Isaac Nader improved his national short track record, winning the race at the Leivin Meeting, in France. Portuguese athlete Salomé Afonso broke the European record and came in 2nd place in the race.
This Thursday, Isaac Nader broke the Portuguese record for the 1,500 meters on an indoor track, in the race he won at the indoor meeting in Lievin, a meeting in which Salomé Afonso took possession of the European record for the 2,000 meters.
Nader, who stood out early in the race, finished the race in 3.32.44 minutes, taking 15 hundredths off his record, set on this same track in Lievin, at last year’s meeting.
O outdoor distance world champion rises to second best of the year, just behind the American Cole Hocker, who has 3.30.80, and achieves direct participation in the Torun2026 World Championshipswhich will be played in Poland in March.
Behind Nader, Italian Federico Riva (3.33.04) and Irishman Andrew Coscoran (3.33.09) finished, also obtaining new national records for their respective countries.
In the B final of the same distance, José Carlos Pinto finished in fourth place with a time of 3.36.13, which represents a new personal best in the distance, just 13 hundredths of the mark for access to the ‘indoor’ World Cup.
Salome Afonso bet on a race that is not part of the official calendar and is rarely contested, the 2,000 meters, going quite well, with the best European brand surpassed.
Patrícia Silva was one of the ‘hares’ hiredtaking the race to 1,300 meters at a very good pace, which only Australian Jessica Hull was able to follow.
Hull won, in 5.26.68, and further back, in the fight for second place, Salomé Afonso was brilliant, crossing the finish line in 5.30.31 minutes.
The mark surpasses the national record, set by Fernanda Ribeiro, 5.37.34 in 1996, as predicted, but goes further, as it becomes a European record, removing from the list of maximums the 5.30.53, set by Romanian Gabriela Szabo, in 1996.
Hull becomes second best everbehind the world record of Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba (5.23.75) and Salomé Afonso rises to third place on the historical list.
