MADRID, 22 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish athletes Marta Galimany and Jorge Blanco have achieved this Sunday the bronze medals in their respective half marathon tests of the Alicante 2022 Ibero-American Championship, a test that has been held in the town of Torrevieja (Alicante) and that has crowned Argentina Florencia Borelli and the Peruvian Luis Ostos.
In a circuit with two laps, with a temperature of 26 degrees and little wind, Argentina’s Florencia Borelli dominated the women’s event without opposition, in which she soon took the lead of the race together with her compatriot Daiana Ocampo, with the Spaniards Laura Méndez and Marta Galimany from behind.
However, she soon managed to get away from the mark and passed the 10 kilometers in 33:27, by Ocampo’s 33:47 and with the Spanish in 34:05. Finally, he crossed the finish line with a time of 1:11:59, a new championship record.
From behind, Galimany caught up with Ocampo, although he fell in the final sprint. The South American completed the Argentine double with a time of 1:13:13, while the Catalan closed her performance in 1:13:23 by hanging the bronze.
Puerto Rican Beverly Ramos (1:14:18) was fourth, and Bolivian Jhoselyn Camargo (1:14:40) completed the ‘Top 5’. The second Spanish, Laura Méndez, lost places and was finally sixth (1:14:51).
In the men’s event, the Spaniard Jorge Blanco, the Peruvian Luis Ostos, the Argentine Antonio Jesús Poblete, the Ecuadorian Cristian Vasconez and the Cape Verdean Andralino Semedo established a forward quintet in which Blanco and Ostos alternated to pull it.
Semedo was the first to fall from the group of applicants, and, at 45 minutes, the Spaniard also gave in. The head was reduced to Ostos, Vasconez and Poblete, and shortly after the end the Ecuadorian got rid of his rivals and headed towards the goal.
Thus, he crossed the finish line with a time of 1:04:30, but was disqualified by the judges, so the Peruvian Luis Ostos was proclaimed Ibero-American champion (1:04:46). Poblete took the silver (1:04:47) and Blanco, who had come in fourth place, won the bronze (1:05:26).
Semedo was fourth (1:06:39) and the Argentine Miguel Ángel Barzola, who lives precisely in Alicante, fifth (1:06:59). Up to eighth place, that is, sixth, seventh and eighth, the Brazilian Edson Arruda, the Uruguayan Andrés Zamora and the Chilean Hugo Catrileo qualified.
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