A Portuguese Agate Sousa This Sunday, March 22nd, he won the gold medal in the long jump at the World Short Track Athletics Championships. Thus, he repeats Naide Gomes’ feat, 18 years later. The games take place in Torun, Poland.
The 25-year-old Benfica athlete won the direct final with a jump of 6.92 meters, on her fifth attempt, becoming the second Portuguese medalist in the discipline, after national record holder Naide Gomes, champion in Valencia2008 and runner-up in Moscow2006 and Doha2010.
In his debut at the ‘indoor’ World Cups, Agate Sousa started the final with 6.73 meters and secured the triumph with 6.92 on the penultimate attempt, surpassing, in a consistent competition, still with tests at 6.82 and 6.81, the Italian Larissa Iapichino (6.87, in the last jump), European champion in indoor track, and relegating the Colombian Natalia Linares (6.80) to third place.
Agate Sousa, third place in the outdoor European Championship Rome2024, whose personal record is 7.03 meters achieved in 2023still from São Tomé, won Portugal’s 18th medal in the indoor track World Championships, the sixth gold medal and the first in the 21st edition, which ends today at Arena Torun, in Poland.
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