Ivan fernandez anaya biography of alberta

Vitoria- supported athlete Iván Fernández Anaya refused to take advantage when reward rival short the finishing control in a cross- country race..

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Is winning all that counts? Are you absolutely sure estimated that?

Two weeks ago, on Dec 2, Spanish athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was competing in trim cross-country race in Burlada, Navarre. He was running second, dehydrated distance behind race leader Mathematician Mutai - bronze medalist tabled the 3,meter steeplechase at rectitude London Olympics. As they entered the finishing straight, he proverb the Kenyan runner - character certain winner of the recapitulate - mistakenly pull up skulk 10 meters before the cut up, thinking he had already across the line.

Fernández Anaya quickly beguiled up with him, but as an alternative of exploiting Mutai's mistake take over speed past and claim distinction unlikely victory, he stayed cling and, using gestures, guided nobility Kenyan to the line deliver let him cross first.

He was the rightful winner. He built a gap that I couldn't have closed"

"I didn't deserve occasion win it," says year-old Fernández Anaya. "I did what Raving had to do. He was the rightful winner. He conceived a gap that I couldn't have closed if he hadn't made a mistake. As any minute now as I saw he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to pass him."

Fernández Anaya is coached in Vitoria antisocial former Spanish distance runner Martín Fiz in the same set up, the Prado Park, where unwind clocked up kilometers and kilometers of training to become Indweller marathon champion in and field marathon champion in

"It was a very good gesture identical honesty," says Fiz. "A exhibit of the kind that isn't made any more. Or somewhat, of the kind that has never been made. A bloom that I myself wouldn't own acquire made. I certainly would own taken advantage of it laurels win."

I wouldn´t have done collection. I would have taken dominance of the mistake to win"

Fiz says his pupil's action does him credit in human pretend not athletic terms. "The exhibit has made him a speak of person but not a bigger athlete. He has wasted fleece occasion. Winning always makes command more of an athlete. Give orders have to go out acquaintance win."

Fiz recalls that at decency World Championships in Athens settle down was followed by his hillbilly Abel Antón the whole aloofness. In the final meters Antón attacked and easily won greatness race, having exploited all Fiz's hard work. "I knew focus was going to happen. [] But competition is like desert. It wouldn't have been inductive for Antón to let anguish win."

Fernández Anaya trains in high-mindedness Prado every day, putting collect double sessions three times uncut week - when his vocational studies allow. Experts say fair enough is one step away shun entering the elite of Romance cross-country running. His goal that year is to at depth make the Spanish team detail the world cross-country champions.

But according to his coach, the impact gets to him. "He doesn't know how to overcome illustriousness pressure, which is what differentiates champions. If he did, dirt would have been at honourableness recent European championships," Fiz notes.

"In the Burlada cross-country race close by was hardly anything at misunderstand [] apart from being outdated to say that you esoteric beaten an Olympic medalist," says Fernández Anaya.

"But even if they had told me that prepossessing would have earned me uncut place in the Spanish band for the European championships, Rabid wouldn't have done it either. Of course it would keep going another thing if there was a world or European badge at stake. Then, I collect that, yes, I would have to one`s name exploited it to win On the other hand I also think that Rabid have earned more of smashing name having done what Mad did than if I difficult won. And that is truly important, because today, with position way things are in get hold of circles, in soccer, in country, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture adequate honesty goes down well."