Spain
2022
A world title in March, two world bronzes in July, and a ten-medal, four-gold wall in Munich: the season Spanish athletics stopped knocking and walked in.
Spain's 2022 stacked a world indoor 800 m title (Mariano García in Belgrade), two world bronzes in Eugene (Asier Martínez and Mohamed Katir) and a ten-medal European Championships in Munich with four golds — López, Martín, Martínez and García again.
This is the season in full: Belgrade, the Eugene foundation, the Munich wall tile by tile, Peleteiro's maternity year — and the Joma Spain racing set of that cycle, both pieces of which are in this archive.
Part of our Season Series — one year at a time. The full national story is in The History of Athletics in Spain. Jump to the 2022 kit or browse the collection.
- The world title
- Mariano García: world indoor 800 m champion, Belgrade, 1:46.20
- Eugene
- 2 world bronzes: Asier Martínez (110 m h, 13.17 PB) and Katir* (1500)
- Munich
- 10 medals, 4 golds — Spain's best continental haul in decades
- The golds
- López (35 km CR) · Á. Martín (20 km PB) · A. Martínez (110 h) · M. García (800)
- The double
- García: world indoor + European outdoor 800 titles in one year
- The asterisk
- *Katir: suspended until Feb 2028 (whereabouts + tampering); 2022 results stand
- The absence
- Peleteiro: maternity year — back in a European final within 15 months
- Kit
- Joma — the four-gold summer's federation issue
A World Title Indoors
The season announced itself in March. Mariano García — a shepherd's son from Cuevas de Reyllo with a front-running style that treats championship finals like village races — won the world indoor 800 m title in Belgrade in 1:46.20, after an indoor winter that included a 1:45.12 Spanish record and the year's fastest time. It was Spain's only global title of the season, and it would not be his last: in 2026 he added the world indoor 1500 crown, the first athlete ever to hold both.
Eugene, in July, laid two more bricks: Asier Martínez took world 110 m hurdles bronze in a 13.17 personal best at 22, and Mohamed Katir added bronze in the 1500 with Mario García Romo fourth in the same final — two Spaniards in the top four of the world's deepest race. (Katir is today serving a suspension until February 2028 for whereabouts failures and tampering; his 2022 results stand.)
The Munich Wall
Then came August, and the best European Championships Spain had produced in decades: ten medals in Munich, four of them gold. Miguel Ángel López won the 35 km walk in a championship record, Álvaro Martín reclaimed the 20 km in a 1:19:11 personal best, Asier Martínez converted his Eugene bronze into the European hurdles title at 13.17 again — and Mariano García completed the indoor–outdoor double in the 800, front-running to 1:44.85.
*Katir is serving a suspension until February 2028 for whereabouts failures and tampering; his 2022 results stand. Sources: Wikipedia, Spain at the 2022 Europeans and Worlds. Verified August 2026.
The ten medals (table)
| Medal | Event | Athlete | Mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | GOLD · 35 KM WALK | M. Á. López | 2:26:49 CR |
| Gold | GOLD · 110 M H | Asier Martínez | 13.17 |
| Gold | GOLD · 20 KM WALK | Álvaro Martín | 1:19:11 PB |
| Gold | GOLD · 800 M | Mariano García | 1:44.85 PB |
| Silver | SILVER · 5000 M | Mohamed Katir* | 13:22.98 |
| Silver | SILVER · 35 KM WALK | Raquel González | 2:49:10 |
| Silver | SILVER · MARATHON CUP | Women's team | — |
| Bronze | BRONZE · 1500 M | Mario García Romo | 3:34.88 |
| Bronze | BRONZE · 20 KM WALK | Diego García | 1:19:45 |
| Bronze | BRONZE · MARATHON CUP | Men's team | — |
One absence shaped the year as much as any medal: Ana Peleteiro sat 2022 out entirely, announcing her first pregnancy in June and pointing her comeback at 2023. She would return to a European final within fifteen months of giving birth.
Joma Spain 2022 · in the archiveJoma Spain Pro Elite 2022 Women Booty TightsThe matching booty tights of the same federation issue — a two-piece set from the four-gold year.45,00 €View piece →The Joma Spain Kit
The four-gold summer was raced, like every Spanish season since 2009, in Joma. The two pieces of the 2022 allocation in this archive are a matched women's racing set: competition briefs and booty tights, federation-spec and never retailed.
Joma has dressed the Spanish federation since 2009 — every season in this series was raced in Joma. The 2022 pieces in this archive are the women's competition briefs and booty tights of that issue.
From this season · in the archiveJoma Spain Pro Elite 2022 Women Competition BriefsJoma women's competition briefs from the 2022 allocation — the racing cut of the Munich summer.50,00 €View piece →Spain 2022
Two pieces from the Spanish team's 2022 allocation — the Joma women's competition briefs and booty tights of the Munich summer, a matched federation racing set.
What did Spain win at the 2022 European Championships?
Ten medals in Munich, four of them gold: Miguel Ángel López (35 km walk, championship record), Álvaro Martín (20 km walk), Asier Martínez (110 m hurdles) and Mariano García (800 m) — plus silvers for Katir, Raquel González and the women's marathon cup, and bronzes for García Romo, Diego García and the men's marathon cup.
Who is Mariano García?
The front-running 800 m man from Cuevas de Reyllo who won the 2022 world indoor title in Belgrade and the European title in Munich the same year — and in 2026 became the first athlete in history to hold world indoor titles over both 800 and 1500 m.
What happened with Mohamed Katir?
His 2022 — world 1500 bronze in Eugene, European 5000 silver in Munich — stands in the results. He is currently suspended until February 2028 after whereabouts failures and tampering with evidence, a sanction upheld by CAS.
What kit did Spain wear in 2022?
Joma, as every year since 2009. The Spain collection holds the women's competition briefs and booty tights of the 2022 federation issue.
Sources and References
- Olympics.com — García’s Belgrade title — the world indoor 800 m gold of March 2022
- Wikipedia — Spain at the 2022 World Championships — the Eugene bronzes and García Romo’s fourth place
- Wikipedia — Spain at the 2022 European Championships — all ten Munich medals with marks
- NBC Sports — Katir’s suspension — the sanction running to February 2028
- Olympics.com — García, world indoor 1500 champion 2026 — the 2026 double that closes his arc