Saturday, September 20, 2025, 02:43
He threw the cap when he entered the stadium and removed his glasses to savor those 300 meters towards glory, towards the place reserved for the great legends of athletics. In the goal it jumped as a year ago at the Paris Games and uncovered all the joy that had contained in 20 kilometers march full concentration. María Pérez (29 years old) is no longer a history of athletics after adding her fourth world worldwide gold, she is from Spanish sport because she has earned it. The challenge that Orce’s grenadine was capitalized, trying to revalidate something as complicated as the double 20-35 kilometers he made two years ago in Budapest. But in Tokyo it has done it, and in a way that something so difficult has seems that adding four consecutive medals seems to something simple. But not. There is a lot of work and a lot of talent after those successes. After the tremendous exhibition last Saturday in the long distance, today Maria has had to chop stone to bend the resistance of the Mexican Alekna González, to which she has lying based on the individual. They have not been the three minutes with which he surpassed Alessandra Palmisano in 35. Today there have been 12 seconds, enough for María Pérez to have savored that second return to the consecutive stadium in champion mode.
It goes without saying that María Pérez is already within Spanish athletics who has more golds in World Cups. But it is that these four golds place it on a list full of names of legends of this sport. Allyson Felix is the queen with 14 golds. The product of her versatility, while Usain Bolt has eleven, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has ten, Lashawn Merritt, Carl Lewis and Michael Jhonson have eight, Noah Lyles Seven, Mo Farah Six, Gail Devers five and from here a large group with four gold GEBRSELASSIE, Ezequiel Kemboi, Justin Gatlin, Jearl Miles/Clark and from today an orce grenadine trained by Jacinto Garzón who has been persecuted for a few years to become the best marching in the history of the World Cups.
Another fact to reflect what María Pérez has done in Tokyo? The marching is the fourth athlete in history to repeat the two golds in two World Cups. The other three are Carl Lewis, Mo Farah and Usain Bolt. And the fifth can be Faith Kipyegon if he wins the 5,000 meters to Beatrice Chebet.
The way to the elite
After her continental title in 2018, María Pérez lived bitter moments such as fourth place at the Tokyo Olympic Games – although her test was played in Sapporo – and the problems with the technique in 2022. That took her member and her and her to consult the best, and since then the Spanish seems unstoppable. Double title in Budapest’23, gold and silver in the Paris games and double title again in Tokyo’25. And that after the Olympic appointment La Grenadina, according to his coach, took a respite to assimilate what he had achieved and then take impulse again towards new challenges, which passed through the Japanese capital. The preparation could not be more appropriate, seen the results.
In addition to his personal successes, María Pérez has become the livelihood of Spanish athletics, which once again finds her space to shine through the inexhaustible school of March. Darkened so far in the World Cup in the rest of the competitions for the great powers, it is to reach the march tests and appear in the medal. Maria premiered it for Spain in the Tokyo World Cup and Maria herself has added the second gold to that medallero that seemed stagnant.
And how was this new victory of Granada? At certain times, very similar to that of the 35 kilometers march. A elimination test where Kimberly García, the Peruvian has been very active and where the main fear was the 20 km Olympic champion in Paris, the Chinese Jiayu Yang. But the work of the Peruvian, helped at certain times by the Spanish, and especially the appearance at the head of Mexican González have been decisive for the final result. It has been by passing 15 when the rhythm has increased, eliminating the Olympic champion itself. By then there was no longer a Palmisano who has ended up retiring, and gold has remained in a hand in hand between González and María Pérez. But as in the 35 kilometers, the Spanish has taken a new twist to the rhythm and has taken a few definitive meters, despite the resistance of the Mexican. No one stopped her in her march towards the goal, under the shouts of mood of a fundamental Garzón Jacinto in these four granadine titles. The two form a gold duo for Spanish sport.
After winning, María Pérez has reunited her friend Alessandra Palmisano, the Italian Olympic champion in Tokyo’20, who has been in charge of giving the Spanish flag to Pérez to give the return of honor after hugging with Antia Chamosa, the other Spanish who has been a brilliant seventh classified.
