MADRID, 15 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The athletes Marc Tur, Álvaro Martín, Diego García Carrera, Miguel Ángel López, Laura García-Caro and Raquel González lead the list of 23 representatives with which Spain will attend the World Team Walking Championship, which will be held in Muscat (Oman). ) on March 4 and 5 and in which the Spanish champion of 20 and 35 kilometers walk, María Pérez, will not be.
The national coach of the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA), José Peiró, offered this Tuesday the list of athletes shortlisted for the event, in which, for the first time, the 35-kilometre walk will replace the 50-kilometre walk.
Among those summoned for the 35 km are the Olympians Miguel Ángel López, Spanish champion of 35 km in Lepe and Spanish record holder (2:27:53); Álvaro Martín (2:29:59), Spanish runner-up in the 35 km, current European champion and individual bronze in the 2016 World Team Championship; and Marc Tur, individual champion in the 50 km of the European Team Championship in Podebrady, fourth in Tokyo 2020 and runner-up of Spain in the 20 km in Pamplona.
They will also attend Oman Manuel Bermúdez (2:32:06), bronze in the national Lepe, who also climbed to the individual podium in the 2016 Team World Championship in the 10 km U-20; and Álvaro López (2:32:44), fourth in the 35 km Spanish Championship.
In the women’s category, the Olympians Laura García-Caro (2:48:05), runner-up in Lepe, and Raquel González will contest the 35 km walk together with Mar Juárez (2:53:40), bronze in Lepe and fourth in the Championship of Spain of 20 km in Pamplona, Carmen Escariz (3:00:48), fifth in the Spanish Championship of 35 km, and Cristina Montesinos (3:01:13), fifth in Lepe and seventh in Pamplona.
In the 20 km walk, Diego García Carrera (1:22:57), sixth at the Tokyo Olympics, heads a list that also includes the recently crowned Spanish 20 km champion, Alberto Amezcua; Paul McGrath (1:21:43), bronze in the 20 km of Pamplona; Iván López (1:22:30), fourth; and José Manuel Pérez (1:22:37), fifth. It will be the absolute debut for the last three.
In the women’s 20 km, Spain will not complete the team as they travel with only two walkers: Lidia Sánchez-Puebla (1:33:48), bronze in Pamplona, and Antía Chamosa (1:36:16), fifth in the same event. María Pérez, the current Spanish champion of 20 km and 35 km, has resigned from the Oman World Cup with the authorization of the sports management to “continue her preparation focused on next summer’s international commitments,” according to the RFEA.
In the U-20 category, Lucía Redondo (47:50), Griselda Serret (48:38) and Eva Rico (48:43) will form the women’s 10 km team, while Pablo Pastor (42:38), Óscar Martínez ( 42:43) and Pablo Rodríguez (43:14) will make up the men’s.
On Friday, March 4, the U-20 women’s and men’s events and the women’s 20 km will be held. On Saturday the 5th, the men’s and women’s 35 km will be held, in addition to the men’s 20 km.