Mohamed Attaoui described 2024 as a “magical” year

Mohamed Attaoui, European runner-up in the 800 meters, national distance record holder and fifth in the Olympic Games in Paris, He was outstanding this Saturday in Jaén, where he won the 36th edition of his mile ahead of his native Granada. Ignacio Fontesthat 2004 was a “magical” year.

Attaoui highlights the results achieved, but maintains that he is already thinking about his future with the aim of “being focused on finding” his “maximum potential in the eight-hundred” and “taking advantage” of his “peak speed in 2025”.

He remembered 2023 as the year that confirmed his emergence in the world of athletics with his participation in the 800 meters of Budapest World Cups or the silver medal of 1,500 meters in European under-23 and that, although at the beginning of this season “I dreamed of equaling it”, now in a short time it seems very far from “successes achieved.”

From this 2024 he stays with the huge steps he took and everything that led to the difficult decision to leave his home and family in Torrelavega (Cantabria) for joined the On Athletics Club team in Switzerland under the direction of the coach Thomas Dreissigacker and with some of the best runners in Europe.

At only 23 years old, Mohamed Attaoui is already part of the history of Spanish athletics, such as his silver medal at the European Championships in Rome, his Spanish record of 1,000 meters with a mark of 2:15.03 which improved the record by 2: 15.99 where Jesús Gómez surpassed Fermín Cacho in his time; his victory at the Spanish Championships in La Nucía, his historic Spanish 800 meters record in Monaco of 1:42.04 and his excellent performance at the Paris Olympic Games, where he finished fifth in the final, just four hundredths from on his record