Light Marina Castro he threw himself on the track as he passed the finish of the 400m hurdles and crossed himself. The clock indicated that he had passed 1 minute, 07 seconds, 31 hundredths (he was two hundredths away from Everlis Ospino’s departmental record in 2007 Bucaramanga). He threw himself on his face and turned and looked at the sky with outstretched arms, longing for breath and an illuminated platform moved by his race, he said:
“My God, how did I do this,” said Luz Marina.
No one expected his victory. Neither did Joan Manga who counted eight workouts in 45 days of his direction in that test. Therefore, he jumped from the stands and sought her with the emotion of the first coach to have his first U-18 national champion.
Luz Marina also had no affection for the full-lap race with obstacles. She is lactating and says her thing is speed, the 110m hurdles that impacted a win in a division match against the youthful Miriam, and in the sub-18 she was fourth (15 seconds 51 hundredths).
On Saturday before the 400m hurdles started, he tried 4 times the start they didn’t give him for the first hurdle. “I didn’t feel tired and the final didn’t have a semi-final. We ran as one.”
From track two and with three rivals in the streets above, Castro started and passed all gates with ease with his left leg, and after six he took the lead on the first straight of the track. Luz Marina entered the last 90 meters and two obstacles to overcome. She went forward, with Sayuri Rentería from Valleuca and Laura Palacios from Antioquia in tow, and won.
On the podium, yesterday with a blazing sun behind him, listening to the Atlántico song in the stadium and with the medal on his chest, his smile, black eyes that he opens to confirm that he has run those last 10 meters “if the last one alive”, he was moved as his first race victory was seen by his grandmother Luz Sáenz from the stands and by the chemistry teacher Saúl Mejía.
“When I got home, my grandmother walked down the street and said to all the neighbors, ‘Say hello to the champion.’ My grandfather, who I don’t know why he wouldn’t go, wept with emotion when he saw the video of the race. My father called me from Panama, my mother, who was in Taganga with my sister. I slept well that night.”
Luz Marina Castro has completed just three races of 400m hurdles and is already the U-18 champion.
Source: El heraldo
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