Overview
- Spanish heptathlon record-holder María Vicente will next season train in Loughborough under coach Aston Moore, a move confirmed by reporting that cites her current coach Ramón Cid.
- Ramón Cid said the decision followed months of discussion and that he supports the transfer as a forward-looking step to introduce new technical concepts and training plans for Olympic preparation.
- Aston Moore leads a long-established combined-events and horizontal-jumps group at Loughborough and has coached elite athletes such as Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Phillips Idowu, Ashia Hansen, and Kelly Sotherton.
- Vicente has worked with Cid in San Sebastián for more than six years and brings a high ceiling despite past injuries, including a 2024 Achilles rupture that cost her the Paris Olympics.
- The announcement appeared as part of a wider athletics update that also reported Amos Kipruto and Hawi Feysa winning the Chicago Marathon, and the move could change Vicente’s day-to-day support, recovery access, and competition planning ahead of the next Games.