Ana Peleteiro’s effusive celebration for Esther Guerrero’s ticket to the final: “I smelled your Catalan balls!”

The selection Spanish athletics will try to shine in the Indoor World Championship that hosts the Chinese town of Nankín between this Friday 21 and Sunday 23 and where the best medal options come from Ana Peleteirowhich seeks to close with a complicated double the winter season.

Two weeks after the celebration of the European Indoor in Appealoorn (Holland), where Spain He achieved four medals (one gold, one silver and two bronzes), the tight calendar of 2025 brings another great international event, which also arrives with five years of retardation due to continuous postponements since it could not be celebrated when initially it was planned, in 2020, by the pandemic.

And this overlap within an outdoor campaign also with many challenges has caused many Spanish athletes to have not wanted to extend the season with a roof much and that the selection has been reduced by almost a third that came to the main championship in early March. The expedition has gone from 36 athletes to only 13, eight men and five women, with only two novelties, Adrián Ben and Marcos Ruizand with the aim of matching at least the two medals last year in Glasgow.

Ana Peleteiro awaits her debut by encouraging her companions. It is overturned with them, it is not something new. The last scene that has demonstrated it has been a video that she herself has published on her social networks in which the effusivity with which she celebrates that she celebrates that Esther Guerrero I got the ticket for the 1,500 meters final.

“I smelled your Catalan balls,” Ana Peleteiro shouted while Fatima, Marta García and Loreacompanions with whom he saw the race jumped and shouted down the beds in the room. Peleteiro will look for the gold medal on the final of the triple jump, a test in which Leyanis Pérez, Liadagmis Povea and Tea LafondOlympic gold in Paristhey aim to be their main rivals.