Sotomayor won the title after stopping the clocks at 50. 69 seconds, to overtake Indian Durgesh Kumar (50.81) and Kenyan William Mutunga (51.23), who won silver and bronze, in that order.

Meanwhile, Fabar found his strengths in his last attempt to claim the gold in triple jump with a 16.37 meter leap, a personal best.

He was followed by Chinese Haitao Fu (16.14) and the Bulgarian Georgi Tsonov (15.80), in that order, according to the Web site of the event.

Other Cuban competitors today included Daniel Cruz in the hammer throwing
event, where he finished seventh with a 62.32 meter shot in an event dominated by Chinese Binbin Liu, who won with a career-high 73.99 meters.

Cyprus Alexandros Porsanidis (70.30) and Hungarian Balazs Toreky (70.13), got the silver and bronze medals respectively.

These were the first two gold medals for Cuban in the athletics event at the Singapore Games since so far the Cuban aythletes had only won a silver, javelin thrower Lismania Muñoz.

The medals won today by Sotomayor and Fabares are the fourth and fifth gold medals of the Cuban delegation.

Previously the Cyv¡ban that had climbed to the top of the podium were gymnast Ernesto Vila, the pentathlete Leidy Laura Moya and canoeist Osvaldo Sacerio.