The Cuban athletes closed their performance this Sunday at the World Relay Championships held in the Bahamas without obtaining tickets for the athletics competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
In this way, they were left with the only option to access the event under the five rings through ranking.
The best options rested on the women’s 4×400 meters quartet, but the formation of Melissa Padrón, Rose Mary Almanza, Lisneydis Veitía and Roxana Gómez, although they closed the repechage series with their best mark of the year (3:29.36 minutes) , his time was only enough for third position.
Only two runners-up for each heat ensured their presence at the Paris event and that privilege was won by the favorite girls from the Netherlands (3:27.45), escorted to the finish line by the girls from Switzerland (3:28.30), thanks to a effective auction at closing.
That performance left the island’s runners out of Paris 2024, while Jamaica, India, Belgium and Spain joined the eight finalists of the modality to complete the Olympic tickets, review Hit.
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In the women’s 4×100 meters event, Laura Moreira, Jocelyn Echazabal, Yarima García and Yunisleydis de la Caridad García sealed their second performance in the event with a fourth place, outside the classification zone.
A false start by Moreira put greater tension on the Cuban team and caused them to make the slowest first stage among all the contenders. Such a difference could not be discounted by her teammates, even though they managed to run at a relatively equal pace to the rest of the teams.
As a group they improved their 2024 record by stopping the clocks at 44.05 seconds, but far from the performances that led them to shine in the Central Caribbean and continental multi-sport events last year.
Jamaica (42.74) and Trinidad and Tobago (43.54), owners of the Olympic quotas in dispute, finished ahead of the Cubans, while Hungary (44.04) came in third position.
The men’s relay of the same modality had worse luck, as Reynaldo Espinosa, Edel Amores, Yaniel Carrero and Shanier Reginfo looked worse than in the previous presentation, especially in the dynamics of the changes. This took them to a discreet mark of 39.39 seconds, valid only for seventh place in their series.
In this way, they placed 16th among the 24 nations present in the second round, used by South Africa, Ghana, Australia, Germany, Nigeria and Liberia to access the Paris 2024 athletics competition.
After this disaster, the only way for the Cuban couriers to compete in the French capital is to be assigned one of the two spots that in each modality will be distributed based on the qualifying ranking. This, however, is not a simple option and we will have to wait for the final cut before the Games to know what will happen.
