Spain will have 22 athletes at the Torun Indoor World Championships

Spain will attend the Torun Indoor World Championships (Poland)), which are held from March 20 to 22, with 22 athletes (ten women and twelve men), after the rankings have been updated and more Spaniards have entered the initial team of 13.

In this way, and as the national coach had announced José Peiro On Tuesday, when reporting the pre-list, Guillem Crespí (60 m), Irati Mitxelena (length) and the women’s 4×400 m and mixed 4×400 m relays, classified by ‘Top List’, entered. Paula Sevilla, Blanca Hervás, Rocío Arroyo, Carmen Avilés, Daniela Fra and Ana Prieto will form the first quartet, while Markel Fernández, David García and Gerson Pozo will complete the mixed one.

Furthermore, the updating lists He also gave way to Markel Fernández and David García (400 m), and Pol Oriach (3,000 m), but, however, no to jumpers Jaime Guerra, Hector Santos and Fátima Diame (length), this last World Cup bronze last year.

For his part, Oriach has done so after the resignation of several athletes who preceded him on the list. The European under-20 3,000 hurdles champion in Tallinn 2021 arrives in great form at these World Championships after posting a time of 7:39.10 on February 8 at the Karlsruhe (Germany) rally, the seventh best mark in the Spanish ranking of all time.

The other two beneficiaries of this closing of the ranking are Markel Fernández and David García Zurita, who have achieved a place in the individual 400 meters event although they were already going to compete in the mixed 4×400.