“Lester Lescay is a boy who was born in Cuba, married here with a Spanish and now represents Team Spain with pleasure and much pride.” Thus the continental bronze of length jumping When Marca asks him to appear at the Spanish fans, he may not yet have him at the radar despite his recent success in Appealorn.
A championship in which Lescay debuted as a Spanish after projecting, years ago, as one of the great promises of his specialty. Not in bucket, At just 16 years old, he was a youth world silver and with 18 he already jumped 8.28 meters. In 2022 he defected from the Cuban team after a competition in Belgrade and the rest is a story with numerous background, starting with his coach Luis Felipe Méliz.
Méliz was also born in Cuba and ended up defending Spanish interests, achieving a European outdoor silver in Helsinki 2012. “Méliz is like an engine for me. He and (Joan) Lino- Olympic Bronze in Athens 2004- are people who inspire me because when you see their trajectories you think: 'If they could why not me?'. Then I have been lucky to achieve a medal in my first competition as Spanish, ”says Lester.
What I am taking most is health to reach the Tokyo World Cup in optimal conditions because when you are well, whatever it is
A bronze with which few had because the facsa beaches athlete of Castellón He competed on March 7 in Aldoorn with his foot infiltrated by an injury he had been dragging for weeks. “They are circumstances of life. You cannot always wait for the road to be clear and sometimes you have to solve with what you have,” Lescay explains with their eternal Caribbean smile.
Lester Lescay for a jump in the end of the length of the European Indeor of Apeldoorn.
“Many people said that I went to the European of Apeldoorn touched and without having jumped eight meters but what those people did not know is that I was focused on that championship. Talent we have all who are going to a great competition but health adds you confidence and there may be the difference”, He adds about that first great joy as Spanish.
I love jumping with Tentoglou and Furlani because rivalry is always positive. In Rome we compete together and that subtracts you pressure because you know them well. I hope to help the team in the European teams and look for a good brand
Almost four months later the sequelae of the injury have disappeared. “Now I am very good although sometimes the head plays bad passes. You feel a discomfort in training and you worry but in the end it is nothing. What I am taking care of is health to get in optimal conditions to the Tokyo World Cup because when you are well, whatever is happening. ”
A lot of prestige rivals in Vallehermoso
An appointment in which it will have rivals like Greek Miltiadis tentoblou y el Italian Mattia calfanigold and bronze respectively at the Paris 2024 games and present this Saturday in the moor of the length of Vallehermoso as rivals in the European teams.
“I love jumping with them because rivalry is always positive. In Rome we compete together and that subtracts you pressure because you know them well. I hope to help the team and look for a good brand,” explains Lescay, who lives halfway between Castellón and Guadalajara.
In the great championships, metals are always above 8.20 and with 8.30 you must be a medal in the Tokyo World Cup
“Guadalajara is a strategic site to concentrate and stay focusedand more on the track where we work with so many elite athletes, ”says Lester, who does not dare to predict what jump you can get on the podium in the Tokyo World Cup.
“What do I know … in the 2020 Tokyo Games, a medal was taken with 8.21 meters and in the 2023 Budapest World Cup, with 8.27. And who was going to think that in Appealorn was going to win with 8.13. In the great championships, metals are always above 8.20 and with 8.30 you must be a medal, ”reflects our protagonist.
Not competing in three years, returning and jumping 8.24 is worth admiring. That speaks of his great talent. If he proposes and continues to do things as now he will surely be in Tokyo fighting for the medals
A championship in which it could be Juan Miguel Echevarría. The great Cuban star, the man called to break the nine meter barrier after his spectacular emerge He has returned to the pit after three years blank and works in Guadalajara under the orders of Iván Pedroso.
“Not competing in three years, returning and jumping 8.24 is worth admiring. That speaks of his great talent. If he proposes and continues to do things as now he will surely be in Tokyo fighting for the medals,” Lescay concludes.
