World-class at WIT Gold Madrid 2025
This Friday we will enjoy the final of the World Indoor Tour Goldin Madrid, which will be held on February 28 at the Gallur track, with the presence of current indoor world champions. This event will bring together the best athletes on the planet and will be the perfect setting for races and competitions that promise strong emotions. It will be in the final of the prestigious World Indoor Tour Gold where the athletes, in addition to the $10000 prize, will fight for the Wild Cardto attend the World Indoor Championships to be held in Nanjing at the end of March, with the winner of the circuit taking it. Everything to be decided on the Gallur tartan, which gave us such good results last week in the national short track championship.
60m women
We will see the brand new Spanish record holder Maribel Pérez (7.15, 7.15) after having run very fast in Gallur a week ago in the national short track championships, where she broke the Spanish record by leaving it at 7.15, taking the gold. She faces high-calibre women such as the new national record holder from Luxembourg, Patrizia Van der Weken (7.07, 7.07), the only woman in this race under the 7.10 barrier, as well as the very young U20 world vice-champion Torrie Lewis (7.14, 7.14), who made her debut this year in the 60m indoor event and was already in the semi-finals of the 200m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Alongside them, the Portuguese Lorène Bazolo (7.17, 7.22), the Belgian Delphine Nkansa (7.17, 7.17), and the English Bianca Williams (7.19, 7.19) as other rivals who already know what it is like to run under 7.20 throughout their sporting careers.
60m hurdles men
A high-level event awaits us in the men's 60m hurdles, an event that will always be remembered for what the American Grant Holloway did four years ago when he broke the world indoor record. Just a few days ago we saw great records in the national Short Track on this same track, where Abel Jordán (7.53, 7.53) broke the spanish under-23 record. He will face Enrique Llopis (7.48, 7.50) again, who has been trying to break the Spanish record that he shares with Orlando Ortega all season, along with Asier Martínez (7.49, 7.64), in search of his best version after his setback in the semi-finals in Madrid. The American Dylan Beard (7.38, 7.38), who has the second best world record of the year, will be his main rival, as will Wilhelm Belocian (7.42, 7.46), another man who already knows what it is like to go below 7.50 this year.
400m men
At international level, the men's 400m will have top-class representation. Competing will be Hungarian Attila Molnár (45.08, 45.08), who has already amazed us this season by almost breaking the 45 seconds mark with 45.08, a time that is currently the third best in the world. He will face men such as Liemarvin Bonevacia (45.48) from the Netherlands, Olympic silver medallist in the 4x400m at Tokyo 2021, as well as sixth Olympian with the Dutch mixed 4x400m team and eighth in the 400 metres at the same Games. Alongside them will be American Brian Faust (45.47, 45.90), Swiss Lionel Spitz (46.14, 46.86) and Ricky Petrucciani (46.27, 46.47), among others. As for the Spanish representation, we will have big names such as Óscar Husillos (45.58, 46.36) and Iñaki Cañal (45.74, 45.74). We will see the duel between both of them again on the same track where two years ago Husillos broke the national record, leaving it at 45.58. In addition, just a week ago, Cañal himself was crowned Spanish short track champion in Gallur, running the second best time in history with 45.74. Also present will be Markel Fernández (46.24, 46.24), silver in the national championship a week ago, and Manuel Guijarro (46.02, 46.27), bronze, as well as Bernat Erta (46.23, 46.30) and the young Spanish under-23 indoor champion Gerson Pozo (46.29, 46.29).
800m women
The women's 800m promises to be a great spectacle, with athletes of great international renown. We will have Noélie Yarigo (1:58.48, 2:03.01), the athlete from Benin who won bronze at the last indoor world championships in Glasgow 2024, an Olympian in Rio 2016 and Paris 2024 and who has not missed any outdoor world championships since 2015 (2015, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023). Alongside her, two other athletes who already know what it means to go under 2 minutes indoors: the Italian Eloisa Coiro (1:59.76, 2:01.64) and the Ethiopian Worknesh Mesele (1:59.93, 2:02.20). The brand new Spanish short track champion Lorea Ibarzabal (2:00.56, 2:02.29), along with bronze winner Daniela García (2:02.99, 2:02.99) and 1500 m vice-champion Marina Martínez (2:05.97) will be the Spanish athletes present at this event.
800m men
This event will not count towards the World Indoor Tour, but we will be able to see the best in the specialty in action. We will have a man who has already gone under 1:45 this year, the American Jonah Koech (1:44.82, 1:44.82). We will see in action three other men who have gone under 1:46 in their sporting careers: the Italian Catalin Tecuceanu (1:45.00, 1:45.35), world indoor finalist in Glasow 2024 and European bronze in Rome 2024, and the Spaniards Álvaro de Arriba (1:45.43, 1:45.84), European indoor champion in 2019, and Adrián Ben (1:45.72), Olympic finalist (2021) and European indoor champion in 2023.
