MADRID, 19 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish delegation has managed to get three of the four relay teams into their respective finals on a good morning in Munich (Germany) at the European Athletics Championships, with the two 4×400 meters and the women’s 4×100 willing to fight for the medals after making it through the qualifiers.
In the short relay, the runners Sonia Molina-Prados, Jaël-Sakura Bestué, Paula Sevilla and Maribel Pérez finished second in their series with 42.95, the third best record in history for Spanish athletics.
From less to more and gaining positions, the third post of Paula Sevilla and the last change left the classification on track for Maribel Pérez to finish off with a great final stretch.
In addition, in the men’s 4×400 meters, Samuel García, Lucas Búa, Óscar Husillos and Manuel Guijarro won their series with a time of 3:01.27, the third best ever and the best since 2018.
Samuel García opened the relay with a time of 45.70 and handing over the baton to Lucas Búa in second position. The man from Toledo did 45.31 and kept second place, so that the Spanish champion Óscar Husillos (45.07) helped Manuel Guijarro to come back one position, running the lap in 45.19 to seal first place.
Also the women’s 4×400, despite finishing fourth in her qualifying round, got into times with a mark of 3:27.76, the second Spanish of all time and the best in the last 31 years.
On the contrary, the negative note was put by the male short relay, made up of Alberto Calero, Pablo Montalvo, Jesús Gómez and Sergio López Barranco, who did not have his day and was left out of the European final after finishing fifth in the first of the two qualifying rounds and not qualifying for times either.
Outside of the relays, Lucía Pinacchio from the Balearic Islands will not be in the European final -in her European debut at 19 years old- of 800 meters, after being eliminated in the semifinals after finishing eighth with a time of 2:06.82.
In the javelin throw, the Spanish champion Manu Quijera failed to qualify for the final after finishing sixth in his qualifying group with 76.67 meters and 14th overall, unable to improve his first and best throw.