The Jamaican did not give any of her rivals an option and won with 10.83 -rally record-
Peleteiro claimed the victory with a 14.15 mark, his best record of the season
the jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Prycein 100 meters, the Spanish Ana Peleteiroin triple jump, the Swiss Jason Joseph in 110 hurdles and the French Gabriel Tualin 800, were the great protagonists of the Madrid rally held at the Vallehermoso stadium, belonging to the World Athletics silver circuit.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, five times 100m world champion, arrived in Madrid as a star and the Vallehermoso public gave her one of the ovations of the night. The Jamaican did not give any of her rivals an option and won with 10.83 -rally record- his second race of the season after the harvest just two days ago in Lucerne (Switzerland) with 10.82. In the Spanish capital he did it one hundredth slower in a race that he completely dominated.
The Spanish J.ael Bestué, with 11.10, personal best and third best Spanish of all time, finished second and showed that her progression is on the rise.
In the triple jump the Spanish Ana Peleteiro, bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gamesclaimed victory with a 14.15 mark, her best time of the season in her fourth competition after her reappearance on June 14, six months after becoming a mother.
Peleteiro, trained by the Cuban Iván Pedroso, began the contest with a jump of 13.98, followed by the best jump of 14.15, with a favorable wind of +0.6. In the third he risked and made null. In the fourth he again exceeded fourteen meters (14.01), in the fifth he resigned and in the sixth, with the victory already assured, he made a null again.
One of the most anticipated races, the men’s 800 meter race, led to the triumph of Gabriel Tual, who stopped the clock in 1:44.46 and surprised the national idol, Adrián Ben, current European indoor championwho was third with a season mark of 1:44.72.
“I am happy with the sensations of the race. The pace was good, I felt good and I was able to finish off at the end”, said Ben.
In the 110 meter hurdles the Swiss Jason Joseph, European Indoor Champion in the 1960s, set a personal best with a time of 13.10ahead of the French Wilhelm Belocian (13.20) and the Spanish Quique Llopis (13.35), who finished third with his best mark of the season although he did not reach the 13.28 that gives the direct ticket to the World Cup in Budapest.
“The sensations were very good. Halfway through the race I swallowed a fence, I braked, they caught me but I fixed it as best I could. I wanted to get my feeling back on the track after what happened on the indoor track but I’m very happy. I think I can give a little more, but without haste and improving day by day”, pointed out Llopis.
the young kenyan Brenda Chebet won the 1,500 meters without much trouble by stopping the clock at 4:01.85, with less than a second advantage over the second, the Ethiopian Saron Berhe (4:02.30). The Polish Sofia Ennaoui, bronze medalist in the last European Championship in Munich, finished fourth with 4:03.68.
The 800 women were awarded Ethiopian Worknesh Mesele with 1:58.75the best mark of the season, after a race in which the Spanish Lorea Ibarzabal demonstrated her progression, finishing third with a personal best of 1:59.88.
“I’m very happy. The great barrier of two minutes has been difficult for me to lower but doing it at home, in Madrid, makes me very happy. The Spanish Championship in Torrent is the goal of the season, I want the first medal outdoors, and that’s what I think about,” Ibarzabal confessed.
the jamaican Megan Tapper, bronze medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, flew over the green track of Vallehermoso to take the victory in the 100 hurdles with 12.69, only five hundredths less than the American Tonea Marshall (12.74).
The Finnish Ella Junnila, with a mark of 1.90 meters, took the victory in the high jump, the American Anna Cockrell, with 53.79, won the 400 hurdles, and the Romanian Bianca Florentina Ghelber, with 73.80, triumphed in the hammer throwa test in which the Spanish record holder Laura Redondo stayed at 68.95.
In shot put, the veteran Carlos Tobalina, in his debut in Vallehermoso at the age of 37, finished seventh with 20.30 meters, in a contest which was won by Jamaican Rajindra Campbell with 22.22, a rally record.
The Italian Claudio Stecchi won the pole vault final with a record of 5.82a personal best, ten centimeters more than the Greek Emmanouli Karalis, while in the javelin the Moldovan Andrian Mardare won with a throw of 81.49 meters.