{"id":817411,"date":"2026-07-22T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T22:06:11","slug":"speed-athletes-race-for-the-podium-at-f1-venue-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/817411\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEED ATHLETES RACE FOR THE PODIUM AT F1 VENUE IN BARCELONA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Climbing Europe Series stopped at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, for a Speed competition on 17 July, ahead of the Boulder Championship that took place that same weekend, at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s depth in the discipline was on full display, with five women and five men reaching the round of 16. Carla Mart\u00ednez Vidal delivered the home victory in the women\u2019s event, while Ukraine\u2019s Hryhorii Ilchyshyn claimed men\u2019s gold with the fastest time of the day.<\/p>\n<p>MART\u00cdNEZ VIDAL DELIVERS FOR THE HOME CROWD<\/p>\n<p>Mart\u00ednez Vidal clocked two races in the 6.6-second range\u20146.62 in the opening round and 6.62 in the quarter-final\u2014before following up with two more solid sub-seven climbs to secure the title. She first defeated Germany\u2019s Nele Thomas in the semi-final, stopping the clock at 6.85, then prevailed over Ukraine\u2019s Kseniia Horielova in the gold-medal race, hitting the finish pad in 6.74 to her rival\u2019s 7.20.<\/p>\n<p>In the bronze-medal race, Poland\u2019s Magdalena Blachnicka slipped and fell, allowing Thomas to take bronze in 7.58.<\/p>\n<p>For the women&#8217;s Speed complete results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldclimbing.com\/events\/world-climbing-europe-series-barcelona-2026\/results\/index?discipline=speed&amp;category=women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Climbing Europe Series stopped at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, for a Speed competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-817411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}