The muleño started at 600 meters, but his presence at the World Cup, which starts in Oregon in a month, is not in jeopardy
Night to forget. The Muleño Mo Katir planted this Thursday in Oslo with the dream of breaking the oldest record in Spanish athletics, that of José Luis González on July 27, 1985 in Oslo, during the Bislett Games. It was in the mile and the man from Toledo did 3:47.79. To beat him, Steve Cram had to set the world record that day (3:46.32). González broke his own Spanish record in almost two seconds (3:49.67), also achieved in 1981 in Oslo. At the same place, 37 years later, a Katir who broke three Spanish records (1,500, 3,000 and 5,000) in just 33 days last year made a rendezvous with history in a much-anticipated 1,609 dream-like meters.
But Katir’s dream soon turned into a nightmare. He got off to a bad start and was soon in the back of the group. Arriving at 300 meters he started to climb positions and placed himself in the middle of the group next to Nacho Fontes from Granada. It was a mirage. Nodding and puffing, he stopped at 600 meters. leave. “Bad feelings,” Katir later claimed, dispelling the ghost of an injury that would have left him for the World Cup, which starts in a month’s time in Eugene, Oregon. Things are not going well for Katir, far from the athlete who amazed everyone a year ago.
The mile was taken by Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the African Viking. The Norwegian took the victory without palliatives with 3:46.46. The audience in Oslo went crazy with Ingebrigts. Norwegian record and best world record of the year. Behind him, almost as impressive, Australian Oliver Hoare, with 3:47.48. Nacho Fontes was sixth with 3:54.72.
In the 110 hurdles, the Navarrese Asier Martínez (13.30) impressed and only gave in to the unbeatable Devon Allen (13.22). And Adel Mechaal set a personal best (13:06.02) and finished seventh in a blazing fast 5,000. Ethiopian Telahua Bekele triumphed with 13:03.51.
Source: La Verdad
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