
Sport
Six medals in a successful week for Spanish athletics
MIGUEL OLMEDA
...with a distance of 14.73 metres. The 23-year-old, who was junior world champion in 2012, has now, under the tutelage of retired Cuban track and field athlete Iván Pedroso, come of age and sealed an elusive European Championship win after so many ... for fourth. Minutes later came gold for Jorge Ureña. The heptathlete from Alicante was proclaimed European champion with a total of 6,218 points after coming out on top in the 1,000 metres. He also pipped a British athlete to the post, in this case ... Tim Duckworth who finished on 6,156 points. This was just the third medal won by a Spanish athlete in a combined indoor event after Antonio Peñalver in Genoa 1992 (bronze) and Ureña himself in Belgrade two years ago (silver). A further two medals