The great protagonists were Noah Lyles, Sha’Carri, Faith Kipyegon, Femke Bol, Álvaro Martín and María Pérez
The RFEA highly values the competitiveness of the Spanish team, third in the medal table in Budapest
Budapest begins to gradually return to normal this Monday while living with 37 degrees on the last day of the suffocating heat wave that has hit hard at one of the most spectacular outdoor World Athletics Championships in history.
The next appointment will be in 2025 in Tokyo from September 13 to 21 (later to mitigate the heat and humidity). Before that, in 2024, the Glasgow Indoor World Cup, the outdoor European Championship in Rome, the Paris Games will be held and, already in 2025, the Dutch Apeldoorn will host the indoor European Championship.
The protagonists
Budapest will be remembered for the ‘triplet’ of American Noah Lyles (100, 200 and 4×100)for the redemption of his compatriot Sha’Carri Richardson (gold in 100 and 4×100 and bronze in 200), for the three medals of the Jamaican Shericka Jackson (gold in 200, silver in 4×100 and bronze in 100) and for the ‘ doublets’ by the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon (1,500 and 5,000), the Dutch Femke Bol (400 hurdles and 4×400 with a brutal final sprint) and the Spanish leaders Álvaro Martín and María Pérez (20 and 35 km walk).
Also multi-medalists were the Norwegian genius Jakob Ingebrigtsen (gold in 5,000 and silver in 1,500), the Dutch Sifan Hassan (silver in 5,000 and bronze in 1,500), the Botswanan Letsile Tebogo (silver in 100 and bronze in 200), the Americans Quincy Hall (4×400 gold and 400 bronze) and Gabby Thomas (4×100 gold and 200 silver) and Jamaican veteran Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (4×100 silver and 100 bronze).
Other key moments were the agony of the venezuelan Yulimar Rojas going from being eighth to gold in triple in the last jump (15.08), how the Swede Armand Duplantis touched another world record in pole vault over 6.23, the sensational mark of in 200 of Skericka Jackson (21.41, to seven hundredths of the record of ‘Flo Jo’), the 23.51 meters of American Ryan Crouser in weight or the unexpected Canadian ‘double’ in hammer throw (Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg).
The RFEF, satisfied
In addition to the aforementioned four gold medals in progress, Mohamed Katir achieved a great silver in 5,000 and Spain had 10 finalists (among them the rooms of Adri Ben in 800 and Mario García Romo in 1,500), which is summarized in a historic third place in the medal table and seventh in the standings.
The evaluation of the federative president Raúl Chapado was very positive. “We are not first in the medal table or in the points table, but we will be very close to the first place in competitiveness in relation to the level of each athlete and I am very satisfied with that. It is an extremely competitive athletics in which great powers have not achieved medals (Germany) & rdquor ;, he stressed.
The former triplist defended the march against the threat of the IOC and World Athletics, which has just named him vice president. “There will be no country more interested in defending the march than us and that can be achieved by working. I want to value the medals of María Pérez and Álvaro Martín, who have taken a step forward and have been dominant. In 2024 I don’t think there is anyone with more potential than us to fight for everything,” said Chapado.
The coach Pepe Peiró stressed that the World Cup “has been very good for Spain And that’s what the numbers say. We are third in the medal table and seventh in the points table, although I think we are not the third power. The whole team has had a great level of competitiveness, which is the first thing that is asked of them.”
Katir, this Thursday in Zürich
As he hinted just after hanging the silver medal in 5,000 meters in the World Cup in Budapest and except for last minute news, Mohamed Katir will close his season the day after tomorrow Thursday at 1,500 of the Weltklasse in Zürich (Diamond League) in front of 25,000 spectators and with everything sold out in the emblematic Letzigrund.
In addition, Armand Duplantis (pole pole), sprinters Noah Lyles, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Elaine Thompson and Letsile Tebogothe 18th century Mary Moraa, the duel in 400 hurdles between Karsten Warholm, Alison dos Santos and Rai Benjamin, Jakob Ingebrigtsen to face Katir in the ‘milqui’, the defeated hurdler Lamecha Girma (silver in Budapest) or Miltiadis Tentoglou, among others .