A new 4×400 national record (3.00.54) It was not enough for the Spanish quartet of the long relay to get on the podium, finishing in fourth position, the sixth time that Spanish athletes have obtained this result at the European Athletics Championships in Munich.
The men’s team made up of Samuel García, Lucas Búa, Oscar Husillos and Manuel Guijarro had qualified with victory in their semifinal, with a time of 3:01.27, third best brand of all times. She looked good for the final. Husillos had run qualifying in 45 seconds, the fastest relay, and Guijarro’s final sprint had been enough to put the Spanish quartet at the top of the time table among the eight finalist countries.
Iñaki Cañal, Lucas Búa, Oscar Husillos and Samuel García they formed the final team in this order. Husillos was once again the most effective and put the national relay in fourth place in the absence of Garcia’s post, but definitely far from the trio that occupied the podium: Great Britain, Belgium and France in this order.
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Eva Santidrián, Aauri Bokesa, Berta Segura and Laura Hernández classified by time in the semifinals, with 3:27.76, a record that placed the girls of the relay in the final in a hypothetical seventh place. Sara Gallego, fourth in the final of the 400 hurdles, replaced Hernández in the last post.
The Spanish women’s quartet lost almost two seconds with respect to the semifinal and finished in eighth place. The Netherlands won with the invaluable help of Femke Bol, who is crowned with a third gold medal in this European after the titles in 400 hurdles and 400 smooth.