Adel Mechaal finished off his third national indoor double with a great display in the 1,500 final, pulling from end to end and submitting his rivals with successive changes of pace to win his third title with a time of 3:36.89, a new record for the championships.
Fourteen hours after obtaining the title of 3,000 with absolute superiority, the disciple of Anthony Serrano He faced a more complicated challenge in the 1,500, with fast rivals capable of presenting him a battle in a hypothetical sprint, which is why the man from Girona took the lead from the starting shot and covered the first 500 in a fast partial of 1:10.
sources stuck to his back, Kevin Lopez retired and Adele he did not relent in his efforts. On the contrary, he redoubled his attack with 400 to go, opened more space and won, despite stopping on the straight, with the best mark ever achieved in a Spanish indoor championship.
It was his third double 1,500-3,000 in the Spanish indoor championships and the fifth overall. sources (3:37.81) and Saul Ordonez (3:39.18) formed with Mechaal a very classy podium.
“I had very fast rivals, I couldn’t let them get to the last 400m fresh, so I decided to punish them from the start. For the World Cup in Belgrade I want to go to the 3,000m because it is an exciting challenge, with so many Ethiopians. I love the 1,500m and I will do it for the summer,” said Mechaal.
Saturday’s day had ended with a spectacular record of Maribel Perez in 60 smooth (7.16), the second she beat in an hour and a half, which placed her sixth in Europe and eighteenth in the world this year. The Sunday program offered on the Expourense hydraulic track a succulent menu of great duels in search of the two places available per event for the Belgrade Indoor World Championships, and the presence of two Galician idols: Ana furrier in triple jump and Adrián Ben in the 800.
The first train crash occurred in the women’s 1,500, with Esther Guerrero from Girona defending the title against the Olympic finalist Martha Perez.
A very slow pace (1:39 the first 500) was intensifying until the two favorites took the lead at 600. Esther shot to bursting, taking Martha already Agueda Munoz, and in the middle of the sprint she suffered a strain in her hamstrings that left her out of the fight. Four years later, the woman from Soriana regained the title with a time of 4:25.42, Agueda She was second with 4:25.52 and Warriorchampion the last three years, wanted to finish and did it third with 4:25.82.
“A bittersweet feeling, I hope that Esther is not serious. I had tried it in all ways in previous years, so today I stuck to it and it came out, although the feeling is quite strange. I have been preparing my final”, commented the new champion.