Athletics I Spain progresses in Oregon with two bronzes and eight finalists

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The Spanish medal table goes from 39 to 41 metals in 16 editions and significantly improves the results in London 2017, no podiums, and Doha 2019, with a rare bronze of Orlando Ortega in 110 hurdles.

Of Joseph Marin a Mohamed Katir. The Olympian of Prat de Llobregat He was the first Spaniard to win a medal, a silver in the 50K walk, during the first World Cup, held in Helsinki in 1983. The last was Mo Katir and his valuable bronze in a 1,500m final with European dominance. The second metal for the Red Shirt Selection after the extraordinary third place of Asier Martínez in 110 hurdles.

The rojigualda medal table goes from 39 to 41 metals in 16 editions and significantly improves the results in London 2017, no podiums, and Doha 2019, with a rare bronze of Orlando Ortega in 110 hurdles. This time the loot is double and its protagonists have barely begun to shine. The gold is missing, a triumph like that of the walker Miguel Angel Lopez in Beijing-2015, the last of a total of six Spanish athletes who have climbed to the highest podium after almost four decades of World Cup competition: Massana, Bragado, Fiz, Anton, Niurka Montalvo and the aforementioned Murcian walker.

The march continues to brush against the crossbar, as in Doha and in Tokiohas not just scored but endures and adds finalists thanks to the results of Raquel González, Laura García-Caro at 35K and Alvaro Martin a 20K. Miguel Angel Lopez y Alvaro Lopez debuted yesterday in the new distance of the march, the 35K, which was dominated by the Olympic champion in 20K, the Italian Massimo Stano. The former world champion finished 10th and at least bettered the state record, because Marc Tur finalist in Tokiowas disqualified for accumulation of cards and Alvaro Lopez he dropped from the leading group in the first few laps. The victories for Spain have happened again inside the stadium, this time in the legendary Hayward Field. One of them, the celebrated fifth place in the 4×100 relay, dramatizes the progress of women’s athletics and the degree of excellence achieved in this case by the four Spanish sprinters.

THE MEDALISTS

Asier Martínez, Bronze in 110 hurdles

The 22-year-old Navarrese showed once again that he thrives in top competition and knows how to take advantage of the unexpected. His sixth place at the Olympic final in Tokyo was no accident. In the strange Eugene final, with six rivals instead of eight due to injury and no start for the second, he was able to complete the steeplechase of his life, 13.17 seconds, to climb to the podium, scoring the first medal and the first bronze in the Spanish box.

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Mohamed Katir, Bronze in 1,500

The runner from Mula, Murcia, got even for his Olympic disappointment in Tokyo and showed in Eugene that at 24 years old he seems ready to stay in the middle distance world championship. His third place in the 1,500m final, in a race under 3.30 minutes, makes him a worthy successor to the Abascals, Gonzalez, Cacho and the long etcetera of Spanish millers who have triumphed in this specialty over the last four years. decades.

THE FINALISTS

Mario García Romo, 4th in 1,500

Another Spanish middle-distance runner with a promising future. The man from Salamanca, a biotechnology student at the University of Mississippi, won the university degree in the United States and the Spanish championship, ahead of Katir. He arrived in Eugene with a record of 3.35 and leaves with five

second less in his personal best and an exhilarating fourth place, finalist in the World Cup organized by his host country.

Raquel González and Laura García-Caro, 5th and 6th running 35K

The two experienced Spanish walkers managed to add two consecutive finalist positions in the 35K. The athlete from Mataró, is consolidated with this result in the new distance, the 35K that replaces the 50K, as well as the lepera walker Laura garcía-Caro, specialist

so far at 10K on the track and 20K on the road.

Women’s 4×100 relay, 5th

Success and deserved celebration of the women of the Spanish short relay, with Sonia Molina-Prados, Jaël Bestué, Paula Sevilla and María Isabel Pérez, the quartet that got into the final only behind the United States in the semifinals, setting a new national record , 42.61 seconds, which they exceeded again in the final (42.58) to get fifth place, ahead of teams such as the British, Swiss and Italian, unapproachable until now for the Spanish sprinters.

Álvaro Martín, 7th running 20K

The 28-year-old athlete from Extremadura, European champion in Berlin-2018 and finalist in Tokyo, kept the type in a test dominated again by the

Japanese walkers who swept the Games. Martin endured and was once again among the best to add another finalist.

Eusebio Cáceres, 8th in the long jump

The jumper from Onil, Alicante, is back in another final and adds another finalist position, and there are three, in World Cups, plus a participation in another big one such as an Olympic final. The regularity of him jumping over 8 meters this year has led him to get eighth place with a jump to the limit of that distance.

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