Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado of Colombia.
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Colombian Flor Denis Ruiz y Valentina Barrios their presence in the final of the Javelin launch of the Tokyo World Cup, on a historic day for national athletics.
Ruiz, 34, in force world runner -up in Budapest 2023he demonstrated his hierarchy by classifying with the eighth best brand thanks to a record of 62,11 metros In his first attempt. The experienced pitcher, who two years ago saw gold escape in the last sigh of the final, thus ratifies her condition as a South American reference in the discipline.
The great news came from the hand of Valentina Barrioswho with just 21 years managed to get into his First World Final. The young athlete reached the 60,98 metrosrecord that placed it as the classified twelfthlast to enter by playful, but enough to write his name among the best on the planet.
In the same test, the Ecuadorian Juleisy Angulo24 years old, shone with a launch of 63,25 metrosnew national record for your country, while your compatriot Paula Torresrecent bronze medalist on the 35 km march, it was an inspiration for her. Angulo will share the scenario with the Colombians in the final of Saturday.
The classification round also left negative surprises: the Uruguayan Rotundo Manuelaeighth best mark of the season (64.17 m), was eliminated with just 57.43 m, as well as Brazilians JUCILENE SALES DE LIMA (59,79 m) y Daniella Mieko nisimura (53,01 m).
In this way, Colombia will have double representation in the finalwith the experience of Flor Ruiz and the youthful illusion of Valentina Barrios, who will compete in front of favorites such as Serbia Adriana Vilagos and the Australian Mackenzie Littlemain world gold candidates.
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