A wow! A few, uys!, A go. Only one was missing! Wonderful! In the onomatopoeia collection that summed up the afternoon of Saturday, light and sun outside, Mortecina at the Velodrome of Apeldoorn until, and at night closed, at 21.50 Paula Sevilla, El Sol de la Solana, to the track.
of a thousand wars in a final that had the magnificent Dutch Lieke Klaver and the Norwegian flavoring Henriette Jaeger, and with the Czech that arrives, Lurdes Manuel and the Polish Justyne Swiety. And among all of them, small, almost a little mouse that does not make noise but does not fear, Seville, that, pure brain and more legs, and magnificently advised by his coach, veteran José Luis Calvo, resists the temptation of Y Jaeger, and, from Cinco Street, “conservative because he did not believe that he could endure in front,” he says, he placed third, and defends the fort, following the rhythm of the rhythm, strong. These arrive in times beyond the limits of Seville, 27 years, many years in the 200m, soul of the short Spanish relief, and their ability to make pineapple, to reinforce the love of their companions and, generous, reinforce them to them. “Everyone has come to encourage me and for me to have them in the stands has been a great support point because I always go on track where my people are because it comforts me a lot,” says Seville, even the lactic dizzy dizzy, and forgotten the nausea that the nerves, the tension, make him vomit sometimes before competing. “I believe in me because there are people who trust me more than me. And my psychologist, Félix Marquiegui, who has made the way a little easier. He has managed to guide me where I have to take the focus. It has been the success of believing it in this competition and not getting down, that sometimes I get smaller than I am really. ”
Klaver wins with 50.38s, Jaeger fights the victory until the last meter, and stays seven hundredths (50.45s), and, with a deserved reward, with a more demolished barrier, even by a hundredth, that of the 51s, the barrier of the 200m track, equalizing with 50.99s the national record that was believed to be untouchable. It is the third medalist Spain in a European on track covered after Cristina Pérez (bronze in 1987), Myers (first in 1992) and Indira Terrero (second in 2015).
“It has been incredible, I have tried to hit them until the end. I was very afraid to lose my technique a little at the end and that they would happen to me at the last moment because I had no margin to react, ”says Sevilla, a physical education teacher who has been living in the Blume residence in Madrid for 10 years. “I am supercontent. I have matched the record and, I, that I am a relay girl, I have achieved an individual medal with which I had never dreamed. ”
Until then the Spanish afternoon had passed through the go of Abel Jordán, the titan to which the body told Stop in the 60m semifinals; The wow! of Guillem Crespí (6.58s in the semifinal), which was classified for the final, and the Uys of the same Crespí (sixth in the final, 6.59s), Iñaki Cañal (room in the 400m final, 45.78s) and Fatima Diame (6.73m), fifth in length.
In the stations alert, care, one train can hide another, and in Spanish athletics they should also warn it, attention, a SprinteR Surely covers another, and more if it is so large, figuratively and physically,, the lankeus of 1.93m, which is touched, gives three magnificent first supports in its semifinal, and at the same time that the pain in its abductor increases. It runs 50 meters, the last 10 jogs. He does not risk breaking. “It is better to be healthy than being a European finalist,” philosophizes the kid of Fullerton that looks out to the railing to see the third semifinal. He appreciates it and releases a whistle of admiration. The hidden Spanish, a compact Barcelona (1.75m) who trains next to the beach on the track of La Mar Bella and defines the most chill of the selection, Guillem Crespí, has won it. Wow, Jordan shouts. “It runs a lot. It has 10.18s in 100m. If I had run like this in the Gallur nationals I would have put me in a hurry, ”admits the champion who then achieved his best brand (6.54s) while Crespí stumbled in his fifth support after having left as a rocket and ends third (6,69s). At noon he runs badly in the series (6,66s), he says goodbye, “paints badly to pass.” Only two times will be achieved in the semifinals. It relaxes. Chill out In white skin couch where the good news comes, it passes with the last time. One in the semifinals. Atomic output There are no false support, only progression and victory. 6,58s. Personal brand. A wow! from Jordan. Some phrases of the sprinter trained by Pau Friera: “The race has come out. We have worked a lot from Madrid. We are very even. It can be dream. ”
Five Street in its second continental final after finishing sixth in the 100m of Marcell Jacobs in the Olympic of Rome in June. Not a gesture to the camera. The gallery is inside. To his left, the fastest until then (6.52s), the British Jeremiah Azu; To his right, another British with the best brand (6.57s), and beyond, for seven, the Swedish Henrik Larsson. The crown is played in hundredths. He puts it on, real crown, like those given with the roscons de Reyes, Azu (6,49s). The Swedish, second (6,52s, national record); Robertson, third (6.55s). The three improve their brands. Crespí worsens a hundredth (6.59s). It is sixth, as in Rome.
Like Paula Sevilla, Iñaki Cañal, 27, Gijón, began as a pure sprinter, 100m (10.53s) and 200m (20.93s), but when he served 24, the continued injuries, the inability to find them a solution, they pushed their coach, the sprinter Pedro Pablo Nolet, to align him in 400m tests. Its initial, devastating speed, accompanied by a prolonged process of reaching good speed, made a phenomenon immediate For Hungarian Attila Molnar (45,21s), the Polish Maksymilian Szwed (45,31s, national record) and the Frenchman Jimy Soudril (45,59s), in that order, remained until the end. And the fourth place for Cañal (45,88s), a physiotherapist collaborator of the Popular Union of Langreo, the historic club of the great goalkeeper Nieves.
With 6.73m and beating with the left leg after a race cut one step, Fatima Diame, could not repeat his podium of the Glasgow World Cup a year ago. With the brand obtained then (6.78m), neither the bronze in Appealoorn would not have reached a great level of the Italian Larissa Iapichino (6.94m), daughter of Fiona May, ahead of the Switzerland Annik Kälin (6.90m) and the great favorite, the German Malaika Mihambo (6.88m).
