After several days of applause and medals -two bronze for Asier Martínez and Mo Katir-, The Spanish athletes experienced a black day with all its representatives removed. Naa 800 with high hopes attached Alvaro from AboveEuropean indoor champion in 2019, and Mariano Garcia, reigning world champion this year in Belgrade. The Murcian came out, as is his characteristic, like a ‘motorcycle’ and set the pace at the start. “I felt well placed with one lap to go, and when I saw that the speed seems to be falling asleep, I decided to push forward”, explained the man from Murcia. It was his overconfidence that got him to the finals. “I pushed too far forward in the headwind and in the last 150 meters I fell and they passed me like airplanes,” he admitted. Mariano, who finished sixth in his heat with 1’46”70. “However, I improved my performance compared to Doha 2019, where I was eliminated in the first round,” he said, taking the positive side of his participation in Oregon. “Next year we have another World Cup (Budapest) and I hope to get to the final“, He added. Previously, in three weeks, he would play the Munich European Championship and he still had to wait to find out if he was one of those selected.
A Alvaro from Above it never got better. The man from Salamanca paid for the overwork of the first round and did not have his day in the semifinals. “I’m a little stuck after yesterday’s tough tie that, even though it was the slowest, left me crazy by having to finish so strong. Races with such strong rhythm changes are the most difficult to recover from on a nervous system level. In a semifinal of a World Cup you have to be at 200% to pass and today I lacked the spark needed in this type of championships”, said a resigned De Arriba of his result in Oregon, seventh of his series with 1’46”30. “Now I have Munich on my mind, which will definitely be tomorrow and the three Spaniards will compete for one of those medals”, he added. The man from Salamanca plans to leave the 800 after Munich and prepare the 1,500 for the indoor season.
Naa 5,000, Adel Mechaal He is still far from spinning. The Catalan was greatly reduced by his contagion from covid 15 days ago and his performance was not as expected. “At the start of the race I felt very good and rested to be in perfect condition, but with 800 meters to go I felt a lack of oxygen and my legs, so heavy, couldn’t work for me”, explained Machaal in the mixed zone. in the end it is eleventh with 13’36”48, far from the personal mark with which he reached Eugene (13’06”02) and where he sought to end up, somehow, in the final. Not disappointed was Jakob Ingebrigtsen who, after failing to win gold in the 1,500, opted to enter the 5,000 as well and went through the round with the second best time, 13’13”92.
They were also fired in the first amendment Paul Torrijos in triple jump Y Manu Quijera in spear torrijosthe first Spanish athlete to exceed 17 meters, was left with a better jump of 16.31 meters, not enough to access the final (16.68m). “I didn’t make it like other years, but I have hope of going to the final, because it’s affordable. I had hopes of being like the Nerja national, but not like that “, examined the man from Castellón. In its part, Manu Quijeramaking his World Cup debut, failed to find the 83.28 throw he did this year and fell five meters shorter (78.61), not enough to make the top 12 and emulate the only Spaniard to achieve this, Julián Sotelo in Tokyo 1991.
Source: La Verdad
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