Auriol Dongmo qualified directly for the shot put final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday with a throw of 19.59 meters in the first attempt, while Jessica Inchude and Eliana Bandeira were eliminated.
The world and European indoor champion, European outdoor runner-up, fourth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and fifth at the Oregon 2022 World Championships, was the second athlete to throw, after New Zealander Maddison-Lee Wesche reached 18.59.
A few minutes later, Dongmo, 33 years old, beat this milestone by one meter and “stamped” the passage to the final, scheduled for next Saturday, at 20:15 (19:15), surpassing the direct qualification mark (19.10) . .
“My intention was to skip the first test and finish qualifying. I succeeded and I thank God”concluded Dongmo, lamenting the “very terrible heat” in the Hungarian capital.
The Portuguese was the first of the eight pitchers to advance directly to the game decision, with the second-best mark, just behind Dutch Jessica Schilder (19.64, her best mark of the year), Oregon 2022 bronze medalist.
The Portuguese record holder, who placed 20th in Beijing 2015, still ahead of Cameroon, will end Portugal’s participation in the 19th World Cups in 20.43, admitting to feeling responsible for getting a good result and making sure they are physically in shape. order.
“Of course I feel responsible. I’ve worked and made a lot of sacrifices to get here and I have to give back everything I’ve done before, not just for myself, but for the whole team.”emphasized the Sporting pitcher.
Beneath the direct qualification point for the final and the 18.59 meters Wesche reached exactly during the first rehearsal, which gave him 12th and last place, were the other Portuguese women, in a match where Dongmo’s fifth place last year was the best result ever.
Jessica Inchude, 27, finished in 16th place, improving one position from the Oregon2022 Worlds [antes já tinha sido 30.ª em Londres2017 ainda pela Guiné-Bissau]with 18.16, achieved on the third and final shot, after 17.74 and a nil.
“I’m very happy with my grade and with my ranking. I got a better grade and improved one place compared to last year, so I think it’s a very good balance. I think I participated very well, but that so did my opponents and It was a complicated match. I did my best”, assured Inchude.
Eliana Bandeira, also 27 years old, was four places lower, in 21st place, thanks to the 17.79 of the last release, after two zeros.
“Everything was left to the end, but anyway, I’m very happy to have been among the best in the world and to have been able to raise the female weight throw in Portugal, with three great athletes in these championships, who were my first to the final and that was one of the objectives, but I have gained some experience and I am aiming for the Olympics, I have to continue, because the season was positive, but it is to improve, to refine the technique, because there There is some instability for next year,” Bandeira stressed.
The final of the women’s shot put, the only discipline in which Portugal ‘exhausted’ the quota in qualifying, ends Portugal’s presence at the 19th World Cups, without having secured any position above eighth place.
Source: DN
