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The covered track<\/strong> Grandchild <\/strong>will host this weekend a great meeting of athletics stars <\/strong>in the most important championship of the first part of the season, the World Cup short track<\/em>. <\/p>\n And in that constellation, two stars shine above the rest, the Swedish jumper Mondo Duplantis and the British runner Keely Hodgkinson, who dominate their events with a lot of superiority<\/strong> and who arrive in Poland after beating the world records <\/strong>of the pole vault and the 800 m, respectively.<\/p>\n There is little to say about Duplantis <\/strong>after a week ago he raised the pole to 6.31 meters, which was his 15th record in the specialty. The Swede competes more than anything against gravity and the limits of the human being. And this winter the Greek Emmanouil Karalis has come a little closer to him with a jump of 6.17 m, which has placed him as the second best of all time (above the legendary Sergey Bubka).<\/p>\n By the way, it was precisely in Torun, at the 2020 World Tour rally – the Copernicus Cup – that he broke for the first time the world record that he has since raised. centimeter by centimeter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n As to Keely Hodgkinson <\/strong>It is worth remembering that at 24 years old he already has a dream track record with medals in the last two Games and three outdoor World Cups in the 800 m. And this despite the fact that injuries have hampered him for some seasons and have meant that he has not yet made his debut in a world championship. indoor<\/em>. <\/p>\n This Hodgkinson course is in top shape<\/strong>as he demonstrated at the Li\u00e9vin (France) meeting just a month ago, when he destroyed the stopwatch with a record of 1:54.87, almost one second faster than the previous record <\/strong>indoor track that the Slovenian Jolanda Ceplak established coincidentally on the same day that her heiress<\/em>March 4 in 2002<\/strong>. <\/p>\n With that record, the next on the list of entries by brand of the season is almost three seconds behind the Olympic champion in Paris 2024.<\/p>\n Thus, Duplantis and Hodgkinson are at another level right now, but there are more athletes who want to be protagonists in this World Athletics Championships in Kujawy Pomorze, the official name of the championship after the name of the province in northern Poland in which Torun is located (in Spanish, Cuyavia and Pomerania).<\/p>\n Among them we must highlight Yulimar Rojas, who hopes to return under his jurisdiction. after rupturing his Achilles tendon in 2024<\/strong>. The Venezuelan He has already covered 15 meters <\/strong>in the Spanish Club Cup, which places her once again as the outstanding leader of the triple jump, although in this championship she will have many rivals, starting with the Cuban Leyanis P\u00e9rez Hern\u00e1ndez and the Dominican Thea LaFond, who shared the big titles in the last two seasons.<\/p>\n Also planned is a great duel in the high jump <\/strong>between the Australian Nicola Olyslagers, last year’s indoor and outdoor world champion, and the Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Olympic champion and record holder in the event, who will want to get even for her defeats in 2025 and recover the ‘indoor’ gold she achieved in 2022. For her part, the Oceanic will seek to score her third consecutive indoor title in her notebook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As for the Spanish, it is surely worth highlighting Enrique Llopis<\/strong>regular like few others. Fourth in the Paris Games and the Tokyo World Championships, the Valencian has continued to improve this year and has broken the Spanish record in the 60 m hurdles.<\/p>\n \t\tQuique Llopis breaks the Spanish record of 60 m hurdles at the Madrid rally<\/span><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n Despite this, his mark of 7.45 places him fifth among those registered and some distance from the favorites, three athletes who arrive with 7.37, the Polish Jakub Szyma\u0144ski and the Americans Dylan Beard and Trey Cunningham. “I think it is the most expensive championship in history”<\/strong>Llopis commented to RTVE just before traveling to Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n Of course, another medal contender is Moha Attaoui<\/strong>with as much class as charisma. The Cantabrian will be supported in the 800 by Elvin Josu\u00e9 Canales, who won bronze last year at the World Cup. indoor<\/em> from Nanjing \/ Nanjing, although this time the level is much higher.<\/p>\n In addition, Spain will have options to go up in the women’s 4×400 m relay<\/strong>which will be led by Paula Sevilla <\/strong>and for the brand new national champion Blanca Hervas<\/strong>. Depending on the team’s strategy and other circumstances, the possibilities in the mixed 4×400 should not be ruled out either, the novelty in the championship program in its 21st edition. By the way, the other big news is that the 400 finals will be divided into two heats only on the outside streets (to reduce the disadvantage of running on the inside streets). The one with the best time will win, whether in series A or series B.<\/p>\n And among the greats of Spanish athletics, Marta Garc\u00eda also deserves special attention, who aspires to “continue progressing” in the 3,000 and repeat a top-8<\/em>.<\/p>\nYulimar Rojas wants to win again<\/h2>\n
The stars of Spanish athletics<\/h2>\n