Cuban athletes Yumileidi Cumba, Dayron Robles and Yipsi Moreno finished third in their individual competitions

Cuban athletes Yumileidi Cumba, Dayron Robles and Yipsi Moreno finished third in their individual competitions, to secure third place for the Americas female team and fifth for the region’s male squad at the tenth World Cup meet in this city.

Cumba recovered from a bad start to make a 19.12 meter toss in her third attempt in the shot-put to take the bronze, behind Oceania’s Valerie Vili (19.87) and Russian Olga Ryabinkina (19.54).

In the hammer throw competition, Moreno unleashed three throws over 73 meters, with a opening hurl of 73.99 meters to end third. Polish athlete Kamila Skolimowska (75.29) placed first in front of the world record holder, Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko (74.44).

Dayron Robles, world ranking leader in the men’s 110 meter hurdles, got off to a bad start in lane eight, but caught up to snatch the bronze medal (13.06 seconds) behind American Allen Johnson (12.96) and China’s Liu Xiang (13.03). They all did better than British athlete Colin Jackson (13.07), the World Cup record holder since the 1992 competition in Havana.

Cuban participation also included a gold medal won by Zulia Calatayud on Saturday in the 800 meters race with time of 2:00.06, a silver medal by Sonia Bisset in the javelin (61.74 meters), Daimi Pernía’s fifth place in the women’s 400 meter hurdles (54.60 seconds) and Yania Ferrales’ seventh place in women’s discus (58.93 meters).

The eleventh International Association of Athletics Federations World Cup will take place in Split, Croatia, in 2010. (Javier Clavelo Robinson).

Source: Granma