Arturo Casado

Arturo Casado ( born January 26, 1983 in Madrid ) is a Spanish athlete, who in 2010 was European champion in 1500 -meter run.

Career

2001 Casado won bronze over 1500 meters at the European Junior Championships, he finished sixth at the Junior World Championships in 2002. He was fourth at the European Indoor Championships in 2005, won the U23 European Championships and the Mediterranean Games in Helsinki and reached the World Cup finals. In 3:39,45 min he finished in fifth place with around one and a half seconds behind the world champion. The following year, he won the European Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 to fourth place with about one second behind his compatriot Juan Carlos Higuero.

At the European Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2007 the Spanish runners over 1500 meters scored a triple victory. It won Higuero before Diego Gallardo and Casado. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka all three Spaniards were again in the final. Casado came to 3:35,62 min seventh and best Spaniard to the finish. The World Indoor Championships were held in 2008 in Spain. In Valencia, the Ethiopian Deresse Mekonnen won before the Kenyan Daniel Komen Kipchirchir, behind sprinted Higuero and Casado for third place. At the finish Higuero had six hundredths of a second ahead of Casado. After the race was displayed to the cheers of the Spanish audience that Komen won before Higuero and Casado and Mekonnen was disqualified for entering the interior border. The disqualification but was withdrawn, Komen received silver and bronze Higuero, Casado took fourth place. At the Olympic Games in Beijing Casado was eliminated in the semifinals.

At the European Championships 2010 in Barcelona stood with Casado, Reyes Estevez and Manuel Olmedo three Spaniards in the final. The of the intervals rather subdued race was decided in Schlusspurt, Casado won in 3:42,74 minutes before Carsten Schlangen and Manuel Olmedo, Estevez took fourth place.

Arturo Casado has a competition weight of 71 kg at a height of 1.87 m. 2005 and 2008 he was Spanish Champion over 1500 meters.

Bests

Outdoor

  • 800 meters: 1:45,52 min, July 4 2009 Madrid
  • 1500 meters: 3:33,14 min, July 11, 2008 Rome
2010 European Athletics Championships 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships 2005 Mediterranean Games 2005 World Championships in Athletics 2006 European Athletics Championships 2007 World Championships in Athletics 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships Daniel Kipchirchir Komen Reyes Estévez Sydney Wooderson Lennart Strand Roger Bannister Brian Hewson Michel Jazy John Whetton Franco Arese Klaus-Peter Justus Steve Cram Jens-Peter Herold Henrik Ingebrigtsen
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