MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Madrid pentathlete Andrea Medina revalidated her title this Friday in the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships, whose 60th edition debuts this year in Ourense the name 'short track' and its dispute will last until next Sunday.
With the national record holder, María Vicente, absent, the women's pentathlon was decided between Madrid's Andrea Medina, current champion, and Sofía Cosculluela, under-23 champion two weeks ago. In the first test, the hurdles, Cosculluela won with a time of 8.40 and took the lead, although Medina achieved a personal best with 8.60.
But after the height, Medina took first position; She jumped 1.70 m (like Paola Sarabia and Alba Ramírez) compared to her rival's 1.64 m and put 28 points between them. In the weight, Sandra Férriz won, with 13.30 m, with Medina second (13.23 m) and Sofía Cosculluela third (MP of 12.77 m); the difference there was already 59 points.
The length was chosen for Cosculluela at 6.15 m and he overturned the classification by going 75 points ahead of his rival, who reached 5.71 m. In the final 800 meters, a priori favorable for Medina, the forecast was fulfilled with his record of 2:19.63. Cosculluela always ran behind (2:26.47) and it remained to be known, in moments of uncertainty, if the difference was worth reversing the classification.
And it was enough, since Medina totaled 4,184 points in the lead compared to Cosculluela's 4,168 points; The bronze went to Laura Aguilera from Malaga, who added 4,058 points after winning the 800 meters with 2:18.14 and made this podium identical to last year's.
POL FERRER IS LEADER IN THE HEPTATHLON
The Catalan Pol Ferrer leads the men's heptathlon with 3,306 points after four events, followed at 31 points by Jorge Ureña from Alicante, current champion; 50 points behind Ureña, Jorge Dávila from Castellón is third. In the 60 meter dash, Ferrer himself and Eloi Santafé were the best and ran in 6.97. Andreu Boix was the best in length, with 7.39 m; Ferrer did the same in weight, with 15.66 m; and Dávila won the height with 2.02 m.
In addition to the aforementioned marks, Ferrer reached 7.23 m in length and 1.90 m in height; Ureña, his great adversary, performed 7.00, 7.28 m, 14.28 m and 1.96 m respectively in the first four events of the heptathlon. So everything is still to be decided in Ourense.
There were no surprises in the women's 200 meters heats. Paula Sevilla from La Mancha and Esperança Cladera from the Balearic Islands, favorites for the title, won their heats with 23.82 and 23.94, respectively. In the other four heats, Carmen Marco (24.07), Patricia Urquía (24.10), Esther Navero (24.26) and Laura Castillo (24.44) won.
No surprises in the men's series either. The best was Daniel Rodríguez from Granada, five-time champion of Spain, thanks to his time of 21.13. The other five winners were Fernando Virgilio Martínez (21.15), Adrià Alfonso (current champion, 21.23), Andoni Calbano (21.33), Juan Carlos Castillo (21.35) and David Carbón (21.43).