Spain ended sixth in the European Championship of Athletics Selectionsdisputed in Madrid, Four fantastic days between the Royal Palace with the pole and Vallehermoso for the rest of the tests.
The last day was very exciting, with ups and downs, with moments when it seemed that the dream of getting on the podium in this team competition for the first time was close, but escaped. The afternoon, very hot, served to Jaël Bestué He took another step in his career, one that can allow him to say (a little more, because he was already) in the speed elite. Member of the fantastic short relay that shone in the World Cup in last May (they were silver), they have confirmed in Madrid the progression of teams, and on Saturday in the 4×100 they beat the record of Spain (42.11). I kissed has also passed to the next level in the individual.
Runner -up of the U18 world in the 200 meters, in 2017, when he was 16, he had to deal with a series of injuries, and a hip operation, which, if they delayed his rise, although they also made it mature, as she has confessed. In the 200 meters of Madrid, it started from 8th Street. He had no references, ahead only the horizon, the curve, no athletewhich says he doesn’t like it … Well, less badly. He rang out and the Catalan came out strong. So strong, it seemed that I could pay it when the loss of speed came. “I listened to the public and thought:” I have to continue, I have to continue … “”, he confessed in TVE. And he continued, to stop the clock at 22.19.
He put his hands to his head because he could barely believe it. After a while, he still did not do it. I don’t know when I will be able to repeat this, “he said. But having already done it already shows that it is a record that is on your legs, and that it can even improve.
It would have been third in the Paris Games
To put in context: with that brand, in the last Paris games it would have been bronze, something unusual in a speed test in Spanish athletics. In the last World Cup, where the whole podium fell from 22 seconds, it would have served to be sixth, therefore, be among the best. And that brand, the best of your life, serves to exceed the record of Spain, which was in the hands of Sandra Myers, with 22.38, since the last century, since 1990.
Jaël Besué was already in the Tokyo and Paris games. Athletics is his life, but he has more concerns. He studies medicine and up to 12 he was at the conservatory, with the saxo as an instrument. Leg talent, with your fingers and head.
