MADRID, 21 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish athletes Lorea Ibarzabal and Adrián Ben have confirmed this Friday their respective minimum marks for the Olympic Games in Paris (France) in separate 800 meter events, after their good performance in the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Madrid, a category B meeting for the International Athletics Federation and held at the Vallehermoso Stadium with 6,824 spectators in the stands.
The day began with the javelin competition, won by the Polish Marcin Krukowski thanks to a best throw of 81.90 meters; The Moldovan Andrian Mardare (2nd) and the Romanian Alexandru Mihaita Novac (3rd), with respective marks of 81.47 m and 81.30 m, prevented the Spanish Manu Quijera (79.58) from getting on the symbolic podium of this rally.
The activity on the tartan started with the unique finals of the 400 m hurdles. In the men’s category, the best Spaniard was Sergio Fernández with his third place (49.20), being surpassed by the momentum shown in the finish line by the Qatari Abderrahman Alsaleck (47.97), who there also surpassed the Frenchman Wilfried Happio (48.01).
In the women’s race, Sara Gallego did her MMT in 56.81, having recently returned to the slopes after a year of injury; That mark earned her fifth place, just behind the also Spanish Daniela Fra (56.13), although without beating the Bahraini Kemi Adekoya (53.90), the Australian Alana Yukich (55.15) or the Norwegian Line Kloster (55.38). .
Then came the women’s 400m, whose final B was won by Blanca Hervás from Madrid with 51.68 (MMP) in a comeback to surpass the Latvian Gunta Vaicule (51.81), thanks to the support of the local public. Next, in the A final, the Belgian Naomi van den Broeck narrowly beat the Irish Sharlene Mawdlesy (50.80 vs 50.82).
The focus of the final B in the men’s 400 was on Óscar Husillos, who finished third (46.08); The British Alex Haydock-Wilson won, with 45.62, and second was the Portuguese Omar Elkhatib, with 45.78. In the A final the Argentine Elian Larregina won with 44.93, a new record for his country, and second was the Dutch Liemarvin Bonevacia (45.07).
Vallehermoso vibrated with the debut in this outdoor campaign of Mariano García, world indoor and European outdoor gold in 2022. With Pablo Sánchez-Valladares acting as a hare for almost 500 meters, García was then last; However, ‘La Moto’ reacted in the final 200 curve and squeezed fuel until crossing the lead in 1:45.26.
Meanwhile, the weight contest ended with the victory of the Saudi Mohamed Daouda Tolo; His best throw of 21.81 meters was a new Asian record. He slightly disappointed the sixth place of the Spanish Carlos Tobalina, whose best throw was 20.02 meters. In addition, the Jamaican Rajindra Campbell was missed, absent ‘in extremis’.
Then the Spanish triplet stood out in the B final of the 200m, with the victory of Juan Carlos Castillo (20.84) ahead of Daniel González (20.99) and Adrià Alfonso (21.03). But the highlight was the A final due to the presence of the South African Wayde van Niekerk, who took the victory in 20.29 and beat his compatriot Akani Simbine (20.38).
In the short hurdles event, the British Cindy Sember won the A final of the hectometer with a time of 12.76, ahead of the Italian Giada Carmassi (12.91) and the Dutch Maayke Tjin-A-Lim (12.93). In the 110 m A final, the highly applauded victory of the Spanish Quique Llopis by three hundredths (13.21 vs 13.24) over the Italian Lorenzo Simonelli.
Later it was the turn of the flat hectometer, where the Ivorian Arthur Cissé won in the final A thanks to a mark of 10.14; The German Owen Ansah finished second (10.21) and the Dane Simon Hansen finished third (10.23), both just ahead of the Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut and the Spanish Abel Jordan, separated by one hundredth of a second (10.25 vs 10.26).
JAËL BESTUÉ SHINES
In those same 100 meters, Jaël Bestué continued her good form by taking the women’s A final with a time of 11.19. At the same time, the attention of the Madrid stadium had gradually settled on the Galician Ana Peleteiro, a brand new gold medalist in the outdoor triple jump during the European Championships held in Rome (Italy).
However, Peleteiro began his contest with a null that did not predict a peaceful afternoon-night, in search of optimizing his preparation for those Olympic Games. from Paris. In her second jump the Galician reached 14.36 m, in the third she failed again and in the next two she fell short (14.31 m and 14.05 m), risking everything on the last attempt.
At the same time, in the other contest that was still going on, the Canadian Camryn Rogers shone in the women’s hammer; 77.76 m and lead for her in her second launch, more than enough to be ahead of the British Anna Purchase (2nd, 71.79) and the Norwegian Beatrice Llano (3rd, 69.91), both far from the Spanish Laura Redondo (8th, 67.26 m).
As the end of the day approached, the women’s 1,500 meter event took center stage. The British Melissa Courtney-Bryant won with 4:03.50, ahead of the Spanish Esther Guerrero (4:04.20) and Águeda Marqués, who crossed the finish line in 4:04.58 and was just eight hundredths away from the minimum mark of the RFEA for Paris 2024.
Less disappointment was that Peleteiro, in her sixth and last attempt, could not pass the Frenchman Ilionis Guillaume, winner of this Madrid Meeting with her best jump of 14.39 m; and with a record of 14.10 m, the Turkish Tugba Danismaz took third position.
The main Spanish joy was that Lorea Ibarzabal (6th, 1:59.80), Lorena Martín (9th, 2:00.33) and Daniela García (11th, 2:00.68) achieved respective minimum marks for the Olympic Games in the A final of 800 meters. OO., after a race with victory for the Australian Catriona Bisset in 1:59.17.
And to close this rally, in the same way in 800 meters, Adrián Ben finished second in the men’s A final with a time of 1:44.41; Although the Belgian Eliott Crestan took the victory from him (1:44.28), the Galician improved the 1:44.70 that served as a reference for the Olympic minimum.
2024-06-21 21:21:40
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