The Portuguese Francisco Belo and Tsanko Arnaudov were eliminated this Saturday in the shot put of the World Athletics Championships, in Budapest, when they finished the classification in places 27 and 30, respectively.
Francisco Belo threw the apparatus at 19.24 meters on his first attempt -and the only valid one-, while Tsanko Arnaudov started with a null shot, later improving to 19.03 and 19.17.
Both lived up to their best marks of the year, which were 20.64 in the case of Belo, who continues to hold the 13th position in London 2017 as the best ranking in the three World Cups in which he participated, and 20.17 in the national record holder , who also achieved the best performance in the British capital, where he was ninth, in four participations.
Seven pitchers managed to qualify directly for the final (21.40), which will be held today at the National Athletics Center, the last of which was the American Ryan Crouser, who this year has already improved the world record three times, with 21.48. The last catch was made by the Italian Leonardo Fabbri, with a launch of 20.74.
The shot put final will take place this Saturday at the National Athletics Center, starting at 8:37 p.m. local time (7:37 p.m. in Lisbon).
Source: TSF
