En este momento estás viendo Juan Miguel Echevarría returns to the jumping box
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Juan Miguel Echevarría returns to the jumping box

He will be at a meeting next Sunday in the Portuguese city of Pombal, in the Challenger category of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2025.

CUBAN Juan Miguel Echevarría is among the long jumpers confirmed for the Moniz Pereira Indoor Athletics Meeting in Portugal, which will mark his competitive return as a member of the national team.

The organisers of the meeting, which will be held in the city of Pombal next Sunday, announced Echevarría’s presence through his Instagram account.

Thus, the runner-up of the speciality at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be the main attraction of an event in which the Spaniard Eusebio Cáceres, fourth in that event and medallist in other international competitions, will also compete.

Juan Miguel will now take on his first official competition on Portuguese soil since his presentation under the five rings in the Japanese capital, with which he closed a cycle marked by the access to the podium in outdoor and indoor world competitions, as well as the crowning at the Pan American Games in Lima 2019.

With a personal best of 8.68m -although he reached 8.82m with a wind at his back, the Camagüey native requested his release from the national team in 2022.

Two years later, he decided to return to represent Cuba under the orders of the once-stellar Iván Pedroso, a condition he maintains, as confirmed by JIT with the Cuban King Sport federation.

That announcement was made months before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, an event she was unable to attend, as she did not achieve an optimal state of preparation in such a short time to reach the minimum qualifying mark.

His return to the jumping podium in a Challenger event of the World Athletics Indoor Tour 2025 could boost his reinsertion in the elite of the speciality, currently dominated by the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou and other figures with impressive progression, such as the Italian Mattia Furlani.

Cuba will also have its main triple jump exponents in the so-called winter tour: Leyanis Pérez, Liadagmis Povea, Lázaro Martínez and Andy Hechavarría.

They will be joined by long jumper Alejandro Parada and Hayla González, sprinter Reynaldo Espinosa and high jumper Luis Enrique Zayas.

Leyanis, Povea and Espinosa will perform on 31 January in Miramas, France, according to the schedule announced by the country’s top athletics authorities.

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