OSLO.- The Cuban athletics star Leyanis Perezcurrent outdoor and indoor world champion, was defeated this Wednesday in the triple jump at the athletics meeting of the Oslo Diamond League for a compatriot, Davisleydi Velazco.
Velazco, 26, does not represent the Cuba after having left the island heading to USA and to settle in Puerto Rico.
On the stadium track in the Norwegian capital, Velazco reached 14.85 meters in the first of his six jumps, his greatest distance of the evening and the one that allowed him to take the win.
He thus equals his personal best, which he had achieved in mid-May in Puerto Rico.
Second was the Senegalese Sally Sarr (14.75 meters), while Pérez disappointed with a third place, finishing only at 14.60 meters.
The other Cuban registered at this meeting, Liadagmis Poveacould barely be sixth -penultimate-, with 14.21 meters in her best attempt.
The best of the current season in the women’s triple jump, with 14.95 meters, are Pérez and the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojaswho did not compete in this event nor has he debuted yet in the current Diamond League season.
Lutkenhaus beats Wanyonyi
The American prodigy Cooper Lutkenhausjust 17 years old, defeated the current Olympic and world champion, the Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyiin the 800 meters of the meeting of the Oslo Athletics Diamond League this Wednesday.
Positioned behind Wanyonyi, Lutkenhaus overtook the favorite with 200 meters to go and in the final meters he resisted the African athlete’s counterattack, which forced the Texan teenager to stretch his torso towards the finish line to be declared the winner of the race by just one hundredth of a second (1:42.08 versus 1:42.09).
Lutkenhaus’s time is now his personal best and the best world record so far this season, which confirms him as one of the new stars of one of the highest level events in current athletics.
Lutkenhaus had already managed to win on Sunday in the double lap of the track at the meeting of Stockholmalso in the Diamond League, but Wanyonyi did not participate there and his main victim was the Canadian Marco AropOlympic runner-up.
