The athlete of Madrid Fernando Carro achieved the minimum required by the Spanish Federation to participate in Olympic Games in Paris after finishing sixth this Wednesday in the final of 3,000 obstacles of the meeting of Marseilles with a time of 8:18.30 minutes.
A mark that put Carro, the national distance record holder, by a foot and a half, if not the same, at the European Championships to be held next June in Rome after lowering the times required by both European Federations -8: 25.00- and of Hispaniola -8:28:00-
Carro, who was twelfth at the Diamond League meeting held on May 10 in Doha with a time of 8:22.50 minutes, significantly improved his performance in Marseille where he faced the leading group on the last lap.
But Carro, 32, could not stop the last acceleration of Ethiopian Samuel Duguna, world champion under 20 in 2022, who won in 8:12.44 against French Louis Gilavert, second in 8:13.47, and Alexis Miellet, third . with a mark of 8:14.71 minutes.
Further from the podium was also Spaniard Ibrahim Ezzaydouni who achieved tenth place with a time of 8:25.91, his best mark of the season.
But Fernando Carro was not the only Spaniard to shine at the Pierre Delot stadium in Marseille where Lorea Ibarzabal He finished fifth in his first 800 of the season with a time of 2:01.77 minutes.
A mark that did not allow the current champion in Spain to challenge the victory of the Frenchwoman Charlotte Pizzo, who won with a time of 2:01.07 minutes, seventy hundredths less than the Madrid athlete.
If Ibarzabal cannot overcome the ‘dense traffic’ in the last lap, in the men’s 800 meters final Saul Ordonez He paid at the last turn for the effort made in the first 400 meters which Bercian completed in third position, just passed by Hare and the Algerian Slimane Moula.
The incident that relegated Ordóñez, participating in Marseille in his first 800 of the season, to tenth position with a time of 1:45.98 minutes, very far from the winner of the test, the British Elliot Giles with a time of 1: 44.46 got of victory from Algerian Moula -1:44.75-.
In its part, Ignacio Fontes He had to settle for seventh place in the 1,500 final, where Frenchman Mael Gouyetre won in 3:34.46 minutes, with a mark of 3:36.09, almost two seconds faster than the Granada-born timer. 3:34.81- signed on Saturday in the city of Chorzow in Poland.
Source: La Verdad
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