Mo Katir culminates his dream summer: silver in the 5,000 meters of the European

• First success Mo Katir returns Spain to its successful past: bronze in the 1,500 meters of the World Cup

In the corridors of Eugene's Hayward Field, with a bronze around his neck,

surprised: his mind was no longer on the World Cup that had just elevated him, his ambition pushed him towards the European Championships in Munich.

What's more, that night he didn't even celebrate.

The Spanish Athletics Federation (RFEA) proposed that he delay his flight from the United States to Spain so that he could celebrate, so that he could have dinner with his coach,

, so that he would have a beer if that and he rejected it.

Hours after his first appointment with an international podium, he got on a plane, rested for three days with his family in his town, in Mula, and went back to Sierra Nevada to concentrate at altitude.

Yesterday he reaped the fruits of his stubbornness: in the European Championships in Munich that motivated him so much, he hung his second medal in a few weeks, a silver, this time in the 5,000 meters.

At 24 years old, he is already the Spanish reference in the background and the middle ground, something that few had combined.

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