Sure, convinced. While she was on and off the track, Ana Peleteiro decided this Friday to qualify for the triple jump final, where on Saturday (8:20 pm) she will try to continue her bronze medal in Tokyo, who knows if with a gold.
The Galician jumper, European champion two months ago in Rome, qualified for the final in less than 20 seconds: a single jump. He reached 14.36 meters, one centimeter more than the mark required to enter the final (14.35). He left 14 centimeters on the table, and gave the impression that there is room to improve a lot in a final that will surely reach the gold bar at the mark of around 15 meters. His Spanish record, since he won Olympic bronze three years ago, is 14.87. His best score this year, 14.85.
The Spaniard, who returned to competition last year after giving birth to her first daughter, is having a great season, with gold at the European Championship and a bronze at the Indoor World Championship, and has arrived at her best moment for great challenge of The Paris, where the absence due to injury of the great favorite, defending champion and world record holder, his friend and training partner Yulimar Rojas, still gives him a chance to win gold in a final which, yes, is more equal than those. which the Venezuelan starred in before his injury.
For her part, Marta García from Leon did not advance to the final of the 5,000 meters after finishing tenth in her heat with 15:08.87. In his series, the Dutch Sifan Hassan, who in Paris sought to get three medals in the 4,000, 10,000 and marathon, exhausted himself as much as possible, almost always at the back of the group and only reacting to last lap to achieve. his passing without a problem.
First record
On this first day, Saint Deni experienced the first world record in athletics at these Games. Of course, this is not a brand with tradition, but in a very young specialty, the mixed 4×400, a fact that makes it easier for records to happen. In the semifinals, the United States broke the record with 3:07.41, more than a second better than the previous record, 3:08.80, which dates from the 2023 World Cup in Budapest.
Source: La Verdad
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