Cuban athlete Yaimé Pérez broke a new discus throw record during the Oklahoma Throwing Series, in Ramona, California, United States.
During the athletic meeting held in San Diego County, the young woman achieved this Saturday, April 13, an impressive throw of 73.09 m, the longest throw at the national level recorded in this sport since 1989.
Pérez left the Cuban team in 2022, and settled in the United States, a country he is expected to represent in the next Olympics. On this occasion, not only did he surpass the 70 m barrier for the first time, but he also reached 3 m beyond that mark.
Although Pérez started his throws with a fault, on a second opportunity he reached 71.96 m, surpassing his mark of 69.39 m set in 2019, where he won the World Athletics Championships in Doha.
In the third round, he managed to go even further, reaching the winning mark of 73.09 m, achieving the highest discus throw in the US in 35 years.
The 32-year-old champion, who won bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, broke the previous record set by Valarie Allman, of 71.46 m, and is ranked tenth in the world’s greatest throws in history.
Pérez has been an outstanding athlete, and was the main figure that led Cuba to the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in August 2022, where she left the delegation shortly before returning to the Island.
In Cuba, the Cuban official press tried to minimize the impact of this leak for national sport, although it did declare that it had been “serious indiscipline.”
In her first competition in the US, held in April of last year, ‘La Rusa’, as Yaimé is also known, took third place in the field and track tournament, held at the Tritón stadium in La Jolla, California. , with a throw of 66.97 m.
Now, in the annual competition in California, only for athletes who receive an invitation, the Cuban achieved her impressive mark in her sixth throw, after starting the test with 64.81 meters. The next attempts were 64.12 m, 66.12 m, 66.76 m, and a fault.
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