The Spanish relays were not in the finals but the Olympic dream was preserved

The five Spanish relays competing at the World Championships in Nassau (Bahamas) they should be find your ticket to the Paris Olympic Games on the second and final day of competition by not qualifying in the first round, where the finalist countries to seek their respective championship titles.

The relays of the men’s and women’s 4×100 and 4×400 plus the 4×400 medley They will have to find their ticket to Paris at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in Nassau on day two, in the qualifying round It was held as a repechage to complete the fourteen countries that would compete in the Games. None of the five teams made it finish in the top two of their series, something that paved the way to the final eight and the Olympic dream.

He 4×100 womencomposed of Sonia Molina-Prados, Jael Bestué, Paula Sevilla and Maribel Pérez, He was ahead halfway through the race, at 200 meters, but in the final straight, after the last post, he lost momentum and finished fourth with 42.85, just two hundred behind second place Australia. The winners were the Germans with 42.72.

“We have had very good feelings. I think they have been good changes. It was a very difficult series and we fought it hand to hand until the end,” confessed Maribel Pérez, a member of the same national quartet He broke the Spanish record in 2022 at the World Championships in Oregon with 42.58.

He The Women’s 4×100 achieved the seventh best mark of thirty countries in the competition and will have the option of seeking Olympic qualification on the second day, something that only the first two countries in each series have achieved on the first day.

He didn’t have it easy men’s 4×100 relay, which last year, in Madrid, stopped the clock in 38.64, 18 hundredths away from the Spanish record.

This time, those chosen for the race are Arnau Monné, Sergio López, Daniel Rodríguez and Guillem Crespí, who seventh in their heat with 39.35, more than a second behind the winners, the French with 38.32.

“We gave it our all but it was a difficult day because the big roosters were there. It was a day to dream and tomorrow is another race. We will try to fight it again and hopefully we will have a better road,” said Arnau Monné, member of the team that achieved the twenty-sixth best score of the thirty participating countries.

4×400

He The women’s 4×400 performed at an excellent level in a complex series and, with Herminia Parra, Laura Bueno, Eva Santidrián and Berta Segura, was fourth with 3:31.09surpassed by Poland, first (3:27.11), France, second (3:28.06) and Jamaica, third (3:29.03).

“We come with the dream of being Olympic. We have to be lucky but above all do justice. We have trained a lot and we are fighting for that Olympic place,” said Laura Bueno.

The men’s long relay, lThe so-called ‘Spanish Beatles’, He came to court with Iñaki Cañal, Lucas Búa, Manuel Guijarro and Bernat Erta. A a bad second-place race halted the ambitions of the Spanish team, which finished fifth with 3:06.84, away from the national record (3:00.54), and had no chance of finishing in the top two, an honor that fell to Botswana (2:59.73) and South Africa (2:59.76).

4×400 mixed

The 4×400 medley, developed by David García Zurita, Blanca Hervás, Julio Arenas and Carmen Avilés, cHe finished his streak, his third, in fifth place, with a time of 3:15.47 -second best mark ever-, more than two seconds behind the two countries that qualified for the Games: Ireland (3:12.50), which holds the national record, and Belgium (3:13.18).

“We fought very well, we’ve been in the race almost the whole time, we can do better and dream big and fight for that place,” said Carmen Aviles.

The Spanish quartet of 4×400 mixed, achieving the thirteenth best mark of the thirty participating countries, will have a new chance to achieve Olympic qualification on the second day.