« on: June 28, 2008, 08:49:37 AM »
Cuba's illustrious athletics history is dotted with great 800m runners. Everyone remembers the two-time world record holder Alberto Juantorena – now an IAAF Council Member - in the late 1970s, historians will point to the 1975 Pan American Games champion Luis Medina and Noberto Tellez, who won a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Championships in Athletics, also made a considerable mark in second half of the 1990s.
Now, Yeimar Lopez can add his name to the list in the wake of his astounding 1:43.07 run in the Spanish city of Jerez on Tuesday night (24).
His run moved him up to second in the 2008 season's list, behind the 1:42.69 clocked by Sudan's Abubaker Kaki at the ÅF Golden League meeting in Oslo earlier this month, in what is starting to look like it could be a vintage year for runners over two laps of the track.
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