The Portuguese Liliana Cá did better than expected, with sixth place in the discus throw of the World Championships in Athletics, with 63.99 meters, admitting that she could have reached fourth place.
Liliana Cá, fifth in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, got her best shot of the year this Wednesday, in the fifth attempt of the final, behind the Dutch Jorinde van Kinken (64.97) and the German Claudine Vita (64, 24), fourth and fifth classified, respectively.
“I feel like I could have gotten to fourth place, but it’s harder for me to function, to be reactive, in the sun. In the winter I feel better, but from what I’ve done before, I think I’m having a great summer season,” explained the 35-year-old Barreiro’s natural pitcher.
The national discus record holder, with 66.40, equaled in Eugene, in the United States, the best national result in discus history, which was in possession of Teresa Machado, with the sixth position achieved in Athens 1997.
“It went well, it went very well, perhaps better than I expected, because after qualifying I was in pain and had to spend a whole day recovering to get to the final well and, thank God, everything went well” , he referred. to the Portuguese, who had assured her presence in the final with the 11th mark in the classification, she being the third play-off, with 61.41.
In Eugene 2022, Cá, who lamented the ‘jet lag’ felt on the trip from Oran, in Algeria, where he won the silver medal at the Mediterranean Games, started the test with 53.24 meters, improving to 63.64 , securing the last three throws – -then already in sixth place-, obtaining 63.99, before closing with 61.99 and a gap.
The Chinese Bin Feng was proclaimed world champion, with a score of 69.12, in her first launch, surprising the Croatian Sandra Perkovic, Olympic champion in London 2012 and Rio 2016, and the American Valarie Allman, gold medalist in Tokyo 2020, who finished in second and third position, with 68.45 and 68.30, respectively.
The Cuban Yamé Pérez, holder of the world title, did not go beyond seventh place, with 63.07.
