Spanish Nobility MechaalEuropean record holder in the 3,000-meter indoor track, suffered in the last meters before securing a fourth place in the second series (7.52.27) a place in the final of the Indoor World Athletics Championships which were inaugurated this Friday at Stark Arena of Belgrade.
The day was positive for the Spanish team, which managed to place in four of the finals that will be played on Saturday afternoon. In the classification of Mechaal are added those of Mariano Garcia and Alvaro Arriba, in the 800, and also that of Martha Perezin the 1,500, while Maribel Perez has fallen in the semifinals of the 60 meters (7.20), Bruno Hortelano stayed out in the semifinals of the 400 (46.76) Claudia Conte she finished sixth in the pentathlon, an excellent result in the test in which the Belgian Noor Vidts hung the gold. “I didn’t expect it, it’s a big surprise,” he said Conte who finished with 8.62 in 60 hurdles, 1.83 in height, 12.73 in weight, 6.13 in length and 2.15 in 800.
Firm options in the 800
Mechaal he has had to suffer to get through. He has come out in the tail of the group, next to the favorite, the Ethiopian Selemon Baregaand halfway through the race he took the trail of the African, who carried him to the head with six laps to go.
Mariano Garcia and Alvaro de Arriba they will be in the fight for the medals in the final of 800 meters after solving with great authority the complicated hurdle of the series, which only classified the first two of each, without replay.
After the surprise of the absence of one of the big favorites, the British Elliot Gillesin the second series, Mariano García he came out on top in the second with the best world record of the year (1: 45.12) and has shaped his lead in a display of control from the start shot to the finish line. The Murcian has taken the lead in the group, has passed the 400 in 54.90 and in the second half has changed every time the Belgian Eliott Crestan I was trying to get ahead of him. In the final straight he had more strength to open more space before winning with a time of 1: 48.32.
Marta Pérez’s doublet
The Soria athlete Martha Perez has today achieved the first goal of the double challenge set at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade by qualifying for the 1,500 final just seven hours before the direct 3,000 final, in which he won the Ethiopian Lelem Hailu (8.41.82) and finished 16th (8.57.75).
In the classification of 1,500Marta has settled into the center of the group, at the pace set by the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay, and three laps from the end he placed third, the last place in the direct classification. When Tsegay left alone ahead, 600 from the end, there were five left behind to play the other two places. At the ringing of the bell March he was fifth, suffering, but has not collapsed. In fifth place, with 4: 10.09, it was enough to get into the medal fight.
The disqualification bill
In the return to the Spanish equipment in World-wide, four years later, Bruno Hortelanothe Spanish 400-meter indoor track champion, was eliminated in the semi-finals of this distance after finishing fourth, and his series ran down the worst street, number 1, with a mark of 46.76 seconds.
In the morning Bruno he had qualified for many conflicts with a mark of 46.49 which had given him one of the two places in the playoffs, but which has condemned him to run the semi-finals on the worst lane, the one with the tightest curves.
the sevillian Maribel Perez, 60-meter Spanish record holder, accused the disqualification – later revoked – in the semifinals of the World Indoor Championships and acknowledged that he was “very bad” after the incident, which caused him to lose concentration in the second outing and the he has “totally out of the race.”
His claim has been upheld by the judges, but the incident has taken its toll on him. “I told them it was 8th Street (the Swedish Claudia Payton), and let them look at the screen. And then you’re scared because you say, “How are you doing now?” “I was completely taken out of the race,” he said. “It simply came to our notice then. I listened to the Spaniards (from the stands) and in the end I went out for them. I said repeatedly, “Look, look, well, we’re all human, we all make mistakes, but that was clear.”