A site for athletics fans

I have already written about the Trackinsun blog, created and maintained by Carles Baronet. It's a blog giving results of athletic performances from all over the world. And it does that almost in real time. And it's archives go back a long, long way. An absolute must for all track and field fans.

But here I am going to talk about another site SomosAtletismo, created by J. Estruch (an ex-decathlete) and currently sports photograph. C. Baronet is responsible for the statistical part of the site. You probably guessed it, the site is in spanish. 

They are also publishing online a (free) magazine, called also Somos Atletismo. 

It is "hispano-centric" but there are also technical articles of general interest. They are already at number 10 of the series. I look forward to the copies of the magazine to appear over the next months, when the 2021 season will really be under way.

The quality of the site is really professional both for its content and its photos. You can judge from the photo below. 

Unfortunately the site does not give the name of the athlete and does not explain what happened for her to be so sad. However the file for the photo has the name Carmen. And we can see that her family name ends in S. Moreover she is next to a high jump reception area, thus one can surmise that she is doing high jump. So I looked for a spanish high jumper with that name. I found only one, Carmen Ramos who, in fact, is a combined-events specialist with a record of 5905 points in the heptathlon.

She was the 2018 national champion of the indoor pentathlon with 4178 points.

PS. Just as I was preparing this post and checking the links, I discovered that the Trackinsun blog was discontinued.

C. Baronet has decided to go ahead with his plan of publishing a newsletter. It goes without saying that I became immediately a member. If you are an athletics fan (otherwise, what would you be doing here), do not hesitate. The weekly published letters contain a real treasure of athletics results.