This Friday, December 1, the Spanish athletics team will face its penultimate competition of 2023. This will be 24 hour world cupheld in Taipei.
Five athletes make up the Spanish teamin a competition that starts at 3:00 am (Spain time) on Friday and ends 24 hours later, on December 2.
Ivan Penalba He leads the men’s quartet already in Taipei, after finishing fourth in the European 24-hour race in Verona in 2022. In the first and so far only edition of the 24-hour World Championship, held in Albi (France) in 2019, Penalba He was also the best in Spain, finishing in fifth position.
On both occasions, the Valencian surpassed the 270 kilometer barrier: he did 270,152 km in 2019 and 273,393 km in 2022. No Spaniard in history has run a greater distance in 24 hours than Penalba, when he completed 274,332 km in 2019.
With his teammates at this World Cup, the same Nicolás de las Heras as Francisco Mariano Martínez They were also at the European Championship in Verona: Martínez finished ninth with 264.975 km and De las Heras, 12th with 261.649 km. The latter also competed in Albi in 2019, although he did not have his best day and finished in 149th place. The debutante is Juan Maria Jimenezwhich comes from 12 o’clock.
In its part, Carmen María Perez He will also make his debut in an international 24-hour championship, although he was already 17th at the IAU 100 km World Championships in Berlin-Bernau with 7:47:14, a record that no other Spaniard has ever held that coped. This year it ran 24 hours at 199,027 km.
24 hour world cup
Choosing Spanish
1. Ivan Penalba
2. Nicolás de las Heras
3. Francisco Mariano Martínez
4. Juan María Jiménez
5. Carmen María Pérez
The IAU 24-hour World Cup promises the highest level of ultra-distance competition, despite the heat and humidity of Taipei, with the presence of two world record holders in the specialty: the Lithuanian Alexander Sorokinwhich completed 319,614 km by 2022, and the American Camille Herronwhich has run 270,116 km in 2019.
Source: La Verdad
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