Like a fado tune at the Poitiers international meeting

The “international” label attached to the Poitiers meeting since 2025 is really not overused. The tenth edition of the major departmental athletics meeting, still organized by the Vienna committee and contested this Saturday at the Rebeilleau stadium, proved it again with a prize list open to the world, as illustrated for example by the victory of the Cameroonian Heverge Kole Etame on 100 m in 11”20. And if there was also a food truck selling Lebanese food at the foot of a large grandstand which would have deserved to be more full, it was Portugal which was in the spotlight on the Rebeilleau track.

Two foreign national records

Because Jéssica Barreira initially did very well in the 100m hurdles. In addition to her victory ahead of Marine Jacob and the Belgian Angel Agwazie, the 29-year-old young woman improved her personal best over the distance (13”09) and set herself the new Portuguese record in the discipline by erasing from the shelves Isabel Abrantes’ 13”14 which dated August 13, 2000. And the The heptathlon specialist celebrated this properly by trying to cheer up the Poitevin public.