The Mechaal, a champion couple at 3,694 kilometers

Adel Mechaal is in a state of frightening form. Three weeks ago he broke the indoor European record of 3,000 meters (7:30.82) in New York (running the final kilometer in 2:25) Last weekend he achieved the double, 1,500 and 3,000, in the Spanish Championship, impressively winning the two gold medals. In the 3,000 meters he flew again in the final thousand meters stopping the stopwatch in that interval at 2:24 and the next day, in the most mythical distance of the middle distance, he offered a sprint from the shot to the goal to win without opposition with 3: 36.89. “It is impossible to follow him”, said Ignacio Fontes, national runner-up in Ourense.

The Barcelonan born in El Jebha (Morocco) 31 years ago, who came to Spain at the age of two and obtained nationality in 2013, He is surely at his best moment and this is attested to by the fulfilled challenge of the double in Galicia. The curious thing is that Adel’s challenge was also attempted to be repeated at the same time at 3,694 kilometers, in the Turkish town of Ataköy. There, Emine Hatun Tuna Mechaal (26 years old) sought to reign in the same distances of Ottoman athletics.

Adel’s wife, the reason why the sensational Spanish athlete went to live in Istanbul at the time (now they live in Spain again) since she combined athletics with her job as a teacher, she came close to emulating her husband. Gold medal in 3,000… and silver in 1,500. Perfect work of the Mechaal couple. Adel now looks at the 3,000th indoor World Cup in Belgrade, the 1,500th outdoor World Cup in Eugene… and in the future he promises to give war in the 5,000, in the 10,000 and maybe he will end up achieving success in the marathon as well. The total athlete, a middle-distance sprinter.