MADRID, 11 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish men’s team sprint trio reached their goal this Thursday and will be in the first round after finishing seventh –with a time of 36 seconds and 661 hundredths, while the men’s and women’s team pursuit quartets finished in the ninth position.
Pepe Moreno, Alejandro Martínez and Ekain Jiménez will seek the final of the discipline this Friday after stopping the clock at 36″661 to finish seventh and remain among the best: They will fight to access the fight for metals from 12:15 p.m.
For its part, the men’s team pursuit quartet featured Albert Torres as the main novelty, who after having recently competed in the Tour de France, returned to the velodromes after not competing in them since the last Olympic Games.
Together with Mora, Martorell and Romero, who were already part of the quartet in the Nations Cup in Glasgow, the Spanish team was only two tenths away from qualifying for the first round. The time, 4’03″340, improved the time set in Glasgow by more than a second and a half.
In addition, the women’s team pursuit quartet also secured ninth place after setting a time of 4’37″811. Ziortza Isasi, Tania Calvo, Eukene Larrarte and Isabel Martín suffered the greatest technical demands that a small velodrome like this requires. , of 200 meters, but even so they were very close to the Spanish record.