The Spanish athletics team has signed its second best performance in history at a World Cup after Birmingham 2003 with six medals, adding five metals: gold of Mariano Garcia in 1,500 meters, silver Quique Llopis in 60 meters fences, bronze Mohamed Attaoui in 800 meters, the silver of the 4×400 meter mixed relay and the bronze of women’s 4×400 meter relay, with a Blanca Hervás who has won two medals.
Four years after Mariano Garcia touched the mid-distance sky with his historic gold in the 800 meters at the Belgrade 2022 World Cup, the Spanish athlete adds the 1,500 meter world title in Torún 2026, becoming the first Spanish athlete to achieve it both outdoors and indoors after a race that he dominated from start to finish to become the world king of the distance.
Historical performance
This gold, without a doubt, crowns the great performance of the Spanish team, surpassing the most favorable forecasts, with a spectacular silver by Quique Llopis in the 60 meter hurdlesthe “most expensive medal in history in the distance”, according to many analysts, and the bronze by Mohamed Attoui in the 800 meters in one final where it went from less to more to play their cards perfectly in their goal of getting on the podium.
To the individual triumphs we must add the two medals in the 4×400 meter relay, both mixed and female, where the figure of Blanca Hervaswho with silver in the mixed and bronze in the women’s has emerged as one of the great stars of the Spanish delegation. The Madrid native touched silver alongside Paula Sevilla, Ana Prieto, Rocio Arroyo almost won silver, and together with Markel Fernández, Paula Sevilla, David García Zurita achieved bronze.
With this action, Spain has achieved its second best performance in an athletics World Cuponly surpassed by the edition disputed in Birmingham in 2003 where they won six medals: the silver from Marta Domínguez and Glorie Alozie in the 3,000 meters and 60 meter hurdles, respectively, and the bronze from Mayte Martínez in the 800 meters, in the female category. In men, Manuel Martínez won a historic gold, and Yago Lamela and Alberto García won the silver medal in the long jump and 3,000 meters respectively.
He growth compared to the last edition held in Nanjing 2025 It is evident, since on that occasion, Spain added three bronzes: Ana Peleteiro, in triple jump, Fátima Diame, in long jump, and Elvin Josué Canales in 800 meters.
Furthermore, the Spanish delegation ended up in eighth position in the overall team classificationalso surpassing the records of the last two World Cups in 2024 and 2025.
