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Tomas Campos
Appealoorn (Netherlands)
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It was one of the most sung golds of these Europeans and that competitive animal that is Ana Peleteiro has not failed. The Galician has imposed in the final of the triple jump with a better flight of 14.37 meters, the best European brand of the year. He has also done the watchful eye of Lúa, his daughter, who minutes before the final hugged his father Benjamin as he saw his mother warm up. Ana has achieved the eighth medal of her life in a great championship and her second Indoor European gold, after the Crown of Glasgow 2019. Peleteiro only remains to get on a podium in an outdoor World Cup, a debt that will try to charge this year in Tokyo.
Peleteiro arrived in Apeldoorn with the four best jumps of the season in the old continentall achieved in the Spanish championships played two weeks ago at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center in Madrid.
A competition in which any hint of doubt dissipated after a few months plagued by novelties. Change of residence, from Guadalajara to his Galicia of the soul; change of coach, from the hand of the experienced Iván Pedroso to those of Benjamin Compaoréher husband, and change of whipped leg, from the right to the left.
An idea, the latter, who had to abandon in full winter season due to the insurmountable discomfort he suffered in his operated left knee -Ana broke the ligaments in the head of the fibula in 2014-.
That plot has not prevented Ana from reaching this European in full form, dominating the final from the second jump (14.20 meters) after such a tight null – only 9 millimeters – as long.
It was, yes, Put the bolt to the title with a longer flight Because there were several rivals of a certain substance, no matter how much their brands of the season did not represent a threat.
A sentence that It would not arrive in the third (13.96), in which the Galician left almost 30 centimeters in the table. However, no other participant had exceeded those 14 meters in the Ecuador of the contest.
Just the Spanish room with two oros or more
With his rivals still huge in the 13 long meters, Peleteiro renounced the fourth jump before giving the final blow. It was in the fifth, with a dedication included to Lúa, when Ana signed those 14.37 meters before reviewed. The gold was already his, or that seemed …
Because the Romanian Diana Ana Maria Ion flew far away, far, in her sixth and last attemptgiving us a few seconds of uncertainty that nobody had. In the end his jump, 14.31 meters, was a personal brand But he did not go down to the Spanish of the first drawer of a podium that completed the Finns Senni Salminen with 13.99 meters.
The Galician, by the way, becomes just the four Spanish athlete to win two or more golds in an Indoor European. Unattainable appears the historical José Luis González with his three titles in the 1,500 meters and the two at 3,000. With two, like Ana, they are Antonio Páez -In 800 of Vienna 1979 and Milan 1982- and Sandra Myersin the 400 of Genoa 1992 and 200 of Stockholm 1996.
