The weekend does not stop bringing good news for Spanish athletics. While in Madrid everything was ready for the return of the Vallehermoso Meeting, Ana Peleteiro, Spanish triple jump record holder with a 14.73 meter indoor mark , was running his best outdoor jump in the Diamond League in Paris (14.59 ), a record that gave him fifth place.
The victory was for the world champion, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas , her training partner, who again broke the 15-meter wall: 15.05 .
Rojas, trained, like Peleteiro, by the Cuban Iván Pedroso , put himself in charge of the world ranking of the year last August 9 when proclaiming in Lima Pan American champion with 15.11 as his great rival, the Colombian Caterine Ibargüen, champion Olympic, he had to retire due to injury and has not been able to compete in Paris.
Peleteiro, current European champion in indoor court, achieved the mark in the second round. He had started with 14.26, then reached those 14.59 and no longer improved, although he achieved another notable jump of 14.49.
The second place , with 14.75, went to the Cuban Liadagmis Povea , and the third to the American Keturah Orji with 14.72, personal record
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