Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva finishes in sixth place at Lievin meet, France

February 18, 2022

With a mark of 4.55 meters (m), Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, Olympic silver medalist from London 2012, finished today in sixth place at the Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais athletic meet in Lievin, France, a tournament with gold category status in the World Athletics Indoor Tour.

Silva, world champion indoors in Sopot, Poland, in 2014, and outdoors in Beijing, China, in 2015, this time was unable to place among the medalists, as she did in her three previous indoor competitions this year.

She also fell short of her best mark of the current season, 4.65 m, achieved on February 14th at the l'Eure meet (Val de Reuil), also on French soil, where she finished in third place.

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Now ahead of Cuba's pole vaulter were five rivals, including Russian Anzhelika Zidorova (4.85 m), the title winner, according to the official World Athletics website.

The podium for that event was completed by Iryna Zhuk (4.80 m), from Belarus, in second place, and the champion at the Tokyo 2020 summer competition, American Katie Nageotte, placed third with the same result as the European athlete although with more misses.

As for Silva, on February 3rd she also finished in third place at the Czech Indoor Gala in the Czech Republic, with 4.51 m, falling one centimeter short of what she achieved on January 29th in French territory, at the Nevers stop of the Perche Elite Tour pole vault competition, an event in which she finished second.

Likewise representing the island, this Thursday at that Lievin meet Lázaro Martínez won the triple jump title with a mark of 17.21 m, which constitutes the best world record for that event so far this year.