The afternoon session of the World Athletics Championships in Budapest could not have started better For the Spanish delegation, this Sunday after Álvaro Martín’s historic gold medal in the 20-kilometer walk, with three representatives rated at 1,500 men for the semi-finals.
Best of all, both In the first series as Adel Mechaal, in the second series as Mario García Romo and Mohamed Katir In the third, they showed they were imperial, although the occasional elimination after the 800 meters added drama by not having the playoff umbrella.
Mechaal holds the lead in a fast run (57.57 in the first thousand) was rocked on the penultimate straight when Jakob Ingebrigtsen took the lead (2:25 per thousand). The adopted Catalan knew how to maneuver deftly to spend as little as possible and finished fourth with 3:34.35, while the Norwegian won at will with 3:33.94.
In the second, it was Mario García Romo’s turn., fourth in the Eugene World Cups. It was a very slow series as it crossed 400 (1:05.51) and the bell rang (2:53.80). As expected, the race went wild on the final lap and the Salamanca man was locked in the final episode as classification was compromised, but he gave his best and won his series with 3:46.77. .
The last in the debate was Mohamed Katir in the third series and it showed how well he did and why he was bronze in the last World Cup. Living in the Murcian lands and spending most of the season in the Sierra Nevada, the athlete took the lead for the finish line shortly before the penultimate pace (2:40.72) and asked his teammates to stay maxed out in the final meters and the finish. Second place with 3 :34.34.
That’s why Adel Mechaal, Mario García Romo and Mohamed Katir will take part from 5:30 p.m. this Sunday in the 1,500-person semi-final, which will consist of two races with 12 athletes each and the semi-final prizes for the top six. Earlier, at 17:05 it will be the turn of Catalan Esther Guerrero and Marta Pérez from Salamanca in the women’s ‘milqui’ semi-final.