The Portuguese Isaac Nader will try to confirm his potential in the final of the 1,500 meters of the World Athletics Championships, in Budapest, where Mariana Machado, in the five thousand, will play the semifinals on Wednesday.
The Portuguese program in the Hungarian capital is completed with the presence in the qualifying rounds of Patrícia Silva, in the 800 meters, Lorene Bazolo, in the 200 meters, and Pedro Buaró, in the pole vault.
Isaac Nader reached the final of the 1,500 meters for the first time in a World Championship, already improving his 40th place in Oregon 2022, in the return of the Portuguese to the decisive distance race, 18 years after the last one, when Rui Silva , former coach of the Benfica middle-distance runner, he won the bronze medal in Helsinki 2005.
Under the command of the Spanish Enrique Pascual Oliva, who trained, among others, Fermín Cacho, the 24-year-old athlete from Faro, has already managed to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, with 3:31.49 minutes of his personal record, in Chorzów, Poland.
Before Budapest 2023, Isaac Nader believed he was capable of improving the national record, set by Rui Silva with 3.30.07, 21 years ago, in Monaco, and, both in the qualifying phase and in the semifinals, the comfort of Benfica. middle distance runner, who never risked being left out of the qualifying places, even managing to save himself physically.
Isaac Nader will be one of the 12 athletes who will compete in the 1,500 meter final, starting at 9:15 p.m. local time (8:15 p.m. in Lisbon), starting with the 10th time of the year and the 11th best in history, in a hierarchy without the British Jake Wightman, title champion, and led by the Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Olympic champion and runner-up in the world in this distance.
Shortly before, starting at 7:27 p.m. local time (6:27 p.m.), in a race rescheduled from morning to afternoon due to extreme heat, Sporting de Braga long-distance runner Mariana Machado debuted in Budapest2023 in the second semifinal of the five thousand meters.
The young 22-year-old athlete from Braga is facing her second World Championship, after placing 20th last year, with the 15th best mark of the year in her series, with the aim of improving the 15:15.56 minutes already achieved this year in Karlsruhe. , Germany.
The top eight from each of the semifinals advance to the final.
In the morning, Patrícia Silva, in the 800-meter heats, and Pedro Buaró, in the pole vault, make their World Championship debut, while Lorene Bazolo returns to the National Athletics Center track to compete in the 200-meter series , after Elimination by 100.
Patrícia Silva, 23, will face the fifth of the seven heats, starting at 10:37 (09:37), in which she has the fifth time among those present, looking for the first three places in direct classification or the three fastest among the rest.
The varista Pedro Buaró, 22, needs to exceed his best mark by 15 centimeters to achieve direct classification (5.80), or be among the top 12, in a contest that will begin at 10:15 (09:15). .
After holding his own in the hectometer heats, Lorene Bazolo, who also holds this national record (22.64 seconds), will compete in the second heat of the 200 meter heats, starting at 11:27 (10:27). , having to conquer one of the first three places or one of the six play-offs to reach the semifinals.
Source: TSF
