Personal best, national record and Olympic qualification. All of this represents the 9.90 seconds that Shainer Reginfo recorded in the XXVI Ciudad de Salamanca-Memorial Carlos Gil Pérez Athletics Trophy.
To date, the Pinero athlete had not reached 10.00 seconds, the minimum mark required for direct qualification to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in the one hundred meters.
His personal best was 10.14, according to World Athletics (WA). In the eliminatory heats he achieved 10.03, and in the final he appeared with the now extraordinary Cuban top of the hectometer. That time is the third best time of the season, only surpassed by the Jamaican Oblique Seville (9.82) and the American Noah Lyles (9.85).
But it was not only in Salamanca that Shainer shone. In this Spanish city, the scene of Javier Sotomayor’s world record, fellow sprinter Reynaldo Espinosa got a direct ticket to the imminent summer event. Espinosa, who had the best time, 10.18, established in this year’s Cuba Cup, opened with 10.11, and in the final he set 9.96, to second his compatriot, placing him in tenth place in the 2024 ranking .
Both surpass the former national record of 9.98, first set by Silvio Leonard, in Guadalajara in 1977, and equaled by Roberto Skyers, in Camagüey, in 2019.
For Sweden, triple jumper Leyanis Pérez won in her second stop in the Diamond League (seventh on the circuit), held in Stockholm. She is now the leader of that fight, after winning with 14.67 meters, enough to surpass Shanieka Ricketts (JAM-14.40) and Thea Lafond (DMA-14.26).
«I am very good, although not completely satisfied, because I came here to go further, but I made some technical errors, especially in the third part of the jump. I will still have to work on that aspect, especially to reach 15 meters, which is my goal. I will correct those mistakes for the Monaco stop. My goal is to arrive in Paris in the best possible shape,” said Leyanis Pérez.
