The women’s 4×100 smashes the Spanish record and will be in the final!

Sonia Molina-Prados, Jaël Bestué, Paula Sevilla and Maribel Pérez made history with a marcón (42.61)

With 38.70, the men’s 4×100 approached the national record and was one place away from accessing the final

Spain arrived at the Eugene Outdoor Athletics World Championships with the best team in its history in the women’s short relay and he has amply demonstrated it by making history with a prodigious performance.

The quartet formed by Sonia Molina-Prados, the azulgrana Jaël Bestué, Paula Sevilla and the electric Maribel Pérez He was second in the second series behind only the United States with a sensational record of 42.61, which represents a new national record by more than half a second (43.28 was the previous one that had been set last May by Molina-Prados, Lucía Carrillo, Seville and Carmen Marco).

The Spanish team reached the first World Cup final in its history with the fifth best mark of the eight classifiedbehind the United States (41.56), Great Britain without Dina Asher-Smith (41.99), Jamaica without double hectometer champion Shericka Jackson, Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson (42.37) and Germany (42.44).

In this case, we must highlight and value the extraordinary work that has been carried out by the Spanish Federation with several concentrations and a tremendous job to coordinate the deliveries that have given results with the coach Pepe Peiró and with the person in charge of the relays Ricardo Diéguez, the ‘Panter’.

Next, the men’s 4×100 was also obliged to improve the Spanish record dating back to the 2013 Moscow World Cup when Eduard Viles, Sergio Ruiz, Bruno Hortelano and the mythical ‘Pájaro’ Ángel David Rodríguez stopped the clock in 38.46.

In a remarkable performance, the team made one of the best marks in Spanish history with 38.70but that national record did not fall nor did it reach the final despite being really close.

The new prodigy of Spanish speed Bernat Canett, the blaugrana specialist in the double hectometer Pol RetamalJesus Gomez and Sergio Lopez they were sixth in the second series and finished with the ninth mark (only eight will be in the final).

A pity, although with this work the quartet is fully qualified to play the final at the European Championships in Munich and even fight for medals being beaten by only two European teams (France with 38.09 and Great Britain with 38.49). The United States with Noah Lyles achieved the best time with 37.37 and Canada (38.10), South Africa (38.31), Jamaica (38.33), Brazil (38.41) and Ghana (38.58) also passed.