Spain Athletics will attend the Glasgow Indoor World Championships

Spain Athletics will attend the World Indoor Championships, which will be held in Glasgow from March 1 to 3with an exciting team that includes international medalists, Spanish record holders and even a world leader.

At first, 11 athletes (five women and six men) is pre-selected for the World Cup after meeting the criteria established by the coach José Peiro and the Sports Directorate of the RFEA. A number that can be expanded to a maximum of 20 (13 women and seven men), as there are nine athletes who meet the RFEA criteria and can be classified by World Rankingwhich will be published by World Athletics in the coming days.

The world champion of 800 meters Mariano Garcia He will defend in Glasgow the title he won in Belgrade two years ago and comes to the event after winning the Spanish Championship with solvency and as fifth in the 2024 world ranking (1:45.50). The young man will join him for four laps. Mohamed Attaouirunner-up in Ourense and fourth in the world ranking with 1:45.49, where Glasgow will be his first Indoor World Championship.

With this there will be three World Cups for Adel Mechaalwho after being fifth and seventh in the 3000 meters in 2018 and 2022 has ‘stepped down’ to the 1500 m, an event in which he is the national record holder with 3:33.28, and in which he will be joined by the national mile record holder Mario García Romo. Mechaal just won the 1500-3000 m double in Ourense, and if he finally gets into this distance through the World Ranking, he will consider participating here with his coach, Antonio Serranoand the Sports Directorate of the RFEA.

The Spanish champion will compete in the women’s 1500 m Esther Guerrero, for whom Glasgow 2024 will be his first World Cup over the distance after competing at Birmingham 2018 in the 800 m. Will share proof with Martha Perezthe Spanish short track mile record holder, who will run in the 1500 meters for the third consecutive Indoor World Cup (although in Belgrade 2022 he will double up in the 3000 m).

Fourth in 2022, Asier Martinez He will once again compete alongside the best 60 meter hurdles specialists. The European champion and world bronze medalist in the 110 m hurdles reached his best level in the short event this season: with 7.49, one hundredth of a second behind the Spanish record and 11th in the world ranking of the year. The national record holder will accompany him in the test Quique Llopiswhich comes in progress after being runner-up to Spain in Ourense with the best score on the course, 7.58.

Maria Vicente He will compete in his first Indoor World Cup in the pentathlon, an event in which he is the world leader of the year with 4728 points. The national record holder will arrive in Glasgow in the best form of his life: not only did he destroy his personal best in the aggregate, but this winter he set personal bests in the 800 m (2:15.50), weight (13.84 ). m), height (1.80 m) and 60 m hurdle (8.06). In the last two he came from winning a medal at the Spanish Championship: bronze and gold, respectively.

The Spanish 60 meters champion completed the first preselection Jaël-Sakura Bestué and the national runner-up in the 60 m hurdles Xenia Benach. For Bestué, Glasgow 2024 will be his first Indoor World Cup after reaching the final at the European Championships in Istanbul in 2023, and he also comes after setting a personal best in Ourense: 7.18, the Spaniard’s second time ever. Benach will try to make up for his performance at Belgrade 2022, where he was disqualified for a no-start. He was the Spanish leader of the year with 8.02, one hundred off his best record.

Additionally, they can join the preselection in the coming days, depending on their classification in the World Ranking: Sergio Lopez Barranco and Maribel Perez at 60m, Eva Santidrian in 400m, Lorea Ibarzabal and Lorena Martín at 800m, Marta García and Águeda Marques at 3000 m, Fatima Diame in length and Ana Peleteiro in triples.