics Championships that started on Saturday in Budapest.
Zayas needed ten jumps to overcome the bar at 2.28 meters, which marked the cut by which the 13 finalists qualified.
The Cuban rescued the last place for the final after a sequence of jumps in which, after exceeding 2.14 meters, he committed two fouls over 2.18, passed 2.22 without problems and in his last attempts over 2.25 and 2.28.
“Qualifying was very hard, I didn’t run well. I have to perfect the final entry position for the jump, the fundamentals for the technique above”, told the official media Hit.
For his part, Morales met expectations with a shipment of 62.73 meters that helped him access the final of the Disco in 9th place among the 12 finalists.
Also, Roxana Gómez advanced to the semifinals of the 400 meters with a time of 50.86, second in her career.
Finally, the performance of the Cuban team on Sunday ended with the disqualification of the young sprinter Yunisleidys de la Caridad García, after a false start in the 100-meter qualifying.
Yesterday, on the first day of the World Cup, Cuban triple jumpers Lázaro Martínez and Cristian Nápoles qualified for the final of their specialty.
Universal indoor monarch in 2022, Martínez achieved the third best mark in the qualifiers (17.12 meters), while Napoli achieved the fifth (16.95).
The Olympic monarch of Tokyo, the nationalized Portuguese Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Santiago will not be able to defend the crown won in Eugene 2022 due to lower back pain.
The island delegation to the event has already suffered The loss of hammer hammer Yasmani Fernándezwhich left the group on the scale made in Paris.
