Spain going to European Throwing Cup on March 9 and 10 at Leiria (Portugal) with a team consisting of fifteen athletes, including Carlos Tobalina and Manuel Quijeracontinental champion in the last edition, and Belén Toimilnational weight record holder.
Spain hopes to repeat in Leiria the success achieved last year in the European Throwing Cup, where the men’s team was declared continental champion for the first time in history.
The selector José Peiro has pre-selected fifteen athletes (eight men and seven women) after meeting the criteria established by the RFEA sports management.
In the men’s team that made history in 2023, in the edition also held in the Portuguese town of Leiria, two of the members are repeating. One is the twelve-time champion of Spain Carlos Tobalina in the shot put and the other is a seven-time national javelin champion Manuel Quijera in the javelin, certainly the two athletes who scored the most points for Spain last year.
Tobalina has thrown 19.99 meters on two occasions this season and will attend the event accompanied by the weight of the current Spanish indoor champion. Jose Angel Pinedowho went up to 20:06 – a personal best – in Orense and returned to the European Throwing Cup three years later.
Quijera arrives with his third European mark of the year after throwing 79.96 meters in Pamplona and will also be joined in Leiria by Pablo Costaswho in his first year as a senior already sent the javelin 72.33 meters.
The men’s team is completed by two current Spanish outdoor discus and hammer champions, Diego Casas and Alberto Gonzálezwho this year threw 62.17 and 69.25 meters, respectively.
The female quartet includes two Spanish record holders, the Galician Belén Toimil by weight and the Catalan Laura Redondo with the hammer.
Toimil was in top form after winning the Spanish Indoor Championship and then threw 18.38 meters in the Czech Republic, the tenth European mark of the year, while Laura Redondo was proclaimed Spanish winter long throw champion after sending the hammer 65.84 meters in Jaén .
The current Spanish outdoor discus and javelin champion, June Kintana and Arantza Morenocomplete the women’s team.
In addition, five sub-23s will compete in Spain in Leiria: Inés López in the weight, Marcos Moreno and Daniela Fernández in the discus, Juan Jiménez in the hammer and Paula Rodríguez in the javelin.
Source: La Verdad
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