Athletics: Europe takes the best on the United States

Posted on September 10, 2019 at 9:45 pm

Marie Mahé

The United States – Europe track and field match finally turned to Europe's advantage on Tuesday in Minsk, Belarus. Opposite, the United States had a particularly decimated team. At the end of the first day, on Monday, Europe had already taken the lead in this duel and counted then 331 points against 304 for the Americans. In the end, the gap has steadily increased, and the Europeans eventually win by 725.50 points to 601.50 points. It must be said that the Old Continent had many leaders and stars in its ranks. Among the highlights of the day, Yuliya Levchenko of Ukraine won the women's championship with a new personal best of 2.02m at the expense of Russia's Mariya Lasitskene, unbeaten this summer and finally third with a jump to 1.98m.

On the triple jump, Pontvianne leaves with a pointed zero

Armand Duplantis or Ramil Guliyev, the reigning world champion in the 200m, also responded. Guliyev easily won the 200m with a time of 20''16 (no wind). The Spaniard Orlando Ortega won the 110m hurdles in 13''21 (+0.1), while the pitchers Johannes Vetter (Germany) javelin (90.03m) and Joanna Fiodorow (Poland) hammer (74.34m) ) also insured. At the pole, with 5.85m, the Swede Armand Duplantis has also brought back nine valuable points. French people were at the rendezvous. Ludvy Vaillant, who was close to the fall after hitting the last hurdle, finally took third place in the 400m hurdles in 49''20 and the race was won by the American Dave Kendziera in 48''99. For his part, the triple jumper Jean-Marc Pontvianne leaves with a zero, while the American Chris Benard won, in 17,01m (+0,4).