2024-07-16 03:51:46
And the 16th athlete of the Guatemalan delegation arrived! The sprinter from Zacapa Mariandrée Chacon will participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
He national athletics will become the sport with the most representatives in the French games that will start on Friday, July 26, 2024. Mariandrée will compete in one of the most beautiful events in the track. Below we will tell you how he managed to qualify and when he will compete. How cool!
Paris 2024: Mariandrée Chacón will compete at the Olympic Games
The Guatemalan delegation Now there will be one more representative, the sprinter Chacón, who joins the 15 athletes who have their name written to be in the Paris fairs which will be held from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11, 2024.
Mariandrée achieved the quota for universality to represent Guatemala in the specialty of Women’s 100m dashwhich will be played on Friday, August 2, 2024 at the Paris stadium.
Las universality quotas They are a resource for athletes of National Olympic Committees underrepresented. They are designed to increase the diversity of participating nations in the sports program of the Olympic Games.
Mariandrée’s best moments in athletics
Chacon is a Guatemalan athlete who was born in the Antombrán Villagemunicipality of Huité, department of Zacapa and since she was little she showed her talent for speed tests.
Since her debut in 2016, perseverance and the desire to improve have been fundamental and led her that year to break national records for 100 and 200 meters, marks that remained in the hands of Christa Schumann for over 30 years.
In each competition in which he participates he manages to put Guatemala on the top, as happened in the Nairobi 2021 U20 World Athletics Championshipswhere Chacón reached the 20th place of the general and was left as the best latin american of the 200 meters flat.
In addition, at the U-20 World Athletics Championships, Cali 2022 in timekeeping 11.81 seconds in the 100-meter dash.
University challenges in athletics
At the moment Mariandrée He is part of the athletics team of the Jacksonville UniversityFlorida, United States, where she has excelled in university championships. This year she won a gold medal with her team in the 4×400 relay, demonstrating her great ability not only individually, but also as a team.
She has also been recognized at her university as one of the great representatives of university athletics, where she has excelled in the 100 and 200 meter dash events.
His best time in 100 metrosaccording to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), achieved it in the Central American Under-20 Championship held in Managua, Nicaragua, on June 17, 2022, with a time of 11.66.
In addition, it is ranked 576th in the ranking mundial and is one of the great promises at 19 years old in national athletics.
Who are the athletes qualified for Paris 2024?
So far Guatemala has 8 classified athletes to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. They are:
- Jose Alejandro Barrondo (march)
- Luis Grijalva (5,000 metros),
- Sophia Hernandez (modern pentathlon)
- Andres Fernandez (modern pentathlon)
- Adriana Ruano (shooting, Olympic trap)
- Jean Pierre Brol (shooting, trap)
- Waleska Soto (shooting, trap)
- Sebastian Bermudez (shooting, trap)
- Juan Ignacio Maegli (Sailing)
- Alberto Gonzalez (marathon)
- Kevin Cordón (badminton)
- Jacqueline Solís (judo)
- Erick Gordillo (swimming)
- Lucero Mejia (swimming)
- Érick Barrondo (athletics)
- Mariandrée Chacon (athletics)
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