The Fuentealameño, who has the best world record of the season on the indoor track, starts today in the qualifying round of the 800
Mariano García, ready for his premiere in Belgrade and with all his rivals lurking. The New Balance athlete debuts today at the ‘Indoor’ World Championship, in the 800 meter qualifying round. Gabi Lorente’s pupil, the only Murcian in the Spanish expedition, arrives as the world leader in the 800-meter dash on the indoor track, thanks to the 1.45.12 mark he achieved in New York on February 6, a time that it earned him to beat the record of Spain. Shortly after, on February 27, he achieved the national silver in Orense. Today’s race is scheduled for 1:00 p.m.
For Mariano García it is not important that his is the best world record of the year in the 800 meter indoor track. “In a second we are 15 people. I don’t care what they say, I have to do my career and do it as well as possible. I’m better than a month ago when I made the record for Spain, let’s see if I can finish confirming it in Belgrade », he told Europa Press yesterday.
The 800 meter dash of this Belgrade World Cup without a difficult prediction. The Spanish leader of the year is Mariano García, who in New York beat the American Bryce Hoppel (1.45.30), who has always beaten the Kenyan Collins Kipruto (1.45.39), and who in the meeting in Lievin (France) left without award to the British Elliot Giles (1.45.39), who nevertheless returned it to him at the appointment in Madrid, on the 3rd. Everyone has between eyebrows to beat Cuevas de Reyllo in Belgrade.
In a slow race, he would have even more opponents, as other athletes could come into play, starting with the Swedish Andreas Kramer (1.45.71) or Álvaro de Arriba (1.45.82), the latter with a very fast finish. Without the defending champion Adam Kszczot, who was going to retire in Belgrade but suffers from the adverse effects of the vaccine again.
treacherous semi-finals
Mariano García has a lot of experience, and very good results on the indoor track and should qualify for the final of six tomorrow (7:10 p.m.) fighting for the medals, although the semifinals of this test are treacherous and almost as difficult as the final race. The Murcian is usually impulsive on the track, something that can be a problem in championships.
“No matter what happens in the World Cup, I have already achieved the goal for this part of the season,” says the Cuevas de Reyllo middle-distance runner
«I face the World Cup with the same motivation as every training session, and at the moment everything is going well so far this season. I have adapted quite well to the change of shoes -after the change to New Balance-, but more than looking for a good brand in a competition like this, what is sought is the medal, “said Mariano García last Tuesday, at the event farewell ceremony for the Spanish team, held at the Vallehermoso stadium in Madrid, and in which Raúl Chapado, president of the Spanish Athletics Federation, already said, addressing the Spanish athletes [13 mujeres y 14 hombres] that «in Spain athletics has become an attitude rather than records or medals. You have managed to transcend and you have hooked the audience by the attitude you show. The attitude is based on work, talent and determination.
Athletes from Spain who compete from today in the Belgrade World Cup. /
The great objective of Mariano Gracía this season on the indoor track is to recover the pulse in the race, «after the appendicitis I suffered, and to feel competitive again. Regardless of what happens at the World Cup, for me, the goal for this part of the season has already been achieved.”
With these words, the Murcian middle-distance runner does not mean that he is going to lower his arms, since «all competitions motivate me, even a Regional in Murcia motivates me, but in these championships you can achieve something that you have not yet achieved and that motivates you much more. But any race motivates me a lot.
In the European indoor track that was held in the Polish town of Torun, in 2021, Mariano García did not go beyond the semifinals with a mark of 1.47.63.
The show starts
The World Championship calendar starts strong from today at the Stark Arena in Belgrade, with the direct men’s triple jump final, and distributes finals through the six scheduled sessions, although as usual the highlights will arrive on Saturday afternoon. and Sunday.
The list of Spain, in addition to Mariano García, includes six other Spanish indoor record holders: Ana Peleteiro in triple jump; Adel Mechaal, in 3,000 meters, Jorge Ureña, in heptathlon; Maribel Pérez, in 60 meters; Bernat Erta and Manuel Guijarro, in 4×400 meters. Mechaal, who was going to run the 3,000 and 1,500, has given up participating in the second of these two distances.
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