Adi Iglesias and Ivan Cano could not close the competition at the Olympic Stadium with a medal

He Spanish athletics had a triple presence distributed between the two finals this Saturday at Paris Olympic Stadiumone of the largest venues for the Paralympic Games. In it, that the stands are fullcould not achieve the closing medal, despite the fight of the Spanish athletes who participated that day.

Adiaratou Iglesias has graduated fourth in 400 meters T13. In them he marked a time of 56.98 seconds which did not allow him to fight for the podium. Despite a good start, Iglesias gave up shortly after being overtaken by Azerbaijani authority Lamiya Valiyeva, silver with 55.09 seconds, and Portugal’s Carolina Duarte, bronze with 55.52.

Those times left both stratospheric behind world record of Brazilians Rayane Soares (53.55; The previous record was held by American Marla Runyan with 54.46 from 1995), who flew effortlessly to gold. Iglesias, for his part, had to defend himself from the attack of the American Erin Kerkhoff, who finally finished fifth with 57.19 seconds.

Fifth is, certainly, Ivan Cano in it long jump T13in a final where Winsdom Ikhiuwu has graduated eighth. Spout has signed a register of 6.76 metersachieved in the second jump of a series in which he threatened his own mark in the fourth, where he remained at 6.64. Fifth after that second round, he has yet to progress to improve the positions.

eighth has been a I’m sorry which accomplished his first goal of moving toward improvement. In 5.85 meters In his first three jumps, three nulls by Laotian athlete Ken Thepthida and Norwegian Vegard Dragsund Sverg opened the doors to the final three rounds. In the last of them, the Spaniard improved to 5.98, but did not gain positions beyond eighth place.

In the fight for medals, the Azeri Orkhan Aslanov is the best companion 7.29 metersin a competition where he regularly jumped over seven meters. Silver went to American Isaac Jean-Paul with 7.20 and a second-best jump of 6.96 meters and bronze went to Brazilian Paulo Henrique Andrade with 7.20 but a second-best 6.95, in a tight battle with between the same athletes.

In this way, Spanish athletics is closed at the stadium including Yassine Ouhdadi’s gold in the 5000 meters T13; the silvers of Sara Martínez in the T12 long jump and of David Pineda in the 400 meters T20, and the bronzes of Alba García in the T11 long jump, of Joan Munar in the same event and of Álvaro del Amo in the shot put and the discus throw , both in the F11 category. They are a sum of seven medals, with one gold, two silver and four bronze which will be tried to increase this Sunday with the closing of athletics in the marathon events.