Mohamed Katirwith the bronze medal What did you get on the test last morning? 1,500 meters nasa Eugene’s worldhas been the fifth athlete from the Region of Murcia to stand on the podium at a World Cup or Olympic Games and becomes part of a select list that is also included Mariano Garcia and Miguel Angel Lopez Nicolasalso present at this meeting, and those who have retired Antonio Peñalver and Juanma Molina.
Katir He was third in a time of 3 minutes, 29 seconds and 90 hundredths -his best of the season by far- in the final won by the British Jake Wightman, with 3:29.23, while the second position went to the Olympic. champion and main favorite, Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, with 3:29.47.
the man from Salamanca mario garcia romo She also performed at a high level in the middle-distance queen event, as she finished fourth with a time of 3:30.20, where she improved her personal record by more than five seconds; while Ignacio Fontes from Granada finished in eleventh place with a time of 3:34.71.
Katir knew how to manage the efforts to get back in the last part of the race and, after the effort, the student of Gabi Lorente and member of the Asics team, was satisfied.
“I am very happy and proud for this bronze in a World Cup and I hope that I was able to make Spain and my people happy, but this is only the beginning and in a month there is the European Championship”, he said.
Regarding the race itself, he mentioned the following: “I kept my strength and I knew a lot would come down at the end and I would have options. My legs started to hurt with 60 meters left, but I couldn’t do it. stop still.”
The athlete who was born in the Moroccan town of Alcazarquivir on February 17, 1998 -he is 24 years old-, but has lived in Since he was only four years old, added a new achievement and is the current national record holder of 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 meters on the track and the 10-kilometer trip won the second medal of the Spanish delegation in Eugene, adding his to another bronze, achieved by the Navarrese Asier Martínez in the 100-meter hurdles.
At the regional level, Katir follows in the footsteps made earlier by Antonio Peñalver, Miguel Ángel López Nicolás and Mariano García in universal competitions -World Cups and Games-.
The first to ride on the podium was the decathlete from Alhama, who is now 53 years old and who in Barcelona 92 won a brilliant silver medal.
Thirteen years later, at the Helskinki 2005 World Cup in Finland, the walker from Cieza, Juanma Molina, now 43 years old, won bronze in the 20-kilometer walk.
Another walker like Miguel Ángel López Nicolás, who at 34 years old is part of the Spanish expedition to the American soil and will compete in the 35-kilometer trial, won silver in the world in 20 at the Moscow 2013 event and later to Llano. de Brujas surpassed himself and everyone else with gold in the same distance at Beijing 2015.
More recently, specifically in March of this year, Mariano García won the title in the 800 meters of the World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade.
Fuentealamero, who will also complete two laps of the Eugene stadium, will be looking to repeat today’s success outside.
Source: La Verdad
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