The athlete Adel MechaalSpanish indoor 1,500 meter record holder, finished the race in fourth place. Torun Copernicus Cup (Poland)corresponding to the golden inner track circuit of World Athleticsawarded to the double world champion, the Ethiopian Samuel Tefera.
Adel Mechaal, who does not have an indoor record in 2024, ran his first distance race in Torun, where he was fourth with a time of 3:35.53, well off his distance record (3:33.28) in a indoor track.
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Tefera, the big favourite, won a race in which the Spaniard achieved the minimum for the Indoor World Championships by distance.
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The winner is Samuel Teferawho stopped the clock in 3:34.61, after joining the slipstream of two hares in the competition and leading the last lap two hundred meters ahead of his compatriot Biniam Mehary (3:34.83), second, and the South African Thepo Thissite ( 3:35.06), third.
This is Mechaal’s first race of the week, which he intends to run this Wednesday in Valencia and on Saturday the 10th in the Lievin rally (France).
The disciple of Antonio Serrano, with this 3:35.53, achieved the lowest World Athletics for Glasgow Indoor World Championships (Scotland).
In the same meeting, the Italian of Cuban origin Andy Diaz He achieved victory by achieving a triple jump mark of 17.61 meters, the meeting record, personal best and new leader of the year.
Andy Díaz, double winner of the Diamond League, started the tournament with a jump of 17.25 meters and in the second he reached 17.61, giving the rest of the attempts, confident of a possible victory with his score.
Of the other contestants, none came close to that mark. Italian Tiago Pereira was second, finishing in 17.02, and Algerian Yaser Triki third with 16.93.
At 3,000 meters, the Ethiopian Selemon Barega, world champion of the distance, won the Torun race with great dominance by achieving a time of 7:25.82, making him the world leader of the year and the rally record. His compatriot Getnet Wale was second (7:26.73).
In the women’s 1,500 meters the winner is the Ethiopian Freweyni Hailu, who at a very high level of racing set the best world record of the year with a time of 3:55.28. Second was his countryman Diribe Welteji (3:55.47) and third was Ethiopian Hirut Meshesha (3:56.47), both in their personal bests.
The world runner-up in the 3,000 hurdles, Kenyan Beatrice Chepkoech, was fifth in 4:01.17.
The two speed events, the 60 meters, were won by the British Jeremiah Azu (6.57) and the Polish Ewa Swoboda (7.01).
Source: La Verdad
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