Spain continues to party in Munich. There hasn’t been a day without a smile since the European began last Monday. There are already seven medals after mario garcia romo will be third in a final of 1,500 meters led by Jakob Ingebrigtsen to a hellish train, a save who can in which the man from Salamanca knew how to grit his teeth to secure the bronze in the midst of the Nordic prodigy, who at only 21 years old signed his second continental double after also winning the 5,000 final.
Ingebrigtsen did not find this time, as happened in Oregon, a Jake Wightman who will spoil his exhibition and won in 3:32.76. García Romo tried it, who followed the strategy that he had planned since he signed his ticket to the final. Follow the Norwegian and pray to come strong to the final stretch. The plan was not badly shot. Ingebrigtsen was in the lead from the first lap and set tremendous pace. The back of the pack was a spectacle. Little by little they were eliminating rivals. a sangria Among those fallen before their time, a Ignacio Fontes to which the pájara came to him in the absence of two laps. He was eleventh at the finish. best arrived Gonzalo Garciafrom less to more to finish sixth.
Ingebrigtsen passed the 400 in 56.34. And the 800 in 1:54. Times typical of a high-class rally that in the end left him without rivals. When the Norwegian entered the final straight he was already galloping alone. The last to resist was García Romo, always in the shadow of the champion, glued to the rope, clenching his teeth. But he had meters left over. Resisting the pace of the champion for so long made him lose even his elegant running and remain unchanged for the last hundred. There he was outclassed by Britain’s Jake Hayward, silver. If he resisted the arrival of the Italian Pietro Arese, who came in just twelve hundredths behind him, it was out of sheer courage. At that point Ingebrigtsen, also Olympic champion in this distance, was already celebrating his success without having lost his impeccable hairstyle. A talent worth studying yours.
The bronze, in any case, is a more than excellent loot for an athlete who had already caused a sensation in the last World Cup in Oregon. Then, in his international debut, he was on the verge of the bronze medal (he entered 30 hundredths of Katir), but beyond that he surprised by lowering his personal best by more than five seconds to leave it at 3:30.20 and become the third best Spaniard of all time over the distance, only surpassed by Fermín Cacho and himself Katir.
It’s time to celebrate, then, and that of García Romo (23 years old) will be a traveling medal, as is its owner. He will go to Villar de Gallimazo as soon as possible, the small town of Salamanca where the athlete grew up. There, along its dirt roads, surrounded by orchards, he began to run and learned the ethic of work and effort, which was instilled in him by his parents, a mason and cleaner. He also knew the importance of studying, in a small school that he shared with just a dozen other kids. Because Mario is a student of ten, literally. That was his final grade at school, later completed with the highest grade in Selectivity. He started Biotechnology in Salamanca, but the following year he wanted to follow in his brother Jaime’s footsteps and went to the University of Mississippi. There the closest thing was Chemistry, and although it was not his dream career, it assured him a place in the Ole Miss, one of the most powerful university athletic teams. Also there he will travel the medal. García Romo has very good friends and in the University’s trophy case he shows off the university title of the mile that the man from Salamanca achieved last March.
star in colorado
The last destination of the medal will be Boulder, in the state of Colorado. Since this summer that is the new home of the new European medalist. There, at 1,600 meters of altitude, is the headquarters of On Athletics, a new club that has begun to attract some of the most talented middle and long-distance athletes in the world. García Romo will work under Dathan Ritzenhein, a revered technician in the United States. The man from Salamanca, seasoned on the old Helmántico track, assures that he had never trained in such a professional way, and is convinced that his margin of progression is gigantic. If so, Spanish athletics will be in luck again.