gold and silver for Portugal for the first time
Auriol Dongmo, champion in the shot put, and Pedro Pablo Pichardo, runner-up in the triple jump, made history
Auriol Dongmo, champion in the shot put, and Pedro Pablo Pichardo, runner-up in the triple jump, history, giving Portugal gold and silver for the first time in the same edition of some indoor track and field athletics World Cups.
On the first day of the Belgrade World Cup, Dongmo secured an unprecedented medal in weight for Portugal, with a new absolute national record of 20.43 meters.
On Wednesday at the Tokyo2020 Olympic Games, he opened the contest with two throws of 19.32 meters, followed by two nulls, before throwing at 20.43, when he had dropped to third Portuguese.
In second place was the North American Chase Ealy (20.21) and in third was the Dutch Jessica Schilder (19.46).
Jessica Inchude, invited at the last minute, finished a race in 12th position, with a best mark of 17.58 meters, moving on to the three final tests not foreseen for the best eight.
In the first World Cup final, Pichardo twice broke the indoor national record, with 17.42 and 17.46 meters, but suffered a foot injury on the fourth attempt to prevent him from trying to attack gold.
The Cuban Lázaro Martínez was crowned the world, with 17.64 meters, the best world mark of the year, with the North American finishing in third place, with 17.21.
Tiago Luís Pereira ended up finishing the triple jump contest in ninth position, missing the qualification for the final jumps by only two middleweights, with the mark of 16.46.
Lorene Bazolo reached the semifinals of the women’s 60 meters, running the first series of the qualifiers in 7.24 seconds, managing to be among the six recaps.
In the semifinal, Bazolo repeated the mark of 7.24 and ended his series in eighth position, being 20th among the 24 semifinalists.
In her debut in World Cups, Rosalina Santos was seventh in her series in the 60 meters, in 7.37 seconds, seven hundredths of her personal record, finishing the race with the 34th record.
After recovering from covid-19, Cátia Azevedo ended up in the 400 meters qualifiers in 18th position, with a time of 53.01 seconds, 11 hundredths of her best indoor half record, failing to reach the finals.