Cuban Jumper Echavarria in the Muller Anniversary Games

Cuban male long jumper Juan Miguel Echavarria will join the farewell to British athletics legend Greg Rutherford during the 2018 edition of the Muller Anniversary Games in the London Stadium on July 21 and 22.

Echevarria will join other atletes, such as 2016 Olympic Champion Jeff Henderson (USA) and outdoors current World Champion Luvo Manyonga (South Africa), in a competition that will serve as a farewell to Greg Rutherford, who is the 2012 Olympic Champion since the edition in London.

Echevarria, the revelation of Cuban athletics, and number one of the 2018 world ranking will star another competition against Manyonga, who has seen how the Cuban jumper has taken the ranking for surprise.

In March, Juan Miguel took the gold medal in the World Indoor Championship, beating Manyonga, and since then he has continued to take bigger and bigger jumps.

During the stoppage of the Diamond League in Stockholm, held earlier this month, Echavarría stretched to 8.83 meters, the longest jump since 1995 in any condition.

The record could not be homologated in the record books when carried out with wind in favor of 2.1 meters per second, one tenth over what was admitted.

A week later in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Echevarría was again impressive when anchoring his spikes at 8.66 meters.

If the Cuban continues in this way it is likely that the world record of Mike Powell of 8.95 meters, dating from 1991, will be broken.