1500m men
A world-class Englishman with times under 3:36 will compete in Gallur: Thomas Keen (3:35.12, 3:35.12), world bronze medallist in the mixed cross-country relay (2024). He will be closely followed by men of the calibre of last year's European vice-champion, the Belgian Jochem Vermeulen (3:36.08, 3:36.08), or the double Olympian in Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024, Ignacio Fontes (3:36.89, 3:37.90).
3000m women
A world indoor champion in the 1500m (2024) and vice-champion in the 800m (2022), as well as an Olympic finalist in Tokyo 2021 (1500m), Ethiopian Freweyni Hailu (8:19.98, 8:19.98) heads the list of runners for the 3000m. Alongside her is the young Ethiopian under-20 short track world record holder who will try to further lower her own mark set just two weeks ago, Birke Haylom (8:25.37, 8:25.37). Her compatriot Lomi Muleta (8:40. 96, 8:40.96) will also compete, the only three women to have dipped below 8:45 this season. A very interesting group of athletes under nine minutes with athletes such as the Italian Federica del Buono (8:48.93, 8:57.88) or the second best Spanish U23 timer, Marta Serrano (8:53.97, 8:53.97). Another Spanish woman who will face world-class rivals again this season in the World Indoor Tour is Carla Gallardo (9:04.40, 9:04.40).
Women's triple jump
Great women's triple jump competition at the 2025 WIT in Madrid, with up to four athletes over 14.50 m. Leading the list of competitors is Leyanis Pérez, the Cuban who knows what it's like to climb onto a world podium, having done so both indoors last year in Glasgow by becoming vice-champion in the world championships, and outdoors a year earlier with her bronze in Budapest. Leyanis is just a breath away from legally surpassing 15 m, although she did so with the help of the wind last year precisely at the Guadalajara Meeting in June with a mark of 15.16 (+2.3). We already saw her jump in Gallur in 2023, finishing second with a best jump of 14.50 m. Alongside Leyanis we will have the european vice-champion in Rome 2024, the Turkish Tugba Danismaz (14.57, 13.79), as well as two other women who have already jumped over 14 metres this year: the Finnish Senni Salminen (14.63, 14.07) and the Slovenian Neja Filipic (14.42, 14.05). There will also be a great deal of equality among the entrants, including the Spanish short track vice-champion Elda Romeva (13.22, 13.22), who is making her debut at a meeting of this calibre.
Men's triple jump
There is a lot of expectation for a world-class triple jump competition, an event that does not count towards the World Indoor Tour. WIT Madrid 2025 will bring together some of the world's greatest triple jumpers, with five of the six athletes entered having personal bests above 17 metres, which guarantees a competition full of spectacle. The list of participants is headed by Burundian Hugues Fabrice Zango (18.07), the athlete who has jumped the furthest indoors in history and who was crowned world champion both indoors in Glasgow 2024 and outdoors in Budapest 2023. He will be joined by Cuban Lázaro Martínez (17.64, 17.03), world vice-champion in Budapest 2023 behind Zango, world indoor champion in Belgrade 2022 and Olympic finalist in both Rio 2016 and Paris 2024. The Algerian, world indoor vice-champion in 2024, Yasser Triki (17.43), Frenchman Thomas Gogois (17.38, 16.83) and Portuguese, bronze medallist at the European Championships in Rome 2024, Tiago Pereira (17.11, 16.44), join a competition that promises to be electrifying. Finally, we have the Spanish short track champion Marcos Ruiz (16.94, 16.78), who is already close to his best level again and will be rubbing shoulders with the best triple jumpers in the world in Gallur.
Women's Shot Put
A highly anticipated duel awaits us in the women's shot put between the American Chase Jackson (20.76, 20.24), two-time world champion and national recordholder, and the Canadian Sarah Mitton (20.68, 20.68), world indoor champion in Glasgow 2024, who has thrown the furthest in the world this year. Joining the shot put party are the former world indoor champion in Belgrade 2022, the Portuguese Auriol Dongmo (20.43, 19.00), as well as the Swedish Fanny Roos (19.42, 18.82), Olympic finalist in Paris and Tokyo, and the also Portuguese Jessica Inchude (19.18, 19.18). Our national record holder and double Olympic participant (Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024) Belén Toimil (18.80, 17.60) will also be there, along with the Portuguese Eliana Bandeira (18.49, 18.29). The Madrid Meeting will not only be a great prelude to the Indoor World Championships in Nanjing at the end of March, where Mitton will defend her gold and Jackson her bronze, but it will also be an opportunity to see up to three athletes over 20 metres in Gallur.
Women's Pole Vault
The reigning world indoor champion, England's Molly Caudery (4.92, 4.75), will make her debut in Gallur alongside top-class rivals such as Slovenia's Tina Sutej (4.82, 4.70), an Olympic finalist (2021) and world finalist (2022, 2023) who we already saw in Madrid in the 2021 edition, China's Huiqin Xu (4.70, 4.37) or Italy's Elisa Molinarolo (4.70, 4.60), a finalist at the last Olympic Games in Paris 2024. In addition, Spanish representation will be provided by Spanish short track champion Maialen Axpe (4.50, 4.31) and vice-champion Clara Fernández (4.25, 4.25), who improved her personal best in this same track just two days ago.
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