Spain, fifth in the world in the women’s 4×100!

The Spanish quartet was fifth and again beat the Spanish record (42.58) in the surprise finals

The United States lowered the Jamaican soufflé in the women’s relay and Canada defeated them in the men’s

The Spanish women’s 4×100 meter quartet has made history in the surprise final, winning fifth place which is the best ever achieved by a Spanish team in a World Cup and also with a new record for Spain after the one they achieved in the semifinals.

The relay rectors got it right again and repeated the order of the semifinals, so Sonia Molina-Prados opened fire to deliver the baton to the azulgrana Jaël Bestué, the double hectometer specialist Paula Sevilla ran the last corner and hill the Andalusian ‘bullet’ Maribel Pérez to stop the clock in a spectacular 42.58light years away from the 43.28 with which they arrived in Eugene.

Thus, Spain achieved a fifth place that gives four points in a position table in which it is eleventh and improved to seventh place in the men’s short relay in Athens 1997 with Frutos Feo, Venancio José Murcia, Jordi Mayoral and Carlos Berlanga.

The colossal Spanish performance came in a final with a surprising outcome just like what happened minutes later in the men’s final. With three-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, 1-meter champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and double-meter gold medalist Shericka Jackson in the last three relays, the talk was whether the Caribbean women would break the world record.

However, in athletics nothing can be celebrated beforehand and even less so in short relays, so a couple of poor deliveries condemned Jamaica to bronze despite Jackson’s great fastball with 41.18four hundredths of the United States (Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiber, Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry).

Germany took bronze in 42.03 for their first medal in Eugene minutes after Weber’s fourth place in the javelin, Nigeria was fourth with 42.12 (African record) and Spain achieved a fifth place for history.

After the ecstasy that was lived in the cold Hayward Field, The United States started as the undisputed favorite in the men’s final despite the loss of hectometer champion Fred Kerley. However, there was Christian Coleman (gold in 100 three years ago in Doha), Noah Lyles (champion in Eugene in 200 with a brutal 19.31), Elijah Hall and Marvin Bracy (silver in 100).

Nevertheless, a lousy delivery from Coleman to Lyles almost decisively weighed on American options. However, his excellent reaction and Hall’s great post allowed Bracy to start the straight second very close to the leader. And who was the leader? Well, Canada with the Olympic champion of the double hectometer Andre de Grasse, who has not arrived at his best moment in Eugene… but in the relay he is launched.

And there De Grasse became strong to impose his law and gave Canada its third gold with 37.48 three decades after the quartet led by Donovan Bailey reigned in Gothenburg in 1995 and in Athens in 1997. Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake and Brendon Rodney completed the quartet. The United States took a bitter silver at 37.55 and Great Britain a bronze at 37.83.