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Just finished watching the Italian and Spanish Indoor Championships and they were very enjoyable with a lot of good names and top athletes in action. There was some doubling in the distances too, e.g., Ludovica Cavalli, Federica del Buono & Marta Garcia.
In Madrid there was also 3 National Records plus one absolutely amazing race you have to watch, the Men's 800 final - probably the best race there'll be all indoor season! Before you read on (spoiler below), watch that at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLbZkAEeOM
Italian Championships
Women
400: 1 Folorunso 52.28 iPB. There was 2 or 3 indoor PBs behind her as well.
1500: See post # 36
3000: 1 Ludovica Cavalli completing the double (Battocletti absent). 9:14 winning time but a 29.0 last 200
60H: See post # 37
TJ: 1 Dariya Derkach 14.12, 2 Ottavia Cestonaro 14.11 iPB
PV: 1 Roberta Bruni 4.62 iPB ... 3 Giulia Valetti Borgnini 4.42 (a 12cm outright PB for this 21yo)
Men
60: 1 Samuele Ceccarelli 6.54 PB, 2 LM Jacobs 6.55
800: 1 Catalin Tecuceanu 1:45.99 iPB, 2 Simone Barontini 1:46.82 iPB
60H: 1 Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli 7.66 PB (Dal Molin 7.54 in the heats; DNS in final)
SP: 1 Fabbri 21.60, 2 Weir 21.46
Spanish Championships
Women
60: 1 Jael Bestue 7.19 PB, 2 Maribel Perez 7.31 (Perez won't be going to Euros this time)
400: 1 Eva Santidrian 53.05 (improved her indoor PB by 1.37s this weekend!)
3000: This was Marta versus Marta (Perez and Garcia). Perez had beaten Garcia by 0.5s when they both got the Euros standard in France a couple of weeks ago. Here, after going through 2000 in 6:22 the last 1000 was fast and furious (2:45-high) and they were neck-and-neck on the final lap until Perez just edged ahead in the final 20m to win by 0.04s.
60H: 1 Xenia Benach 8.07 (8.01 PB in the heats - a qualifier for Stamboul)
LJ: 1 Fatima Diame 6.66
Men
400: 1 Husillos 45.58 iNR, 2 Inaki Canal 45.89 iPB, 3 Manuel Guijarro 46.07 SB and David Garcia 46.60 in the semis (a Spanish U20 indoor record)
800: What a tremendous race, and loaded too! Fast and furious after Mariano Garcia had taken it out at 50.53 at 400, there was the inevitable flailing on the last lap. With 50m to go there was 5 in contention at the front ... 1 Saul Ordonez 1:45.88 iPB CR, 2 Mariano Garcia 1:45.91, 3 Javier Miron 1:45.98 iPB, 4 Adrian Ben 1:46.12 iPB, 5 Elvin Josue Canales 1:46.23 (outright PB by 1.3s !). All 5 were inside the Euros standard but presumably Ben & Canales will miss out.
3000: Mechaal soloed to victory in 7:42.9. He was attacking the CR but missed it by a few tenths.
60H: 1 Enrique Llopis 7.48 =NR, 2 Daniel Cisneros 7.64 PB ... European champ Asier Martinez hit the penultimate hurdle hard
TJ: 1 Jordan Diaz 17.59 - indoor Spanish record
I'm now going to try to watch the Polish, French & Finnish Championships over the next couple of days. I want to be as informed as I possibly can be for the Euro Indoors Prediction Contest !
In Madrid there was also 3 National Records plus one absolutely amazing race you have to watch, the Men's 800 final - probably the best race there'll be all indoor season! Before you read on (spoiler below), watch that at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biLbZkAEeOM
Italian Championships
Women
400: 1 Folorunso 52.28 iPB. There was 2 or 3 indoor PBs behind her as well.
1500: See post # 36
3000: 1 Ludovica Cavalli completing the double (Battocletti absent). 9:14 winning time but a 29.0 last 200
60H: See post # 37
TJ: 1 Dariya Derkach 14.12, 2 Ottavia Cestonaro 14.11 iPB
PV: 1 Roberta Bruni 4.62 iPB ... 3 Giulia Valetti Borgnini 4.42 (a 12cm outright PB for this 21yo)
Men
60: 1 Samuele Ceccarelli 6.54 PB, 2 LM Jacobs 6.55
800: 1 Catalin Tecuceanu 1:45.99 iPB, 2 Simone Barontini 1:46.82 iPB
60H: 1 Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli 7.66 PB (Dal Molin 7.54 in the heats; DNS in final)
SP: 1 Fabbri 21.60, 2 Weir 21.46
Spanish Championships
Women
60: 1 Jael Bestue 7.19 PB, 2 Maribel Perez 7.31 (Perez won't be going to Euros this time)
400: 1 Eva Santidrian 53.05 (improved her indoor PB by 1.37s this weekend!)
3000: This was Marta versus Marta (Perez and Garcia). Perez had beaten Garcia by 0.5s when they both got the Euros standard in France a couple of weeks ago. Here, after going through 2000 in 6:22 the last 1000 was fast and furious (2:45-high) and they were neck-and-neck on the final lap until Perez just edged ahead in the final 20m to win by 0.04s.
60H: 1 Xenia Benach 8.07 (8.01 PB in the heats - a qualifier for Stamboul)
LJ: 1 Fatima Diame 6.66
Men
400: 1 Husillos 45.58 iNR, 2 Inaki Canal 45.89 iPB, 3 Manuel Guijarro 46.07 SB and David Garcia 46.60 in the semis (a Spanish U20 indoor record)
800: What a tremendous race, and loaded too! Fast and furious after Mariano Garcia had taken it out at 50.53 at 400, there was the inevitable flailing on the last lap. With 50m to go there was 5 in contention at the front ... 1 Saul Ordonez 1:45.88 iPB CR, 2 Mariano Garcia 1:45.91, 3 Javier Miron 1:45.98 iPB, 4 Adrian Ben 1:46.12 iPB, 5 Elvin Josue Canales 1:46.23 (outright PB by 1.3s !). All 5 were inside the Euros standard but presumably Ben & Canales will miss out.
3000: Mechaal soloed to victory in 7:42.9. He was attacking the CR but missed it by a few tenths.
60H: 1 Enrique Llopis 7.48 =NR, 2 Daniel Cisneros 7.64 PB ... European champ Asier Martinez hit the penultimate hurdle hard
TJ: 1 Jordan Diaz 17.59 - indoor Spanish record
I'm now going to try to watch the Polish, French & Finnish Championships over the next couple of days. I want to be as informed as I possibly can be for the Euro Indoors Prediction Contest !
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