Yorgelis Rodríguez García, a young woman from the town of Carrera Larga, El Salvador municipality in Guantanamo province, said goodbye to Mösle Stadium, ranking eighth in the 43rd edition of Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, with a personal best in 800 meters clocking 2: 12.65.
Yorgelis Rodríguez García, a young woman from the town of Carrera Larga, El Salvador municipality in Guantanamo province, said goodbye to Mösle Stadium, ranking eighth in the 43rd edition of Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, with a personal best in 800 meters clocking 2: 12.65.
The representative of the Cuban heptathlon competed in this event of the challenge of multiple events of the athletics was two seconds complete below her previous record that was of the Olympic Games of Rio de Janeiro, and with that scored 6 446 points.
Gabino Arzola, coach of the Guaso gazelle emphasizes the improvement of the results of this athlete, who must strive on the 800m race, as the two-days -exhausting competition ends and it decides on the result final.
According to the website Jit, published by the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation in the remaining tests, the Pan American champion of Toronto behaved adjusted to the preparation stage previous to the World Championship in London next August.
The heptathlon competition was led by the Belgian Olympic champion Nafissatou Tham with best personal of 7 013 points, after having beaten the records in the 800, 200 and 100 meters with fences, javelin and high jump.
Carolin Schäfer (6 836) and Laura Ikauniece-Admidina (6 815), in that order, matched also their best personal.
The next stage of the circuit will be on June 17 and 18 in Kladno, Czech Republic, but there will be no Cuban athletes since those of the island should reappear in Rattingen, Germany, on 24 and 25 of that same month.
Translation: Ilia Charon