The athlete from Palencia Jose San Pastor This Saturday he became the second Spanish athlete to get a medal in the decathlon of the U-20 World Cups by hanging the bronze in Nairobi with a sum of 7,430 points, a new record for Spain in the category.
The world title went to the Czech Frantisek Doubek with 8,169 points and the silver medal for the Belgian Jente Hauttekeete with 8,053.
It was the third medal for Spain, which was absent from the medal table of the last two editions of the U-20 World Cups. The Basque also took the podium in Nairobi Tessy ebosele (silver in triple) and Paul mcgrath (bronze in 10,000 m march).
Before San Pastor, only pontevedrés David gomez (silver in Santiago de Chile 2000) had won a medal in the combined of a U-20 World Cup.
In the absence of the closing race, the 1,500 meters, the first three positions of the decathlon were quite defined, and San Pastor was still in a position to beat Spain’s record of Eusebio Cáceres (7.396, Alicante, 9.5.2009). His mark of 5: 06.13 in the 1,500 was enough to surpass the record of the athlete from Onil, who has been fourth in the Olympic length final in Tokyo 2020.
In other Saturday finals, the Aragonese Pol Oriach he qualified fourth in 1,500 with a mark of 3: 40.36, 14 hundredths behind the bronze medal. The victory went to the Kenyan Vincent Keter with 3: 37.24. Monzón’s was the first non-African in the race.
In 800 meters, Marina Martínez, who on Friday had won her semi-final with 2: 07.22, finished sixth in the last race with a time of 2: 06.42. The Ethiopian won Ayal dagnachew with 2: 02.96.