Jaël Bestué is one of those athletes who leaves no one indifferent. Endowed with extraordinary physical conditions and with a freshness and naturalness that conquer anyone, the Catalan has made the second best race of her life in 200 meters this Wednesday (22.58) to slip through the front door of the positions in the semifinals that They will be played this Thursday and it was done in the midst of suffocating heat that will mark the remaining days with force.
The explanations of the women’s 800 trio after their elimination
The Catalan was the only positive note of a gray morning at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in which the eight hundredth-year-olds Lorea Ibarzabal, Daniela García and Lorena Martín have fallen plus the disappointing performance of another Catalan like Jaime Guerra with some sad 7.35 and two null in the long jump classification.
And be careful, because the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou (8.25) has had a very dangerous rival in the figure of the Jamaican Wayne Pinnock with the 8.54 of his first jump that places him as the leader of the year. With a best mark of 8.14 made this summer, Guerra debuted with a null, jumped 7.35 and stepped inside the line again in the third. He would have been worth jumping 8.01 to be in the final.
Returning to the joy of Wednesday, Bestué started with the fourth best mark of the year in the series that opened the 200 (22.54), but from the first moment she was determined not to wait for the playoffs and ran fresh and at the same time aggressive. So much so that she got the pass as third ‘rapping’ until performing 22.58, just four hundredths of his personal record and 20 of the national record that the Hispanic-American Sandra Myers has held since 1990. And it was that music that she helped to make it come out very plugged in.
The semifinals will be another song with seven athletes who have dropped this year from 22.15 with special mention for the hectometre champion Sha’Carri Richardson (21.94), for the American Gabby Thomas (21.60), for the Jamaican Shericka Jackson (21.71) and for the surprising Julien Alfred, from the Virgin Islands (21.91).
Jaël Bestué is a music lover who completed primary school to become a saxophonist and he has even exhibited his skills in small celebrations, especially family ones. And so she isolates herself before competing. “I have several lists, it depends on the ‘mood’ (mood) that I have each day. Today I started calmly on the bus and then I have been activating with a little rap before leaving,” he confessed to the Spanish press in the mixed zone .
“My sensations have been very good after in the semifinals of 100 I did not give my best version. I didn’t get tense, I had a good race and it’s one of my best times ever, so I’m very happy. The 100 depends on more things, on making a good start and there is more tension. And in ‘2’ I feel I have a much greater margin, I also run a lot from the pitch and I think there is room for improvement. What comes out we’ll see”, continued the blaugrana.
And he also spoke about the temperatures and the feeling of suffocation that reigns in the National Athletics Center in Budapest. “The heat affects a lot. They call us to the camera half an hour before, so we have to start almost two hours before competing and we have to hydrate ourselves. In the first 100 I noticed it a lot, but not so much today. Regarding the race, I’ve looked at the times to see how I could get the big Q. It was the fourth and I was thinking about going through times, but look…”, added Bestué.
2023-08-23 12:00:18
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