MONACO.- Flying up to 15.06 meters, her new personal best, the Cuban Leyanis Perez won in extremis in the women’s triple jump competition at the meeting of the Diamond League athletics Monaco this Friday.
Pérez was provisionally second after registering four failures in her first five attempts, but in the last one she achieved, not only a valid jump, but the best of the evening, to overtake the Senegalese Sally Sarrwho came second with 14.99 meters.
Third place went to the Dominican Thea Lafond (14.79 meters), the current Olympic champion and the woman who leads the marks for the current 2026 season with 15.25 meters.
The other two Cubans in the contest, Davisleydi Velazco and Liadagmis Poveawere fourth (14.66 m) and fifth (14.43 m), respectively.
Pérez (24 years old), the current outdoor and indoor triple jump world champion, thus leaves this meeting very emotionally strengthened at the Principalityafter having been surpassed by Velazco last month in the meetings of the Oslo and Doha Diamond League.
The 15.06 meters officially constitute his new personal record. It reached 15.16 meters in 2024, but in conditions that did not allow the homologation of that time.
The other Latin American star of this event, the Venezuelan world record holder, did not participate in this meeting in Monaco. Yulimar Rojaswhich has not competed so far this year in the Diamond League.
Márquez leads qualifying trials
The Spanish Marc Marquez (Ducati) achieved the best time in the qualifying trials of the German Grand Prix of MotoGPeleventh of the twenty-two events of the season, this Friday on the circuit of Sachsenring.
The current world champion, who has not yet fully recovered from his last operation on his right shoulder, showed how comfortable he feels in this corner of the extinct German Democratic Republic (GDR), near Chemnitz.
Nicknamed “The King of the Ring”, the Catalan driver aspires on Sunday to equal two records of the Italian legend Giacomo Agostini, the number of victories in the same event (13) and the number of victories in the same circuit in the premier category (10).
On Friday, Marc Márquez surpassed his compatriot in the time sheet of the qualifying tests Raul Fernandez (Aprilia-Trackhouse) and Italian Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati-VR46) by 166 and 280 thousandths of a second, respectively.
His little brother, Alex Marquez (Ducati-Gresini), was fourth, ahead of the Australian Jack Miller (Yamaha-Pramac).
