Marc Alcalá

Marc Alcalá
Marc Alcalá
Full name	Marc Alcalá Ibáñez
nation	Spain
birthday	7th November 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Barcelona ,  Spain
size	175 cm
Weight	69 kg
Career
discipline	1500 m
Best performance	3: 35.85 min
society	FC Barcelona
Trainer	José Antonio Prieto
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 European Championships gold Tallinn 2015 1500 m
last change: April 14, 2020

Marc Alcalá Ibáñez (born November 7, 1994 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish athlete who specializes in middle-distance runs .

Athletic career

Marc Alcalá first took part in national championships in 2011 and was the Spanish U18 champion over 1500 meters. A month later, he also competed over this distance at the U18 World Championships in Lille, where he was eliminated in the preliminary run. A year later, at 17, he started in the older age group at the U20 World Championships in his hometown. After he had already won the national U20 title, he was eliminated in the preliminary stages of the World Championships and finished 33rd in 3: 55.68 minutes. Another year later he ran at the U20 European Championships in Rieti in a time of 3: 51.17 minutes in 18th place. Before that, he already competed in the U20 race of the Cross Country World Championships in Bydgoscz in March. In 2014 he became the Spanish U23 champion and later also won the gold medal over 1500 meters at the U23 Mediterranean Championships.

In spring 2015 Alcalá took part in an international adult championship for the first time at the European Indoor Championships in Prague. With a lead time of 3: 50.46 minutes, he finished 25th. In the summer he won the gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn. At the World Indoor Championships in Portland in 2016, he was eliminated in seventh place in his preliminary run. He caught the significantly faster forerun, which is why he 'after adding the two forerunners ended up in 10th place overall. in the summer he finished 22nd at the European Championships in Amsterdam. Before that, he was the first national champion over 1500 meters for adults. In 2017, after his title in the open air, Alcalá was crowned the Spanish champion over 1500 meters indoors for the first time. In March he was able to celebrate his greatest sporting success with fourth place at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade. He could not build on this performance in the summer at the World Championships in London after he was eliminated as tenth of his preliminary run. Also in spring 2017, he finished eighth with the Spanish mixed relay at the World Championships in Kampala.

In 2018 he failed at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham as fourth of his run just short of making it to the next round. At the summer Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, he finished 13th.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	time
Starts for Spain
2011	U18 world championships	Lille	22nd	1500 m	3: 58.50 m
2012	U20 world championships	Barcelona	33.	1500 m	3: 55.68 min
2013	World Cross Country Championships	Bydgoszcz	99	Junior race	25:18 min
	U20 European Championships	Rieti	18th	1500 m	3: 51.17 min
2015	European championships	Prague	25th	1500 m	3: 50.46 min
	U23 European Championships	Tallinn	1.	1500 m	3: 44.54 min
2016	Indoor world championships	Portland	10.	1500 m	3: 42.02 min
	European championships	Amsterdam	22nd	1500 m	3: 43.43 min
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade	4th	1500 m	3: 46.36 min
	World Cross Country Championships	Kampala	8th.	4 × 2 km mixed	24:29 min
	World championships	London	21st	1500 m	3: 43.28 min
2018	Indoor world championships	Birmingham	9.	1500 m	3: 45.49 min
	Mediterranean Games	Tarragona	13.	1500 m	3: 48.03 min

Personal best

open air

• 800 m : 1: 48.68 min, June 17, 2017, Ciudad Real
• 1000 m : 2: 19.41 min, May 31, 2015, Barcelona
• 1500 m : 3: 35.85 min, July 21, 2017, Monaco
• 3000 m : 8: 24.34 min, May 20, 2017, Andújar

Hall

• 800 m: 1: 50.38 min, February 12, 2017, Sabadell
• 1000 m: 2: 20.45 min, February 17, 2016, Stockholm
• 1500 m: 3: 39.33 min, February 7, 2016, Sabadell
• 3000 m: 7: 58.25 min, January 14, 2017, Sabadell

Web links

• Marc Alcalá in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Marc Alcalá in the database of European Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RFEA profile
2. ↑ Results on worldathletics.org