SportsSpain sees the trump card of Maria Perez vanish in the World Cup

Spain sees the trump card of Maria Perez vanish in the World Cup

The Spanish Maria Perez at the 2022 World Cup – RFEA

MADRID, July 15 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish Maria Perez ended up disqualified this Friday in the 20-kilometer walk test of the 2022 World Cup that is being held in Eugene, Oregon (United States), weighed down by a two-minute penalty in the first half of the test that the Peruvian won Kimberly Garcia Leon.

The Granada-born woman was penalized by the judges with three cards, two in a row, which sent her to the pit lane for two minutes in the seventh kilometer. There the medal options of one of the best tricks of Spain in the World Cup disappeared.

Perez, fourth in the Tokyo 2020 Games, arrived at the event with the second best time of the year and initially showed it in the leading group that formed after 1,000 meters of running, with the Chinese Shijie Qieyang, Hong Liu, Zhenxia Ma, Quanming Wu, the Australian Jemima Montag, the Mexican Alegna Gonzalez, the Polish Katarzyna Zdzieblo and the Peruvian Kimberly Garcia Leon.

The one-kilometer circuit on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, very close to the Hayward Field stadium where the World Cup is held, made the start screening, but the movements in the lead were not long in coming. Of the 41 athletes, the gold and silver began to be raffled between Garcia Leon and Qieyang reaching the third kilometer. The Spanish, European champion four years ago, received the first notice of her while she saw the gold escape at half a minute and the medal at 11, also tied little by little by the Polish Zdzieblo.

The group broke up but the chase had no effect. Then, the national record holder found herself with those sanctions almost in a row and the surprise when passing through the ‘pit lane’ of having to stop for two minutes. The judges, who ended up eliminating many athletes, stopped Maria in her tracks, who resumed the race with strength already for all, climbing a dozen positions.

However, the Granada woman ended up disqualified at kilometer 14 for not stretching her leg, fourth and final card, just when the battle for gold began in the lead. Qieyang had tried the Peruvian, but it was the American who hit the table until achieving a historic gold for her country.

And it is that, the metal of Garcia Lopez is the first in the history of Peru in a World Athletics Championship, champion with a time of 1:26.58. Qieyang was overtaken by Zdzieblo, the Polish silver and the Chinese bronze. For Spanish athletics, a jug of cold water since, even if it is only the beginning, Maria Perez’s was a serious medal option, of which she does not have many Spain in Eugene.

Source: Europa Press

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