MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The 61st Spanish Athletics Championship on the Covered Track, which will profile the National Team for the Imminent European of Appellan (Netherlands), started Friday at the Gallur Municipal Sports Center, in Madrid, with Jaime Guerra in long jump and long jump with Alba Ramírez in Pentathlon proclaiming victors.
The Pavilion of the Los Cárms neighborhood housed this event for the fourth time in its history, after those of 2016, 2021 and 2023, and this time just one week after reopening doors for the last stop of the World Indoor Tour Gold, another rally of Level in the best international circuit of a modality now called ‘Short Track’.
The male length began with the bad news of seeing Lester Lescay during warming, due to some discomfort in the hamstring. So Jaime Guerra, champion in 2023 and Spanish leader of the year, presented himself as more favorite if possible for the direct final.
The Catalan reached 7.98 m in his first attempt, and at that time he took the head of the test and did not release it. After a null in the second jump, in the third he reached 8.14 m, best Spanish brand of the year and best covered by the disciple of María Durán.
“It had not been so much jumping in ‘Short Track’ for 10 years,” said the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) in a press release. Then Guerra jumped 7.83 m, passed in the fifth and flew up to 7.88 m in the last jump to seal his gold, ahead on the Eusebio Cáceres podium (2nd clas., 7.80 m) and Jan Díaz (4th Class., 7.59 m).
The title in the Pentathlon was expected to be played between Madrid’s Andrea Medina, current champion, and Alba Ramírez, best Marquista of the year and champion of Spain Sub-23 two weeks ago. In the 60 m fences the best was the Navarra Miren Ederra, who marked 8.51 against 8.60 by Paula Pérez, 8.68 by Andrea Medina and 8.82 of Alba Ramírez.
Medina got in the lead after height, in which it was the best with 1.73 m, for 1.70 m of Ramírez. In the peso, Sandra Férriz highlighted, who with 14.29 m won the best Spanish brand in history in a combined, either outdoors or ‘Indoor’, which boosted it to third place; Meanwhile, Medina launched 13.03 My Ramírez 12.71 m.
In the length they changed litmus and put Ramírez, as it looked a 5.79 m mark, for only 5.31 m of Medina. Behind, Madrid’s Paula Pérez recovered third place at the expense of Férriz, for only three points. Aasí that, in the absence of 800 meters, Ramírez was leading with 54 points and was ahead of Medina.
The 800 was a beautiful race, with Medina in the lead at first. But Ramírez took strength and took the first place at a start that unleashed the public’s ovation; With her Ivet Rovira left, who seemed to win, but a final Rush ‘Ramírez gave him the victory in the race, with 2: 21.34, and in the combined.
Not surprisingly, Ramírez added 4,102 points and conquered his first champion title of Spain; She is under Manoli Alonso, tanner of combineras generations. La Plata went to Medina, with 3,697 points, and bronze for Pérez, with 3,873 points and in a fight with Rovira, who added 3,860 points and was finally fourth.
Jorge Ureña clearly leads heptatlon
The heptatlon, after four tests, is clearly led by Jorge Ureña, current champion and national record. The surprise of the afternoon were the three nulls in length of Pol Ferrer, national leader and recent champion of Spain Sub-23, mortgaging the test.
In the 60 meters of this combined, the fastest were Ferrer and Ureña, with 6.93, doing Pablo Gámez a record of 6.98. In the length, Ureña marked distances with his rivals by signing 7.49 m, the fourth best mark of his life in a heptatlon. In weight launch, the best was clearly José San Pastor, with 15.55 m (MMP), and Ureña after him with 14.56 m, the third best mark of his career.
In the height, Ureña beat, with the same record of 2.02 m as Andreu Boix. Therefore, Ureña leads with 3,424 points and is only 22 points below her own record of Spain. Pablo Roelas, also from Onil as Ureña, is second with 3,140 points; And in third place, Jorge Dávila is located at the moment with 3,104 points.
Finally, without surprises in the 200 -meter female qualifiers, which were won, in order of better to worse brand, by Aitana Rodrigo (24.15), Lucía Vaquero (24.20), Ivana Peralta (24.23), Esperança Cladera (24.27) , Esther Navero (current champion, 24.45) and Laura Castillo (24.49).
In the male qualifiers, notorious was the disqualification of Rodrigo Fito, after winning his series with 21.10, and the injury of Daniel González. The best was Juan Carlos Castillo (21.06, best Spanish brand of the year); The other qualifiers were for Andoni Calbano (21.12), Adrià Alfonso (current champion, 21.17), Manuel Vilacha (21.20), Albert Romeo (21.27), Jesús Gómez (21.39) and David Coal (21.40).