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  • Spanish Runner Adel Mechaal Targets 3,000m Record at Ibiza Meet
    7 May 2022, by Prince

    "My goal is simple: to beat Fernando Carro’s record [holder of the Ibiza tournament record] and arrive in top form for the next Diamond League in Birmingham on May 29 and in Oslo on June 16. It’s the first of the season and I’m really looking forward to racing here in Ibiza again, where I have good memories," said Adel Mechaal in an interview with El Periodico de Ibiza.
    To read: Spanish Runner Adel Mechaal Shatters European 3,000m Indoor Record in New York
    The athlete of Moroccan origin (…)

  • Spanish Runner Mechaal Aims to Shatter European Indoor 3,000m Record at Championships
    3 March 2023, by Prince

    The Spanish athlete of Moroccan origin hopes to win the European indoor 3,000m championship, ahead of Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
    Mechaal arrived in Palamós, Spain at the age of two and obtained Spanish nationality in 2013. Since then, he has become an accomplished athlete who keeps breaking records. He recently won the Spanish indoor 3,000m championship in Madrid and broke the national indoor 1,500m record in Birmingham with a time of 3:33.28. "I’m in my best shape, I’ve broken my (…)

  • Jakob Ingebrigtsen Sets Record, Mechaal Takes Silver in European Indoor 3,000m
    6 March 2023, by Said

    The Spanish-Moroccan Adel Mechaal won the silver medal in the 3,000 meters event at the European indoor athletics championships in Istanbul on Sunday. Norwegian favorite Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the race, setting a new national record with a time of 7 minutes, 40 seconds and 32 hundredths.
    Mechaal finished the race in 7 minutes and 41.75 seconds, thus winning his third medal in the event, after winning the 3,000 meters title at the 2017 European Championships in Belgrade and a bronze medal (…)

  • Moroccan-Born Runner Shatters 32-Year-Old Spanish 1,500m Record
    2 August 2023, by Prince

    Moroccan-origin athlete Adel Mechaal is, since last weekend, the Spanish champion of the 1,500 meters. With a time of 3:33.44, he has also just broken the record held for 32 years by a certain Fermín Cacho.
    Adel Mechaal, 33, won the Spanish 1,500 meters championship in Torrent (Valencia) last weekend with a time of 3:33.44, ahead of the other Moroccan Mohamed Katir (25 years old) and Mario García Romo (24 years old). With this performance, the Moroccan-origin athlete becomes the new (…)

  • Spanish-Moroccan Runner Mechaal Breaks European Indoor 3,000m Record, Eyes More Milestones
    12 February 2022, by Prince

    The Spanish athlete of Moroccan origin, Adel Mechaal, who broke the European indoor record in the 3,000 meters with a time of 7:30.82, is aiming for other medals this year. The participation of Mohamed Katir in these is an additional source of motivation for him.
    Adel Mechaal won this indoor race in his fourth participation in the New Balance Grand Prix. "My goal was to achieve a time of 7:33, but I really didn’t think about the record..." he said in an interview with Marca, hoping to be (…)

  • Spanish Runner Adel Mechaal Aims for European Indoor 3,000m Record at Madrid Championships
    19 February 2023, by Prince

    The Spanish athlete of Moroccan origin Adel Mechaal won the semi-final of the Spanish indoor athletics championship in the 3,000 meters event taking place this weekend in Madrid.
    European indoor champion six years ago in Belgrade and bronze medalist two years ago in Torun, Adel Mechaal had to meet the "competitiveness criteria" that the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) set at 7:48.00 for this event. The Moroccan-origin athlete lost the European 3,000 meters record on Wednesday (…)

  • Moroccan-Born Adel Mechaal Retains Spanish Cross-Country Title Despite Close Finish
    30 January 2023, by Prince

    The athlete of Moroccan origin Adel Mechaal, who resides in Catalonia, retained his title of Spanish cross-country champion in Ortuella (Biscay) on Sunday.
    From the middle of the course, the race was very tight between the current champion Adel Mechaal (Catalonia) and the Spaniard of Burundian origin Thierry Ndikumwenayo (Valencian Community). At the end of this 9,500-meter course, it was Ndikumwenayo who won with a time of 30min24, only three seconds behind Mechaal (30min27), reports (…)