Athletics - 2019 European Indoor Athletics Championships - Emirates Arena, Glasgow, Britain - March 1, 2019 Spain's Maria Vicente in action during the women's pentathlon long jump REUTERS/Andrew Boyers
MADRID (Reuters) - A long jumper was reduced to tears when officials mistakenly erased her mark after a leap that could have brought her a gold medal at the Spanish athletics championships on Sunday.
Maria Vicente, 19, appeared to have recorded a distance above 6.50 metres with her first leap but the mark was rubbed out by two officials in the pit, who believed she had fouled.
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