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World Athletics Indoor Meeting Madrid – report
the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Madrid saw several world-leading marks and national records fall on Wednesday (28 Feb).
Spain’s Mario García Romo set a world-leading mark of 3:30.65 to win the men’s 1000m. He was closely followed by Ireland’s Cian McPhillips (3:31.26) and Great Britain’s George Mills (3:31.92). (Original text had 67m, which is clearly an error. Corrected to 3:30.65 based on results from World Athletics)
The other world-leading mark of the meeting came from USA’s Jordan Geist, who equalled his season’s best of 22.04m to win the men’s shot put.
It was a thrilling contest throughout, between Geist, US compatriot Roger Steen and Jamaica’s Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell.Geist took the lead in the opening round with 21.56m, but Steen responded with 21.80m in round two.
The fireworks came in round four when Campbell produced a season’s best of 21.94m to move into the lead, but Geist regained first place with 22.04m, equalling the world-leading mark he set in Ostrava three days ago.
After two high-quality races in the 60m hurdles heats – won by France’s world indoor silver medallist Wilhem Belocian (7.51) and Spain’s Enrique Llopis (7.49) – the final didn’t disappoint.
Llopis not only emerged victorious – much to the delight of the home crowd – he also set a national record by three hundredths with 7.45, the second-fastest performance on this season’s world list.Llopis prevailed over Italy’s european champion Lorenzo Simonelli (7.50), USA’s Jamal britt (7.51) and Belocian (7.54).
Haylom and Werro win again
Just days after notching up victories in other World Indoor Tour meets,Ethiopia’s Birke Haylom and switzerland’s Audrey Werro triumphed again in the middle-distance events.
In the women’s 1500m, Haylom tracked the pacemakers for most of the way. She was briefly overtaken by world and Olympic medallist Nadia Battocletti with about 320m to go, but Haylom regained the lead and went on to win comfortably in 4:02.37. Battocletti held on for second, equalling Marta Zenoni’s Italian record of 4:03.59, while Ethiopia’s Saron Berhe was third (4:04.39).
The women’s 800m may not have been as fast as anticipated, but it ended with a close finish between Werro and world indoor silver medallist Nigist Getachew. Neither athlete followed the pacemaker, reaching halfway just inside 59 seconds with Getachew ahead. Werro eventually passed the Ethiopian on the home straight to win narrowly, 2:00.68 to 2:00.76.
Spain’s European U23 silver medallist Rocío Arroyo was the fastest athlete winning the earlier B race in a lifetime best of 1:59.97.
The men’s 3000m was won by South Africa’s Tshepo Tshite on his second appearance over the distance in 7:39.11, ahead of Uruguay’s Valentin Soca (7:39.98), who edged Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale (7:39.98) in the closing stages.
European indoor champion Lieke Klaver had suggested at the pre-event press conference that she could produce a strong performance following her 51.00 season debut three