MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Gallur Municipal Sports Center in Madrid will host this Wednesday, starting at 6:45 p.m., one more year an appointment of the best indoor athletics circuit, the World Indoor Tour Gold, which makes its sixth and penultimate stop in the Spanish capital, where there will be world and Olympic champions and national figures such as Mariano García, Mohamed Katir or Mario García Romo.
The Madrid tartan continues with top-level athletics and after hosting a new edition of the Spanish Indoor Track Championship last weekend, now he is once again showing off his best clothes for a great indoor event, which will also serve the Spanish athletes to try to gain a place in the list for the next European Championship in Istanbul at the beginning of March.
Gallur will receive the visit of four current world indoor champions such as the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou (length), the French Cyréna Samba-Mayela (60 m hurdles), the Portuguese Auriol Dongmo (weight) and the Spanish Mariano García, who will compete in an 800 that is re-profiled, as it already happened in the National in one of the most attractive tests.
The Murcian, who has finally renounced the European Championship and is looking for his second victory in this meeting, finished runner-up last Sunday in a spectacular race where he was beaten by Saúl Ordóñez, with whom he will meet again this Wednesday. Javier Mirón and Adrián Ben will also want to be in the fight in a test where the names of the Irish Mark English, continental bronze outdoors, and the Swedish Andreas Kramer also stand out.
There will also be a lot of expectation in the 1,500, where in the end the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen will not be there, who was the great claim of the event, but which will surely be the highest level race with the presence of ‘Mo’ Katir, who was not in the Championship of Spain and who arrives in Madrid after breaking the European record for the distance.
Along with him, Mario García Romo, European bronze and fourth in the world in the open air distance, the competitive Adel Mechaal and Jesús Gómez, or international level athletes such as the Americans Yared Nuguse and Grant Fisher, the Luxembourgish Charles Grethen and the Italian Pietro Arese.
In addition, Óscar Husillos from Palencia, in great shape, will seek victory in the 400 meters against national (Iñaki Cañal, Manu Guijarro and Lucas Búa) and international opposition (Danish Benjamin Lobo Vedel and Belgian Dylan Borlée, world champion under ceiling), and in the 60 meter hurdles, Enrique Llopis, champion of Spain a few days ago, will face rivals like the American Daniel Roberts. There will be more level in this test in its female version with six athletes who have dropped below eight seconds this season, led by the world champion Cyréna Samba-Mayela.
The Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou, Olympic and world indoor champion, will be the rival to beat in the length contest, while in the women’s weight there will be a high level with the current outdoor (Chase Ealey) and ‘indoor’ world champions (Auriol Dongmo), the continental outdoor gold medalist (Jessica Schilder) and the Commonwealth Games champion (Sarah Mitton).
Finally, in the women’s triple will be the Cubans Liadagmis Povea and Leyanis Pérez Hernández and the Portuguese Patrícia Mamona (14.41 m), Olympic runner-up in Tokyo, who lead the world ranking of the year, while in the women’s 800, Lorea Ibarzabal will try to to compete with the Beninese Noélie Yarigo, second in the world ranking in 2023, and the Kenyan Mary Moraa, world bronze in the open air, and in the 60 m, Jaël Bestué will try to repeat her success from last weekend.
