The Ethiopian Marta Alemayo continues to take steps to become one of the great figures of the athlete as soon as possible and at the first meeting of the world indoor athletics circuit, held in Astana this Saturday, established the best universal sub-18 mark in the 3,000 metres.
Under-20 world cross country champion at 15 years old, now at 16 he has the world record for the three kilometer indoor track, by winning the Kazakh event with 8:39.80 after an impressive finish in which he overtook compatriot Shito Gumi (8:40.00).
Jamaica dominated the maximum speed tests, the 60 meter dash, with Kishane Thompson and Tia Clayton, winning in separate times of 6.56 and 7.18 to edge out Omani Ali Anwar Al Balushi and Portuguese Lorene Bazolo.
The Puerto Rican Luis Castro achieved the height with a discreet mark of 2.15 meters, the Slovenian Neja Filipic won the triple with 14.05, in the 60 hurdles the victory went to the American Dylan Beard (7.58) and the Japanese Yumi Tanaka (8.05) and the length went to Lester Lescay in his first competition as a Spaniard (7.91).
Source: La Verdad
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