MADRID, 28 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Former athlete Fernando Tallón López, former Spanish javelin record holder and champion of Spain in the 1960s and 1970s, died on Thursday in Ourense at the age of 75, the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) confirmed this Friday.
Born in Baralla (Lugo) in 1946, Tallón was the great Spanish javelin reference in the second part of the 1960s and 1970s, accumulating up to eight Spanish records with the old javelin model, taking it from 73.92 meters which he launched in 1968 up to 81.80 meters in 1975, which would be the last with this model until the artifact change in 1985.
In addition, he was six times absolute Spanish champion (1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1974 and 1975) and absolute Spanish international champion 25 times (1966-1976), and once as a junior athlete. He represented Spain at the Mediterranean Games in Tunisia in 1967, where he won the bronze medal, in three European Cups and in four Westathletics, where he always won second place. His 81.80 meters in 1975 placed him 42nd in the world ranking that year (33rd in Europe).
Tallón began in athletics in 1965 at the hands of Gregorio Pérez Rivera, then President of the Lugo Athletics Federation; that year he participated in some School Games and finished the year with a mark of 46.68, and the following year he reached 65.14 meters.
In 1970 he threw 78.04 meters and glimpsed the 80 meter barrier, but in 1972 a serious back injury hampered him. On November 7, 1975, he managed to break the mark at Estadio Vallehermoso during an RFEA control, with 81.80 meters that exceeded the 80.08 meters that Gonzalo Juliani had achieved two years earlier on the INEF track in Madrid. In 1970 he received the Barón Güell Cup for the best Spanish athlete.