Dominican athletics coach Jose (Ludwig) Rubio was contracted to train the sprint team of Bahrain. Rubio became world renown after his pupil, Luguelin Santos, won the gold medal in the Summer Youth Olympics in 2010 and the silver medal in the 400-meter dash in the London Olympics, becoming at 18 the youngest-ever Olympic medalist in the event.
Rubio did the job again. At the end of the Asian Athletics Championships (Doha, Qatar from 21-24 April 2019), the Bahrain speed team under Rubio won first place, defeating China. 43 nations competed in the event. Bahrein was first with 11 gold medals, 7 silver and 4 bronze (22). China was next with 9 gold, 13 silver and 7 bronze for 29 medals, and Japan third with 4 gold, 4 silver and 9 bronze, or 18 medals. Rubio has worked for the Bahrain Athletics Federation since November 2017
As reported, it is the first time that China lost the championship. “Expectations were met 100%,” said Rubio. The idea was to defeat China, and we did it, he said. “We defeated the monster,” he said. Qatar is a country of 1,425,171 inhabitants.
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20 May 2019