Spain’s Maria Perez Wins 20km Walk for Historic Double Sweep at World Championships

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Perhaps without the seduction so strong that other sectors such as speed can have, and mainly because the passage of the march is not part of the daily life of the people, Spain has a world star in María Pérez, a fact of an incalculable value in this sport so universal and often little understood. wf_cms.rss.read_more

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Spain's Maria Perez won her second gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. She triumphed in the 20 km race walk on the penultimate day of the championships, after already winning the 35 km walk.

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An acceleration, sheer physical strength, courage, legs and lungs, and a yellow card. At kilometer 16, María Pérez abruptly resolved her duel with Mexican Alegna González and marched imperially back to Tokyo Olympic Stadium, where she got at the cool and cloudy dawn of Tokyo—the rising sun swirling in the clouds after a rainy night—the victory in the 20-kilometer race march. It is the second gold medal of the Orce Marcher (Granada), already Olym…

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They fear the black hands that hang on the march and threaten to make it disappear after the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. If that happens, what will become of...

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Another lightning strike. Another devastating attack to continue writing history. Just a week after his exhibition in the 35 kilometers march, María Pérez again magnified her legend by also revalidating the world title in the 20 kilometers. Second consecutive doublet after the one signed in Budapest in 2023. New feat that makes her a tetra-champion of the world.The best Spanish athlete of all time.The accumulated mileage did not pass bill to the…