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Tomas Campos
Appealoorn (Netherlands)
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Marta García has caressed the second major medal of her athletic career at the end of the fourth in the final of the 3,000 meters of the Indoor European of Appealoorn. He has also done it by pulling epic, well He led the race to the sound of the bell of the last lap despite falling at the beginning of the test, when they barely took 400 meters -it was not seen on television.
Marta stood first in the absence of a kilometer and stretched the group like a gum. “I like to run forward and impose rhythm. I like the Jacobo style (referring to Jakob Ingebrigtsen) to let people fall and I think winning as it gives you a superhero plus, ”he had said yesterday after overcoming the screen of the series with a lot of authority.
Already in the last 200 meters, Marta was first surpassed by the British Melissa Courtney-Bryant and then by the Irish Sarah Healywhich would finally take the cat to the water with a time of 8: 52.86, six hundredths less than its rival.
The bronze, coming from behind, would take it The Portuguese Salome Afonso, silver in these same championships in 1,500with
8: 53.42 surpassed the Spanish.
Marta came to sign a good career yesterday in which he dissipated any questions about her form of form, after yield in the final of Gallur’s National Before the best ‘Punch’ in Águeda Marqués.
“I arrive in my best state of the covered track and I hope to prove it in the final. I dream every night, so you can dream of a medal, of course”, I would say minutes later in a mixed zone, anticipating its intentions to fight today for the podium.
Those who know that Palencia is very intelligent and methodical. A tireless worker who He graduated in Medicine at the University of Valladolid although he has parked the MIR to focus on athletics.
Marta trains much of the year in Switzerland at the orders of Thomas Dreissigkerthe mandamás of the prestigious oac Europe. The German directs a group of elite athletes in which it is also Mohamed Attaoui Although the Palencia arrived before, in October 2022, shortly after finishing their studies.
A bet that ended up paying off in 2024, the year of its final hatching. Already in winter, Beat Spain records of 3,000 and 5,000 meters on covered trackmonopolizing many looks that see in it a potential European medalist.
From Rome to Vallecas
A wish that turns months later In Rome, where a meritorious bronze wins in the 5,000 meters With a third Spanish plusmarca (14: 44.04), this time outdoors. Marta takes it to the historic Julia Vaquerowhich had it in 14: 44.95 since 1996, and closes a prodigious circle.
Our heroine would close its great year with a superb victory in the San Silvestre Vallecanadefeating the Kenyan Ruth ChepngichWorld Marathon, and becoming, incidentally, the first Spanish to win the most prestigious 10k in the world after its countryman Marta Domínguez In 2008.
Maribel and Jaël fall into the semis of the 60s
In the 60 meters, Maribel Pérez and Jaël I kissed They advanced to the semifinals after being second and fourth in their respective series with 7.17 and 7.25 but failed to overcome the following screen.
The first two of each of the three semifinals and two more athletes for times passed to the grand final and the Sevillian ended fourth with the same chrono of its debut, Only two hundredths from his recent record of Spain.
As for the Catalan, It was sixth with 7.22improving a little about his morning career but far from any option. I kissed, which develops better in 200, arrived in Apeldoorn with 7.18 as a personal brand.
