The nineteenth edition of Meeting of Ibero-American Athleticspart of the ‘World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze’, will come together on Tuesday, April 30 in Huelva until ten athletes with medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.
This classic competition will feature some of the greatest figures in world athletics this year in Emilio Martín Ibero-American stadium of the Andalusian city, the Huelva Provincial Council reported in a statement, specifying that, two weeks after their dispute, the well-known middle-distance and international athletes have confirmed their presence.
Norwegian is at 5,000 meters Narve Gilje Nordasworld bronze at 1,500 meters and twice dropped to 3 minutes and 30 seconds.
The Nordic will compete at the Paris Games in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meters and comes after winning the ‘World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid’ in February.
Among his rivals is the Kenyan Stanley Waithaka Mburuworld runner-up in the 10,000 meters at Oregon 2022, with personal bests of 13:05.19 in the 5,000 and 27:13.01 in the 10,000, and who is looking to qualify for what will be her first Olympic Games.
As for the Spaniards, the athletes like Adel Mechaal, Abdessamad Oukhelfen, Sergio Jiménez either Fernando Carro.
At 1,500 meters, the Norwegian also leads the list of participants Philip Ingebrigtsen (brother of Jakob), Olympian at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. He was world bronze at London 2017 and European champion at Amsterdam 2016. He has a personal best of 3:30.01.
The Ethiopian also competes in the queen of the middle distance event Melese Nberert, the Belgian Ismael Debjani and the spanish Jesus Gomez and Ignacio FontesBesides others.
In the women’s 1,500m the star is the athlete from Benin Noélie Yarigoworld bronze this winter in the 800 meters and has already won in Spain the World Indoor Tour Gold Madrid in 2023.
In the last two seasons he has dipped below two minutes in the 800 on nine occasions, while the Romanian is on the starting line of this test. Claudia Mihaela Boboceathe Italian Gaia Sabbatini and the Spanish Zoya Naumov.
The discus competition will feature the presence of the current Olympic runner-up, the Swede Simon Petterssonwho in 2022 certified a mark of 70.42 meters and threatened to beat the record of the Huelva meeting, which was 65.99 meters and held by Mario Pestano since 2006.
Another Olympic medalist is German Raphael Holzdeppebronze in the pole vault in 2012, who was also world champion at Moscow 2013 and runner-up at Beijing 2015, and is looking to compete in his fourth Olympic Games at the age of 34.
The other world medalists who will compete in Huelva are the Brazilians Leticia Oro Melo, world copper length; Swedish Carl Bengtstrom, world indoor bronze in the 400 meters and who will run the hurdles in Huelva; and the pair of triple jumpers generated by the Brazilian Almir Dos Santos and the french Benjamin Compaorésilver and bronze indoor world championships, respectively.
Source: La Verdad
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