MADRID, 26 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The sprinter Maribel Pérez was proclaimed champion of Spain on the indoor track this Saturday in the 60-meter dash, while Adel Mechaal won the 3,000 on Sunday in search of doing the double with the 1,500, in a Spanish Athletics Championship that continued throughout high on his second day in Ourense.
The Sevillian was the protagonist of the afternoon by twice breaking the Spanish record of 60 meters that she already owned, first with 7.18 in the semifinals and then with 7.16 in the final. The men’s 60-meter final went to the Catalan Bernat Canet, with 6.61, a personal best, the best Spanish record of the year and a Spanish U-23 record and the minimum for the Belgrade World Cup in two weeks.
Meanwhile, after his European record, Mechaal fulfilled his favoritism in Expourense, always well placed and with his attack in the last 1,000, and already the last run without opposition. The Catalan will now look for a new double with the 1,500, a test in which he has already proven himself. Solange Pereira won the women’s race.
Saturday brought Orlando Ortega into action, equaling his best mark of the year (7.71) in the 60-meter hurdles, but without getting everything. The favorites did not have to press to be in the outcome of this Sunday. In addition, the national record holder Jordan Díaz missed the triple jump due to an injury during the previous training and the title went to José Emilio Bellido, 34 years old.
Ana Carrasco triumphed in the pole vault, Álvaro Corbacho was champion in the high jump and Belén Toimil won her second weight title. In the morning of this second day there were also emotions, from a heartfelt tribute in memory of the victims of the shipwreck of the Galician fishing boat Vila de Pitanxo, in Newfoundland, one of them, the older brother of Marín athlete Jean Marie Okutu.
In the competition, Eusebio Cáceres, fourth in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Héctor Santos, best record holder of the year with 8 meters fair, fought a nice duel in the length that the Alicante native won, who renewed his title from last year in Madrid and raised his seventh Spanish Championship.
The Valencian Fátima Diame won her fifth long jump title thanks to a single valid attempt, the second, in which she reached 6.47. In addition, Saleta Fernández won the women’s high jump title on her land, champion for the second time four years later, and Jorge Ureña was champion despite a difficult Friday.
The man from Alicante went to sleep with physical problems, but finished with his fourth title with 5,955 points. Ureña ran the fences in 7.95, made a personal mark in the pole (5.05) and the 1,000 he did in 2:43.83. The winner of the test was the Estonian guest athlete Marcel Uibo, who totaled 6,005 points.