The Portuguese Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Benfica athlete, got, this Saturday, the best world mark of the year in the triple jump, during the ‘meeting’ in Madrid.
Pichardo made four valid jumps and the 17.69 meters is the best jump achieved by an athlete in 2021. Still, the mark was not enough to win the competition, which was won by Hughes Zango (Burkina Faso), who reached 17.83 meters. Even so, as it was done with an irregular wind of +2.5m/s, the jump counted only for the classification of the event but is not registered in the official list of the triple jump.
In third place was the Frenchman Melvin Raffin, with 17.17.
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