Auriol Dongmo competes this Saturday in the shot put competition of the World Athletics Championships, in Budapest, together with Jessica Inchude and Eliana Bandeira, in the last hope of medals, the day Solange Jesús faces the marathon.
The world and European indoor champion, runner-up in Europe outdoors, fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and fifth at the 2022 Oregon World Cup -the best Portuguese classification in the history of the discipline- makes her debut in the Hungarian capital in the scheduled qualifying round. at 10:25 local time (09:25 in Lisbon).
Qualifying for the final, also this Saturday, but at 8:15 p.m. (01:15), will be held at a distance of 19.10 meters, or presence in the top 12 of the two qualifying groups.
Dongmo, 33, starts the competition with the third best mark of the year in Group B, with the 19.76 achieved by winning the European ‘indoor’ in Istanbul, Turkey, behind the Chinese Lijiao Gong (20.06). , Olympic champion and runner-up. -world champion, and the American Chase Ealey (20.06), holder of the world title.
The Portuguese record holder, with 20.43, who was 20th in Beijing 2015, also for Cameroon, holds the sixth mark of 2023 among those registered, with the North American Maggie Ewen (20.45), the Canadian Sarah Mitton (19.83) and the Jamaican Danniel Thomas. -Dodd (19.77) will lead Group A.
Jessica Inchude, 27, who placed 17th in Oregon 2022 [e 30.ª em Londres 2017 ainda pela Guiné-Bissau] She is part of this group, with 18.65 as the best mark of the year, two centimeters below her personal record, while debutant Eliana Bandeira, 27, competes in Group B, like Dongmo, presenting herself with 18 .49 as a personal record already achieved in 2023.
The final of the women’s shot put competition, the only discipline in which Portugal ‘exhausted’ the quota, closes the Portuguese participation in the World Cups, on a day in which the women’s marathon will also be held.
Solange Jesús, 36, makes her debut at the World Championships, appearing among the 78 athletes who will start the 42.195-kilometer urban circuit of Budapest, starting and finishing at Heroes’ Square, at 07:00 ( 06:00) 00 h. Lisbon), with the 47th time among those present (02: 28.15 hours of her personal record achieved this year).
Rosa Mota, in Rome 1987, and Manuela Machado, in Gothenburg 1995, have already won gold medals in World Championships, in this emblematic distance.
Source: TSF
