Berdine Castillo Wins Gold and Makes History at Iberoamerican of Cuiabá

2024-05-11 15:15:46

This Saturday, the national athlete Berdine Castillo won the women’s 800m dash event. Iberoamerican of Cuiabá and added vital points to continue dreaming of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

In the test, the Chilean representative born in Haiti surpassed her rivals and with a time of 2.00.84finished two laps of the oval in first place to win a gold medal and be crowned Ibero-American champion.

The Team Chile athlete, who closed her participation ahead of the Brazilian Jaqueline Beatriz Weber and the Uruguayan Deborah Rodriguez, also entered the history of South American athletics, by placing herself among the 10 best historical distance marks.

As if that were not enough, the Chilean Athletic Federation (@atleticachilena) stated that Berdine Castillo was about to break the national test recordafter being only 64 hundredths away from the mark held Alejandra Ramos Since 1990.

So then, the athlete smiles again after leaving the Santiago 2023 scandal behind, in a trial where the Vice President of World Athletics, Ximena Restrepo and the coach Marcelo Gajardowere acquitted of the accusations of abuse and discrimination reported by her and her partner. Chick Cardoch.

It should be remembered that, at the time, Castillo commented to BBCL that “after what happened, I told my coach ‘I don’t want to know more about the relief’. All my desire left me. Yes, I want to continue competing, because I have my individual events, which are the 800 meters.”