Ayad Lamdassem, sixth. /
Every marathon must be 42 kilometers and 195 meters. And yesterday, at the European Championships in Munich, this was very clear. Those final meters were key in a distance that gave Spain the first medals in this continental event. They arrived in the team classification and thanks to the second place of the women’s team and the third place of the men’s team.
In the women’s event, victory for the Polish Aleksandra Lisowska (2h28:36), with the Dutch Nienke Brinkman (winner of the Zegama-Aizkorri this year) third and with Marta Galimany as the best Spanish (11th). Elena Loyo from Alava was 18th. For teams only Germany could with Spain.
They were very exciting marathons, with tension and suffering until the end. Among the men, the German Richard Ringer, with a time of 2:10:21, went up until he almost won at the finish line, with the support of his audience, over Maru Teferi (Israel). The best Spaniard was Ayad Lamdassem (sixth with 2:10:52), who even attacked less than ten kilometers from the end to try to go it alone, but without being able to resist the final change of pace. Blanco was 12th, Mateo 14th and Rojo 15th. Israel won by teams, with Germany second and Spain third.
Úrsula Ruiz, tenth in weight
Úrsula Ruiz finished tenth in the weight final (17.86) which was won by the Dutch Schilder (20.24). Eusebio Cáceres and Héctor Santos (length), Pablo Torrijos and Marcos Ruiz (triple jump) and Mario García-Romo, Ignacio Fontes and Gonzalo García (1,500) made it to the finals of their tests.
