Cuban athletes to participate in Rome Diamond League meeting

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 3 (acn) The fourth stop of the Athletics Diamond League will be held tomorrow in Rome, Italy, and the Cuban triple jumper Pedro Pablo Pichardo will be one of the great attractions.

Pichardo, leader of the season in the men's triple jump (18.08 meters), third best record in history, will seek his second victory in this strong athletic contest, after the win achieved in the opening of this competition in Doha, Qatar .
On that occasion, the representative of Cuba, world runner-up in Moscow 2013, reached 18.06 m, a result he surpassed in two centimeters on May 28th at the closing date of the Barrientos Memorial-Cuba Cup, which hosted the Panamericano Stadium, in this city.
This record of the Cuban is only exceeded by the world record holder British Jonathan Edwards (18.29) and American Kenny Harrison (18.09).
The also Cuban triple jumper Ernesto Revé and the discus throwers Yaimé Caballero and Denia Perez will also compete on Roman soil.
Caballero achieved a few days ago in Havana the season second best (69.51 meters) in the women's discus throw, event dominated by the Olympic monarch Croat Sandra Perkovic (70.08), so this could be an interesting match between them.
The Diamond League awards four points to the winners in each event; while the silver medallists earn two units and those finishing third win only one point, though the in tournaments of Zurich, Switzerland; and Brussels, Belgium, to be held in September, the score will be doubled.
Atletismo: cubanos competirán en Liga del Diamante de Roma