Relaxed, almost quiet, without tensions, please, unmistakable style, long steps, small imperceptible accelerations between return and back, the 24 -year -old Norwegian athlete, behaves as a professional collector, a safe hunter. In front of him in the 200 meter oval, no one. It is the first time that he encloses against the mile on covered track. The two hares have left the free territory reaching 1,100 meters. Pursues blue bulbs, accelerated LEDs, which indicate where the world record is. He advances them. I defeat them. Twice. The first, in the imaginary line that marks the 1,500 meters, which crosses in 3m 29.61s. The second, in the finish line, the mile, the reference distance for the Anglo -Saxon world of the middle background: 3m 45,14s. Two records of the world in eight laps.
The previous 1,500m Indoor record was possessed by himself (3m 30.60s), beaten in 2022 on the same track of Liévin, in northern France, the mecca of the European covered track. The mile record had only five days. He had achieved it last Saturday at the Armory in New York, the Mecca del Short Track American, during the Millosa Games, the American Yard Nuguse (3m 46,63s). Between both races of the mile, the world list has suffered a time shudder: between the two, six athletes have achieved six of the seven best brands of all time.
The youngest of the Ingebrigtsen Maravilla brothers, his fluid way of running, his world records-also possesses the 3,000m outdoors (7m 17.55s) and that of the 2,000m (4m 43,13s)-, But for the most demanding fan always leaves a frustrated desire: his tactical inability to gain universal titles in the 1,500m, the distance that demands speed and intelligence, cunning. After its Olympic gold in Tokyo 21, Ingebrigttsen has only added disappointments in the 1,500m finals in the World Cups 22, Budapest 23 and Paris 24. Identical careers: Imperial March of the Norwegian until the last 200m, in which there are those who They have been able to resist such high rhythm (the Scottish Wightman and Kerr, the American Hocker, and two more in Paris, Kerr and Nuguse), advance in the last meters.
Three weeks from Europeans on the track covered with Appealoorn (Netherlands), Liévin’s night offered the Spaniards confirmation of the Consistency of Quique Llopis in the 60m fences (third, with 7.53s, in a final in which The untouchable World Plusmarchist Grant Holloway, unbeaten in the distance since 2015, won his 66th consecutive victory with 7.38s, best world brand of the year), to which he took the measure of his rivals in Apeldoorn, the Frenchman Belocian (7,46s ) and the Polish Szymansky (7.55s). In 800m, the removal of Moha Attaoui in the last round hit the curve with the unpleasant wall of the American Bryce Hoppel to which he could only overcome the Belgian Crestan (1m 44.82s). The Cantabrian finished fourth (1m 45,64s). In series B, Mariano García was second (1m 45.96s). In 3,000m, the national plusmarchist, Marta García, achieved her best mark of the year (8m 41.56), while the Segoviana Águeda Marqués reduced her best brand three seconds (8m 41,75s). They were as third and fourth European race after the great Nadia Batocletti, who beat the Italy record (8m 30,62s) and the Dutch Maureen Koster.
