Castelblanco could be looking for an Olympic rating in Hamburg

Only 46 seconds separated the Panamanian marathon runner Jorge Enrique Castelblanco achieve the minimum score for the next Olympic Games Paris 2024, which is 2 hours 08 minutes and 10 seconds.

Castelblanco, who ran last Sunday, February 18 Seville Marathon, Spain, where he managed to set a new state record with a time of 2.09.24.

The long-distance runner from Chirica confirmed that he has high hopes of appearing at the Olympic Games for the third time in a row, although he has not yet defined the route he will follow in search of that precious ticket.

“I will arrive Panama and I will analyze together with Pandeportes, Panama Olympic Committee (COP) and the Panamanian Athletics Federation the way we will go,” Castelblanco assured.

“There is an opportunity to try to achieve a minimum score in the repechage which would be in Hamburg Marathon, Germanyia, which will be raced on April 28, and the second is to hope that we will achieve placement through the order,” assured the athlete.

“We will see what suits us better, everything depends on what these three subjects tell me, and the most important thing is that they must support me, because without their support I would not be able to attend. Hamburg Marathon, Germany.

Castelblanco has been training since the beginning of the year in the city of Paipa, Colombia, in order to fight for the qualifications for Paris 2024, and Sevilla had a great participation.

He earned his ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a time of 2:09:47 in Marathon in Valencia.

After Berlin Marathon, Hamburg Marathon It is the second largest marathon in Germany and is among the largest in the world.

In this marathon, the record for men is Bernard Koech from Kenya in 2023 with a time of 2:04:09, while the women’s record is held by Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia in 2022 with a time of 2:17:23.