Salamanca, Feb 20 (EFE).- The Hispanic-Cuban athlete, running for the second time in official competition as Spaniard Jordan Díaz, this Sunday achieved his Spanish record in Salamanca in the triple jump, by reaching, in his second, 17 .27 meters, a distance that made him the world leader this year.

The national record was achieved in the Spanish Under-23 championship which took place this weekend on the slopes of Carlos Gil Pérez in the capital Salamanca and was joined on the podium by Pablo Ortiz Aguado, with 15.12, and Alex Aguiriano, with 15.09.

Jordan Díaz, who made his first jump void, was surprised by a second jump, strong and powerful, which took him to 17.27, a mark that places him as world leader this year, with just 20 years and just 20 days to acquire Spanish citizenship.

Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortun, the world’s greatest triple jump promise, 20 years old and born in Havana, has been a world junior and sub-20 champion in the double jump as well as at the Youth Games.

On June 28, he left the Cuban expedition to participate in the competition in Castellón and, after contacting Spain’s Ana Peleteiro, the Spanish bronze athlete in Tokyo in the same discipline, notified the Spanish authorities. .

The young athlete has been training in Guadalajara for several months with Iván Pedroso, accompanying Yulimar Rojas, Peleteiro, Héctor Santos, Fátima Diamé, Tessy Ebosele, Alexis Copello and Changzhou Huang among other elite jumpers.

Bernat Canet won in the men’s 60 meters, with 6.68, breaking his personal best and equaling Sergio López’s best record of the year and hundredth championship record, ahead of Miguel Izquierdo and José Luis Jiménez in third place.

Xenia Benach achieved, for the second time this weekend, her 60m hurdles championship record, in a fast race she won with 8.13, ahead of Aitana Radsma and Mireia Lopez.

One of the most eagerly awaited finals, for women, is the 400m sprint, in which the European sub-23 runners-up in the 400m hurdles, Sara Gallego and Andrea Jiménez of Avila participate as main candidates for the race. final victory.

After a good start by Jiménez, who this year was far from her best time, Sara Gallego took the single track in first place, and since then, she has pressed for a comfortable win, with 53.38, which is a championship record and half a second from world championship minimum.

In men, the final was also highly expected, therefore, after Bernat Erta, the big favorite, left very quickly to avoid a surprise by taking the free lane and going to the finish line, which he crossed in the first place with great timing. , 46.44, which helped him achieve a championship record, followed by Javier Sánchez Santos and Alejandro Guerrero. All 400 runners were under 48 seconds.

In the men’s 1500m, Mohamed Attaoui won, with 3,53.37, after a great attack with two laps to go; followed by Alejandro Quijada, 3,53,85; and Manuel Jiménez, with 3.55.38; while in women’s, Marina Martínez won, with 4,19,71; followed by Elijah Saura, 4.22.31; and Raquel Echeverria, 4.30.70.