“American Girl” Martha Garcia Avenges Garcia-Caro with Epic Bronze

Martha Garcia decided to cross the Atlantic to train in the United States. aiming to take a step forward in athletics, and this Friday he wrote another page of glory with his impressive comeback, winning bronze in the 5000m and claiming Spain’s first medal at the European Championships in Rome.

The Palencia woman has already impressed this winter by breaking national records in the 3000m and 5000m indoors within eight days of each other, “like Faith Kipyegon”. This Friday he set another national record, improving with a time of 14:44.04. 14:44.95, owned by Galician Julia Vaquero since 1996… just a few months before her birth on January 1, 1997.

Marta rode in the first group with a rhythm of less than three minutes per thousand and always under the command of the current European cross-country champion, Norwegian Grovdal. In the last thousand, fighting began and the Spanish team dropped to fifth place, but He gritted his teeth and rose to bronze by 42 hundredths., taking revenge for what happened a few hours earlier, with Laura García-Caro from Huelva on a 20-kilometer march. In addition, young Marta Forero (21 years old) broke the Spanish under-23 record (13th place with a time of 15:19.69).

Front, Italian Battocletti also declared a “vendetta.” after her defeat in the European cross country (she was silver), and this time she came out with an impressive final leg to win in an impressive 14:35.29 (championship record) compared to the Scandinavian’s 14:38.62.

Belen Toymil arrived in Rome very motivated. and sought to demonstrate that she should have gone to the two competitions in which she was excluded due to the controversial RFEA “quality criterion”, which, on the other hand, has increased the level of competitiveness of Spanish athletes, and this is also an obvious reality.

The one from Mugardos even dreamed of a historical medal, something only the great Manolo Martinez achieved in the shot put. In her second attempt she cleared 18.43 meters and was third until the fifth round. finish fifth. Sensational performance from the Galician. The Dutchwoman Jessica Schindler won (18.77), followed by her compatriot Jorinde Van Klinken (18.67) and Germany’s Yemisi Ogunleye (18.62), who was just 19 centimeters ahead of Toimil.

Femke Bol is one of the world’s greatest stars. athletics and she was one of the heroines of the World Championships in Budapest with her gold medals in the 400m hurdles and women’s 4×400, with an impressive comeback but a fall in the mixed relay final on the first day when she was nervous about her arrival to the United States. He had a very bad night.

The Dutchwoman couldn’t shake that bad aftertaste this Friday, despite finishing her country’s relay masterfully to return to continental bronze in the 4×400 mixed event alongside Limarvin Bonevasia, young Isaiah Klien Ikkink (21) and Lieke Claver, who persisted in the first hundred with the Irishman Adekele.. The track and field star took bronze where there was none in 3:10.73, Irish gold and a championship record (3:09.92), and Italian silver and a national record (3:10.69).

Mykolas Alekna disappointed… or not so muchbecause his colossal discus world record of 74.35 meters was achieved under conditions that should prevent his establishment in the normal world, but World Athletics is not a normal world.

The fact is that the son of a two-time Olympic champion, Virgilius, had to be content with a bronze medal with a score of 67.48, dropping the current Swedish Olympic champion and world champion Daniel Stahl (66.84) to fourth place. Gold went to Slovenian Kristjan Cech (68.08). Silver went to the Austrian Weisscheidinger (67.70).