• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 03 / 10 / 2012

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On the second day of XIV World Athletics Championships to be played indoors in Istanbul, Turkey, competing the Cuban Mabel Gay and Yargelis Savigne triple jump in the quest for medals.

Gay, planetary outdoor runner in Germany 2009, competed in group A and got their classification 14.22 meters, valid to end in third place and access to dispute the scepter in the stadium Atakoy Athletics Arena.

   Savigne, universal queen in Osaka 2007 and Berlin 2009, was not in gala day and managed to stretch to a distance of 14.09 meters, enough to be placed fourth in the B section and ensure their representation in the dispute over the crown.

     Both represent the best hope jumping campus to open the Caribbean medal of the island on Saturday.

   Although Savigne is outstanding record 14.55 meters this year and is far from a personal best (15.28), ranked fourth in the ranking of the world in the current season and is a strong candidate for the specialists to fight for the awards.

    She climbed to the top of the awards podium in the version of Valencia 2008 and finished second in Doha 2010.

   The main opponents of the Cuban Yamile Aldama include Britain (14.62), the Kazakh Olga Rypakova (14.39), Russian Anna Krylova (14.27), China's Li Yanmei (14.23) and Jamaican Kimberly Williams (14.15)., Reviewed the web site of the event.

     The heptalonista Yordani Garcia (CUB) is seventh with three thousand 202 points, after completing four tests, and this Saturday will attempt to be included among the winners when the three remaining tests dabbled (pole vault, 60-meter hurdles and the race of a thousand meters).

   Cubans Misleydis Gonzales (shot) and Lazaro Borges (pole vault) will struggle for the awards on this date, while their compatriots Alexis Copello the triple and David Giralt and short hurdler tickets Orlando Ortega sought to ensure his presence in the finals, respectively.