Torrent vibrated yesterday with the best national athletics during the first day of the absolute open-air Spanish Championships, which left the first two medals for the Valencian delegation, and the record for the championships and for Spain under-23, with the youngest champion in history in 3,000 meter hurdles.
Marta Serrano, a 20-year-old from Madrid from the Valencia Athletics Club and daughter of the legendary coach Antonio Serrano, whose pupils took the podium, became the star of the first session on the slopes of the Parc Central Ciutat de l’Esport. She with 9: 26.35 she established a new record of the championships and, in addition, record of Spain under-23.
Other champions were Aleix Pi in pole vault, Laura Redondo in hammer, Carlos Tobalina in weight and Ouassim Oumaiz in 5,000 meters, a test in which Thierry Ndikumwenayo, the recently nationalized athlete trained by José Ortuño at Playas de Castellón, had to settle for the second position in the absence of Katir. The athlete born in Burundi was the second medal of the day for the FACV after Gema Martí’s bronze in the hammer.
Marta Serrano, bronze at the U23 European Championships two weeks ago in Espoo (Finland), lowered the absolute minimum for the Budapest World Cups in August, after a spectacular race in which she alternated in the lead with the veterans Carolina Robles and Irene Sánchez-Escribano at a hellish pace that took down Robles at the end, bronze in the end.
Ndikumwenayo had been waiting for a day like yesterday for many years, since his arrival in Alicante before the pandemic. He left happy with the silver medal in his debut, in which he explained that he accused a lot of humidity recently arrived from Sierra Nevada.
Oussaim Oumaiz won with 13:49.84. No one could beat him, not even Ndikumwenayo, who just a few days ago signed the second best Spanish record of all time. «I know I’m fine, I’ve done a perfect preparation, but today I couldn’t win. These tactical races are like that. I wanted to win because I was racing at home, but this first medal is good. My main objective is the World Cup and I will be there fully. I am happy for this first medal », he explained afterwards.
Much happier, despite the fact that she lost silver on Natalia Sánchez’s last throw of 63.52, was Gema Martí. The athlete from Gandia, third in the hammer final (62.97), was on the podium for the first time in an absolute. “I am very happy with the performance. It’s my first medal.”
In the hammer final, a classic such as Osarumen Odeh, who was fourth, fell off the podium, and Ainhoa Gimeno finished seventh. Among the 14 finals of the second day of this Saturday, the men’s triple and the women’s length stand out, with Valencian applicants.
Marta Serrano celebrates her record for Spain under-23, and championship record, and also the absolute minimum for the World Cup in Budapest
2023-07-28 21:30:22
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