Ana Peleteiro, star of the Bilbao International Meeting

Triple jumper Ana Peleteiro and long jumper Eusebio Cáceres are the most notable stars among the athletes registered for the XVIII Bilbao International Meeting athletics that will take place this Wednesday, the 12th, at the Zorroza track between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm

The bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics continueá in the Biscayan capital with a route he hopes will take him to the World Cup in Budapest this coming August.

Peleteiro and Cáceres, however, are two of several Spanish athletes who arrived in Bilbao with the hope of landing in the Hungarian capital between August 19 and 27among others the sprinters Sergio López Barranco (100), Paula García (200) and Samuel García (400), the long jumper Héctor Santos, the middle distance runners Javier Mirón (800) and Lorena Martín (800), and javelin throwers Arantza Moreno and brothers Manu and Nico Quijera.

Cáceres and Santos advanced in an interesting battle for length with Cuban Lester Lescay and South African Samaai Ruswahl; and Moreno and the Quijeras with the javelin along with the Cuban resident of Galicia Yulenmis Aguilar and the Portuguese Leandro Santos, respectively.

The organization, the Bilbao Atletismo Santutxu club, is also hoping for good scores in the middle distance races, the two 800m races and the men’s 1,500m race.and the program is completed by two 3,000-meter tests, the women’s flat and the men’s hurdles.

While the main attention on Zorroza will focus on whether Peleteiro, who has already jumped 14.13 meters this season in her return to the slopes after missing last season to become a mother, reaches the minimum World Cup required by World Athletics which is 14.52 to get the ticket to Budapest.

Although the 14.25 required by the Spanish Federation (RFEA) may also be sufficient. In any case, both affordable brands for the 2021 Olympic bronze winners with 14.87.