Ramón Torralbo is reminded of him because he is the coach of. And yes, it was for about 25 years, but it has been many more. 75 medals have passed in their hands in the championships of Spain and is one of the most transverse technicians of national athletics. One of his disciples, Pablo Delgado, in Bergen (Norway), and this Friday, in a memorable day end for Spain, an album pitcher of only 17 years, Andrea Njimi Tankeu, took the gold medal minutes before a Basque sprinter, Ander Garaiar, was imposed in the final of the 100 meters with a time of 10,40s (-0.7m/s) with 18 years.
Garaiar is an introverted boy who has only been with his coach, Valentín Rocandio for 11 months Rocky. The kid came because he wanted to make a computer module in San Sebastián. Before he lived in his town, Oiartzun, near the border with France, and there he barely trained three days at his school, the Haurtzaro. One day they made circuits in the patio, another day they went out to make series in a bike lane, and the third went to the Irun athletics track. With those three sessions he had enough to be third in the Spanish Sub-16 championship. There was wood.
Rocky remembers that he found but without a very striking physical structure. “It measures less than 1.80m and weighs about 70 kilos. It is not impressed by the physicist, but it runs very well, especially launched, and has a very good leg cycle”: the coach added the work of strength and a little longer series, 150m and 200m. Nothing from the other world, but enough to gain the resistance that it was missing. “The outdoor season started and it was already seen that it was going very well.” First, the Sub-20 200m record arrived. Then the 100m. And, to finish it, the 4x100m.
Tankeu, Santander and daughter of Camerooning parents, has been with Torralbo since she was a girl and pointed to the Athletics School of the Piélagos. His strength quickly opted for launches. “The weight has been choked because he doubts between the linear and rotating style, but the album has taken him right away. He is a girl with a large and very strong leg and arms.
The Cantabrian discobla won the final thanks to its third launch, in which its personal plusmarca in more than two meters improved and raised it to 54.28m, 12 centimeters more than the German Curly Brown. Tankeu, very extraverted, said it was an unexpected victory. “I feel in the clouds because I was not waiting for me. Spain had never had European champions in any of the 100m and Disc categories. And at the launch, it now has the U-20 European champion, Andrea Njimi Tankeu, and the Sub-23, Inés López. Something unheard of.
