It is the beginning of a great era, Paula Sevilla proclaims in canton.
“Women to power!”, Shouts, powerful, Daniela Fra, who, ironically, of course, steals from men their typical condescension, and adds: “But not just us. They also run and they all strive all.” Eva Santidrián also sympathizes with them: “encouragement, guys, that opportunities are not over. Many bullets remain.” Blanca Hervás smiles wide, as he always smiles when the first, his classic Hellenic profile, treno, tense, long and fine legs, high hips, and knees, as if the ceramists who cooking centuries ago the ceramic vessels representing the athletes of the Olympic Games of antiquity would have been inspired by their figure.
It is euphoria. Apotheosis. They are 4×400 relay. A few minutes after the 4×100 companions and both of the two and both of the long mixed relay —Blanca Hervás, which repeats; The Cordoba Carmen Avilés, the Canary Samuel García and the Extremadura David García Zurita -, she has also classified in the relay World Cups to play the Athletics World Cups of Tokyo, which will be in September. The world observes surprised and has the fingers, almost deafen by the rumble of the actions of Spanish athletics, so far fertile terrain for the march and the middle background, which suddenly awakens sprinter, and spectacularly feminine. The photos of the Hispanic, expansive joys, dominate the information of the World Cups on the World Athletics website, the International Federation.
As God of the Holy Trinity would say, the four are one and each one is each, so united, in taste and in attitude, so different are its origins, and are mixed in periodic concentrations of the National Relay Plan, where, directed by Toni Puig, they work, together with those of the short, the synchronization and the speed in the passage of the witness. Blanca Hervás, 22, is from Majadahonda, on the outskirts of Madrid, trains in Madrid with Julio Rifaterra and has studied baccalaureate and a couple of years of university in Miami, where he has grown as a athlete, always 400m, the specialty they practice, in smooth and with fences, the current stellar figures of the Atlétic Dutch Femke Bol. Eva Santidrián, 25, is from Burgos and trains in Valladolid, while Paula Sevilla, 27, Manchega de la Solana, runs 200m and 400m, is a tireless bullet in both relays, the curve in the short, the exit in the length, and in both groups, women who love each other, is the explosive reagent, the spark, the spark Bald. Daniela Fra is from Arroyomolinos, another suburb of Madrid, and trains her, and is the exception, a woman, Angels Guerra, who was her gymnastics professor at the Institute and presides over the local athletics club, and the eve of the final makes a video call from Aroyomolinos to cheer her up. “Tomorrow, when you win, think of women who have made their way,” he asks, convinced that they will give “pepinazo, and so pichis,” and the emotion overflows her. “When I called me I was in the room with Eva and Blanca,” says Fra, 25, “and we all feel how angels was excited, because I also talked about herself, about the dreams she couldn’t have when I was athlete, a Valledus like me.”
“I was talking about me, my experience as an exatleta of fences and as the only woman coach in the group of all relief,” says Ángeles Guerra, 56, whose figure, in a certain way, symbolizes the evolution of the weight of women in athletics. “I simply, I told them that they were going to give the Pepinazo, that I knew it, and that I was not going to cry then, but the next day, when they won. And I asked them to remember those who had made its way, because I experienced in my own meats the obstacles that women should overcome.” Guerra, from Obrera Family, could never be fully devoted to athletics, a sport from which very few, only stars, can live, and has suffered the condescension of the male in athletics, a sport that at the technical levels is almost entirely masculine. “Formerly, and even today, athletes are men, and athletes, girls … man is never fat, simply strong; the girls, on the other hand, are fat … is changing her eyes, yes, but there are still some rancids.”
To the classification for Tokyo, already expected, as it is an expert quartet that already made the leap to the elite finishing fifths in the final of the Eugene World Cup, in 2022, the four of the short relay – the debutant Mallorquina Esperança Cladera, a 200m specialist for the first curve; The Catalan Jaël Besué, spectacular in the time trial (10.11s thrown) in beautiful struggle with the Jamaican goddess, Shelly Ann Fraser; La Manchega de la Solana Paula Sevilla, who makes the second curve a line (10.28s) so atomic that the first to the fourth reliever, the Sevillian, Maribel Pérez (10,22s) – Brittany and the Jamaican inheritance of their athletes, but ahead of the Inabordable American and Jamaican.
Those of the 4×400, while, are shown at the height of the expectations that created in the recent championships of Spain on covered track – the four below 52s, a full unthinkable – and that maintained with a fourth painful fourth place in the Europeans of Apeldoorn. And even more. They define themselves Golden Bubblesgolden, evanescent bubbles such as those of champagneand have achieved the Jackpot They have won the final and, in addition, they have broken the record of Spain (3m 24,13s, 11th best brand in the world in the last decade), and the day after returning to Spain since the distant China, the four, next to the three of the 4×100 – Paula Sevilla, explosive reagent, participates in the two distances – are the stars in the revoltTop Prime Time For women athletes who fully claim their transcendence beyond their mere sporting value.
The brave analysis follow each other, the value of planning and concentrations, the commitment of the Federation for the relays, a specialty in which both brands and the technique of the witness passage are worth, and that makes four women of 11.20s better and good technique that four of 10.90s and scarce synchronization, and that makes the women of 400, the four below 52s and above 52s. specialty in which the best fall regularly from the 50s. “And I do not take value to the plan, quite the opposite. But it works with the raw material that the coaches prepared daily,” says Ángeles Guerra, that the last season ran out of track to train because that of his Aroyomolinos was in works, and had to multiply to find alternatives. “If there were no four 51s athletes that feed each other, there would be no plan or anything.”
Human analyzes prefer to talk about figures such as Daniela Fra, 400m athlete, with fences and without fences, 1.77m, skinny, very high hips, very long legs to the femke bowl, their contemporary (born both in February 2000 with a week of difference), with a degree in Sports Sciences, a student of a master of sports management and coach of children in the Club de Arroyomolinos. In the Canton final, last Sunday, covering the third post, received the witness from Eva Santidrián in second position and 50.91s later delivered it, and first, Blanca Hervás. “I felt an equal to fight from you with everyone,” he says. “Simply, we have achieved it because we have believed it.”
Guerra remembers Daniela Fra, a 15 -year -old girl in her class, and thought that with how skinny she would do nothing, but she admired how she moved. “I am a Valleista, I have been a Valleista, I train Vallerists. And I put Daniela with fences and won everyone, as Pichi, as who does not want the thing,” he recalls Guerra, who competes in a master’s degree and also trains his daughter, Carmen Sánchez Guerra. “A priori it is not as talented as Eve or white, but it is the best technique, and a brutal plant. The relationship between legs and trunk is magnificent, and in the studies they do in the concentrations they have proven that it has the longest stride, 20 centimeters more than the next one. It has made a great leap of quality. It already has a nutritionist. He is champion of Spain of 400m fences, and I am convinced that this summer will beat the record National, the 54,34s of Sara Gallego. ”
And then, without fences, the entire smooth track awaits all the full moon, the European team that will be played in Vallehermoso by San Juan. It will be the snack of his trip in September, the World Cup in the Olympic track. And there, the stars.
