Valentí Massana
Valentí Massana ( Valentí Massana Gracia ; born July 5, 1970 in Viladecans ) is a former Spanish walker .
Life
Like José Marín and Jorge Llopart , the founders of the successful Spanish walking series in the 1970s, Valentí Massana comes from the immediate vicinity of Barcelona . And as with his two Catalan predecessors, Massana’s career lasted a long time. Massana almost always crossed the finish line. He was only disqualified at one major championship, of all places at the 1992 Olympic Games at home in Barcelona, where he was on a medal spot in the 20 km walk when the judges took him out of the race.
Massana celebrated his greatest success at the 1993 in Stuttgart, when he crossed the finish line half a minute ahead of the Italian Giovanni de Benedictis . However, his lead up to the stadium was much smaller, because the Mexican Daniel García , lying in second place, was only disqualified in the stadium. At the 1995 Massana benefited from the fact that García was taken out of the race again shortly before the end, so that Massana came to silver behind Michele Didoni from Italy.
Massana also won a medal with bronze in Atlanta in 1996 behind the Pole Robert Korzeniowski and the Russian Michail Schtschennikow in the 50 km walk .
With a height of 1.65 m, his competition weight was 51 kg.
Placements
- 1987 2nd place in the 10,000 meter European Junior Championships
- 1988 2nd place in the 10,000 meter junior world championships
- 1989 1st place in the 10,000 meter European Junior Championships
- 1990 5th place in the 20 km European Athletics Championships in 1990
- 1991 5th place 5000 m World Indoor Athletics Championships 1991
- 1991 5th place in the 20 km World Athletics Championships 1991
- 1993 1st place at the 20 km World Athletics Championships 1993
- 1994 3rd place in the 20 km European Athletics Championships 1994
- 1995 2nd place in the 20 km World Athletics Championships 1995
- 1996 place 20 20 km Olympic Games 1996
- 1996 3rd place 50 km 1996 Summer Olympics
- 1998 9th place in the 20 km European Athletics Championships 1998
- 1999 4th place 50 km World Athletics Championships 1999
- 2000 4th place 50 km Olympic Games 2000
- 2001 6th place at the 2001 50 km World Athletics Championships
Best times
- 20 km street walking: 1:19:25 h 1992
- 50 km of street walking: 3:38:43 h 1994
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2002. Worcester 2002, ISBN 1899807-13-6 .
Web links
- Valentí Massana in the database of World Athletics (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Massana, Valentí |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Massana Gracia, Valentí |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish walker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th July 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viladecans |