The Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, in the 100 meters, the Spanish Ana Peleteiro, in the triple jump, the Swiss Jason Joseph in the 110 hurdles and the French Gabriel Tual, in the 800, are the main protagonists of the Madrid Meeting held at the Vallehermoso stadium, which belongs to the World Athletics silver circuit.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Five-time world champion in the 100 meters, he arrived in Madrid as a star and the public of Vallehermoso gave him one of the ovations of the night. The Jamaican didn’t give any of his rivals an option and won with 10.83 -rally record- his second race of the season after winning just two days ago in Lucerne (Switzerland) with 10.82. In the Spanish capital he did it a hundred slower in a race he completely dominated.
The Spanish Jael Bestuewith 11.10, a personal best and the third best Spaniard of all time, finished second and showed that his progress is increasing.
The Spaniards in the triple jump Ana Peleteirobronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, claimed the victory with a score of 14.15, her best record of the season in her fourth competition after her reappearance on June 14, six months after becoming a mother.
Peleteiro, trained by the Cuban Ivan Pedroso, started the competition with a jump of 13.98, followed by a best jump of 14.15, with a favorable wind of +0.6. In the third he took a chance and made it null. In the fourth, he again exceeded fourteen meters (14.01), in the fifth he resigned and in the sixth, already having won, he again made a null.
One of the most anticipated races, the men’s 800 meters, resulted in the victory of Gabriel Tualwho stopped the clock in 1:44.46 and surprised the national idol, Adrián Ben, current European indoor champion, who finished third in 1:44.72, the season mark.
“I’m happy with the sensations of the race. The pace was good, I felt good and I finished at the end”, said Ben.
In the 110 meter hurdles the Swiss Jason JosephEuropean indoor champion in the 1960s, had a personal best with a time of 13.10, ahead of Frenchman Wilhelm Belocian (13.20) and Spanish Quique Llopis (13.35), who finished third with his best mark of the season, although he fell short of 13.28, giving him a direct ticket to the World Cup in Budapest.
“The sensations were very good. In the middle of the race I swallowed a fence, I braked, they caught me but I solved it as best I could. I want to recover the sensations on the track after what happened on the inner track but I am very happy. I think I can give a little more, but without rushing and improving every day,” said Llopis.
the Kenyan boy Brenda Chebet He won the 1,500 meters effortlessly by stopping the clock in 4:01.85, less than a second ahead of the second, Ethiopian Saron Berhe (4:02.30). Polish Sofia Ennaoui, bronze medalist at the last European Championship in Munich, finished fourth with 4:03.68.
800 women were awarded by Ethiopian Worknesh Mesele with 1:58.75, the best mark of the season, after a race in which Spaniard Lorea Ibarzabal showed her progress, finishing third in 1:59.88, a personal best.
“I am very happy. The great barrier of two minutes has cost me lowering it but doing it at home, in Madrid, makes me very happy. The Spanish Championship in Torrent is the goal of the season, I want the first medal outdoors, and that’s what I think about,” confessed Ibarzabal.
the jamaican megan tapper, The bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, flew on the green track of Vallehermoso to win the 100 hurdles with 12.69, only five hundredths less than the American Tonea Marshall (12.74).
the finnish Ella Junila, with a mark of 1.90 meters, she won the high jump, the American Anna Cockrell, with 53.79, won the 400 hurdles, and the Romanian Bianca Florentina Ghelber, with 73.80, won the hammer throw, a test where the Spanish record holder Laura Redondo remained at 68.95.
In the shot put, the veteran Carlos Tobalinaon his Vallehermoso debut at age 37, finished seventh with 20.30 meters, in a race won by Jamaican Rajindra Campbell with 22.22, the rally record.
The Italian Claudio Stecchi He won the pole vault final with a record 5.82, a personal best, ten centimeters more than Greek Emmanouli Karalis, while in the javelin Moldovan Andrian Mardare won with a throw of 81.49 meters.
Source: La Verdad
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