The incredible double feat of Latvian athlete Dmitrijs Serjogins at Allianz Jean Bouin is only available to selected

A movie story. The Latvian Dmitrijs Serjogins made history this past Sunday at 100 Allianz Jean Bouin. Not because of that fact win with authority the famous Open 10K test (29’42”)which really made him happy, because this year is the centenary edition of MD Athletic Classicbut as some time passed he dressed again to begin the international race which, as all signs indicated, the Spaniard clearly won. Mohamed Katir (29’25”) in the men’s category. Dmitrijs kept going strong to finish in a surprising fifth position (31’03”), in a day he will hardly forget.

If the preparation for a race is already difficult, the demand is highest if an athlete has to squeeze his body into a second race only five hours apart, more than anything else because he did not plan to turn to Allianz Jean Bouin. After winning the famous event, Serjogins could not hide his satisfaction for the success he achieved: “For me, winning the 100th edition of this race is something very special. “It’s a race with a lot of history and I’m very happy to win,” he told MD before heading to the podium ceremony.

After attending to the media and taking the necessary photos, the winner of the Open 10K ate some sandwiches in the VIP tent and had some sweets, but did not miss the details of the great athletics festival taking place a few meters away in Maria Cristina Avenue. Like another fan, Dmitrijs leans on the fence and follows the progress of the younger players with his big eyes, perhaps remembering his beginnings in a sport he has developed to the point of making a living from it. . “Look, my country is like this these days, full of snow,” he told this reporter, showing a picture of his hometown. Riga.

He was almost taken off the train to run the International

Tough in a thousand battles, and after achieving the goal for which he traveled to Barcelona, Dmitrijs Serjogins He returned to his beloved Lloret de Mar, where he likes to walk on the beach. “I will not run in the international race. He was going to go home to Lloret with me by car, but in order not to wait, he told me he was going to take the train. When I was at the station he called me Carlos Castillejo –Olympic athlete and responsible for recruiting athletes at Allianz Jean Bouin, and winner of almost every category at Allianz Jean Bouin, where he debuted as a child and where he now sees his children woman trying to follow in his footsteps –, he told me that he had sick leave and I should tell Dmitrijs if he can run. I quickly hung up. “I called him and he came back from the train station as fast as he could,” he told MD. José Luis Blanco, president of the La Sansi club where Dmitrijs runs and won, among others, the Dean’s 5k in 2013.

Blanco, who has seen them in all colors in the world of athletics, was amazed: “What Dmitrijs did was amazing. Never has a winner of the popular race done so well in the professional race, much less in the same year. Look, when I won the 5K in 2013 – half the distance that Dmitrijs first ran this Sunday – I tried it at the International and almost died in 17th.”

But four days ago, Dmitrijs Serjogins Not only did she overcome the double challenge, but she didn’t look too tired either, excited about the fact of running in the same race with Katir, runner-up in the 5,000m world and this year’s European distance record holder, as well as the winner of double dean, 2021 and 2023.

He was given a hero’s welcome after a few hours in Lloret de Mar, his second home for 15 years. This paradise was discovered by Costa Brava for about 15 years and they live there during the colder months, where he trains a group of athletes, while also training and participating in all the races he can. A six-time champion of his country and two national indoor champions, in September he was proclaimed Latvian half marathon champion and in Spain he achieved such outstanding achievements as in Mitja Marató Ciutat de Palma Last March – his 4th victory in the event – the Sant Antoni course in January, which he already won in 2022, the year in which he won the El Corte Inglés courseamong an extensive list of sporting achievements.

Dmitrijs Serjogins He lives for athletics. He loves countless sports – such as cross-country skiing, martial arts, football or basketball, which he does not do to preserve his physical integrity, which feeds him and his family – and he serves ambassador with the Latvian athletes who choose Lloret de Mar as a place of training, whom he helps and advises in whatever way he can, acting, we can say, as an assistant. And among them was his young countryman Agate Caune (19 years old), one of the athletes of the moment who continues to cause excitement. The athlete of Valmiera achieved double gold, in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters, in U20 European Championshipand in Silesian Diamond LeagueHe clocked 8:3.78 in the 3,000 meters, and 15:12.94 in the 5,000 meters. Karlsruhe (Germany).

Today, despite the cold weather, Dmitrijs Serjogins He will return to the training routine at the municipal athletics tracks of Lloret de Mar, where his wife can accompany him. Katija Valterealso an athlete, who cannot compete with Allianz Jean Bouin this past Sunday while staying in the care of her 15-month-old daughter ElsaIf not, who knows, maybe the marriage will come out of the shoulders of Montjuicas they did in March of this year when they both won the Mitja Marató Ciutat de Palma (Balearic Islands).