2023-07-12 04:15:00
Pablo Jeremías turned 17 yesterday and to celebrate he gave away a gold medal in discus throwing and a bronze medal in weight in the Spanish Under-18 Championship held throughout this weekend on the Gijón track in Las Mestas. Pablo received yesterday as an added gift the call for him to be part of the Spanish team of the category that will compete next week in Portugal.
With the last name Jeremías, the genes of athletics, and especially of throwing, are innate. And it is that he is the son of Ramón Jeremías, considered the best Asturian pitcher of all time, international and regular medalist in the Spanish Championships. An example is that his is the regional weight record with 17.86 meters since 1995. In the medium term, Pablo aims to snatch it away. And his father is looking forward to it.
Pablo had his first contact with athletics when he was only four years old. “I have a brother who did it and he was curious to know what that was. Soon I began to train more seriously with José Antonio Rosal, who had already been my father’s coach. I tried everything, although at 8 years old I already I liked the album very much and I came to Las Mestas to try to launch. I didn’t have a license or anything, but I started like that”, he recounts to continue: “I also tried jumping, which was what my brother did, but in the end I opted for the throws. I managed to make the minimum weight for a Spanish championship without training. The truth is that nothing went well for me because I did everything null. That’s when my father told me to stop trying things and to decide on one in concrete and that’s when I decided on pitches”.
It was Ramón Jeremías himself who put him in contact with the man who is still his coach at the Covadonga Group, Manuel Ángel Toral. “In the first year with Toral I was already third in Spain with a pitch of 15.68. In three months he taught me the spinning technique. The truth is that I learned quite quickly.” Pablo is clear that “the technique is very important because no matter how much strength you have, you have to have control. You have to gradually acquire the technique before the strength”. At the moment, the man from Gijón combines disc and weight: “Because of my constitution now, I see myself more in disc, but I like weight a lot too.” He believes that his record and weight records “are even, but it seems to me that the weight record is more difficult than the record.”
“My first objective is to take away the Asturias sub-20 record from my father, who also has it. It is my next category and the ball is already six kilos, so we will have to work to gain muscle mass,” he says. The young pitcher wants to start training now with the six-kilo ball, although he still has the rest of the year left in his category. “I think the season will be over, so I want to get hold of the six-kilo ball,” he abounds.
Ramón Jeremías is “proud” of the evolution his son is having: “I think he is training in the right place. At the moment it is not necessary for him to move to another province, I hope he can continue here for many years.” Ramón is clear that athletics is not a living. “It’s a hobby, although I take it very seriously and it implies a personal commitment to certain objectives,” he admits.
“I’m looking forward to someone taking my record, of course, if he can be much better,” says Ramón, who believes that holding the weight record since 1995 means that “there is no dedication, no commitment, it is necessary for the institutions to bet more for the sport. Most of the coaches don’t get paid, they do it for the fans and the kids also need some incentive, even if it’s not monetary, but at least some recognition”. For Ramón, “athletics also needs to be given a twist to win the show. In addition, the throws are a bit like the ugly duckling of athletics. I think we have to seek to give more show in competitions in general. You can’t come to a Spanish Championship and that you spend three days watching tie after tie in practically all the tests. They would have to be direct finals because it is very difficult for the public to endure so many hours. Even the families of the athletes when theirs has just competed They go without seeing other different tests”.
Ramón Jeremías remembers that “I saw quite a few people with the possibility of taking my record, but for one thing or another in the end they deflate”. An example of the difficulty of attracting practitioners for the throws is given by Pablo: “In my group, there are three of us who train seriously, then there are some more who go from time to time, but they don’t go with a competitive desire.”
Taking advantage of the success, both Ramón and Pablo call for them to improve the launching area of the Las Mestas covered module. “There isn’t a specific area, let’s say. There’s a circle in front of a wall that’s just over 13 meters away, but I throw 17 and I’m breaking that wall. We’d still have to put up an area with a net or something like that,” he says. Pablo.
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