This Saturday a shower of medals fell for Spain. An especially intense tornado during the morning, since In just two hours – those that the triathlon took – they won three: gold, silver and bronze. Just a few minutes later they arrived other two golds in athletics and, to close the morning shift, a bronze in speed for track cycling teams. That is, six metals in just four hours. To these should be added another silver in swimming during the afternoon. So that just this super saturday the same medals as the previous three days of competition have been achieved. Our athletes had hung seven medals – five of them from the pool – between Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Few days are remembered as prolific for Spain in some Games. The triathlon promised joys and fulfilled. The first medal to fall was the bronze of Alex Sánchez Palomero in the PTS4 category, with a time of 1: 04.24 and placing behind the French Alexis Hanquinquant and the Japanese Hideki Uda. Shortly after the silver of Héctor Catalá and his guide Gustavo RodrÃguez in PTVI (1:02 “11), only surpassed by the Americans Brad Snyder and Greg Billington. Soon, it was the turn of the gold of Susana RodrÃguez and her guide Sara Loehr, who crossed the finish line with a mark of 1.07’15 “, beating the Italians in PTVI.
With hardly any respite and in another part of the city a new storm broke out. Our athletics were made with two golds. Yassine Ouhadi he rose to the precious metal in the 5,000-meter test in the T13 class, after a race in which the time was stopped at 14: 34.13, more than a second ahead of Australian Jaryd Clyfford. For its part, Kim lopez He was crowned the F12 shot put champion and broke his own world record (17.04 meters) on the fifth attempt, thus revalidating his Rio 2016 title.
Late in the morning Alfonso Cabello, Ricardo Ten and Pablo Jaramillo got a bronze in the C1-5 speed by teams. The Spanish had qualified with the third best time in the series with 49,571 and already in the fight for the bronze they defeated France with a time of 49,209. Although in judo and athletics there were options to increase loot, it was swimming that allowed Spain to close the day with 14 medals. Toni Ponce he hung a silver in the 100-meter breaststroke SB5, coming behind the Russian Andrei Granichka.