The Catalan Adel Mechaal in 1,500 and Burgos Daniel Arce and the man from Madrid Fernando Carro They are the three Spaniards who will compete on May 10 in Doha (Qatar), in the third test of the circuit of Diamond League of this season.
Mechaal will face his first outdoor 1,500 meters test of the season in Doha. He will do so after winning the 5,000 at the Ibero-American Meeting in Huelva with 13:14.26 and also taking victory in the Cursa Patrimoni in Ibiza with 28:31, although not achieving the Spanish record for ten kilometers on the road, something that is his goal.
Arce, ninth at the last World Cup in Budapest and with a mark of 8:10.63, will run his second race of the outdoor season – first in the 3,000 obstacles – after participating on April 30 in the 5,000 meters of the Ibero-American Meeting in Huelva.
For Fernando Carro, who has not competed in the 3,000 obstacles since July 16, 2023 in the Silesia event of the Diamond League and who is the Spanish record holder with 8:05.69, this will also be the first test of the modality in the current season. . So far, in the last two months, she has competed twice in the 10,000 and once in the 5,000.
The strong favorite for victory in Doha is Ethiopian Lamecha Girma, the only one of the eighteen registered with a mark under eight minutes in 7:52.11.
Source: La Verdad
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