Two medals to begin with, although not the ones that their protagonists would have really wanted. spain He has opened the European Athletics with two team podium positions in the bronze marathon events for boys and silver for girls, although he was left without individual prizes. Who was closest was Ayad Lamdassen. The veteran athlete based in Lérida (40 years old) arrived in the front group at the final two kilometers, ready to play for medals with two Germans (Petrus and Ringer) and two other Israelis (Ayale and Teferi). And there his body said enough. He had prepared the European Championship with care, after improving his national record last February (2:06:25) and having given up the World Cup in Oregon to arrive in full form. But it was not enough. The unbeatable sensations that he had left throughout the test, always in the front positions and even attacking to line up the peloton and eliminate rivals, were not reflected when it really matters. In the end, the man from Sidi Ifni crossed the finish line in sixth position, also surpassed by Frenchman Nicolas Navarro. The gold was taken in extremis by the German Richard Ringer, who like Lamdassem seemed sentenced in the last kilometer. His courage and the fainting of Teferi, silver, and Petrus, bronze, worked the miracle.
Spain consoled itself with the team bronze, behind, of course, Israel and Germany. Jorge Blanco was twelfth, bettering Daniel Mateo (14th) and Yago Rojo (15th).
Spain also showed its face in the women’s marathon, where it won the team silver medal, only behind Germany. Marta Gallimanand was the best classified, eleventh. Irene Pelayo (16th), Elena Loyo (18th) and Laura Méndez (32nd) gave the necessary points for that first metal.
The individual gold went to the Polish Aleksandra Lisowska, who crossed the finish line in 2:28:36, his personal best. The silver went to the Croatian Matea Parlov and the bronze went to the favorite, the Dutch Nienke Brinkman, in a tight final in which she defeated the German Miriam Dattke by inches.
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