The athlete achieved a time of 2h 26m 47s in the XXXIX Seville Marathon.
The athlete Luz Mery Rojas, a member of the National Marathon Program (PNM) of the Peruvian Sports Institute (IPD), virtually qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, by achieving a time of 2h 26m 47s in the XXXIX Seville Marathon, which It was played this Sunday in Spain.
The 30-year-old athlete finished the competition in 20th place in the women’s category and surpassed the minimum mark required (2:26:50) by World Athletics.
It is worth remembering that Rojas won the gold medal in the 10,000 meters event at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
In this way, she becomes the fourth representative of national athletics to make a qualifying mark for the world’s largest multi-sport event, after Gladys Tejeda, Jovana de la Cruz and Cristhian Pacheco.
In the female branch, the winner was Azmera Gebru from Ethiopia (2:22:13) and in the male category, her compatriot Deresa Geleta (2:03:27).
Other Peruvians who finished the competition were: Wily Canchanya (2:14:29), Franklin Jiménez (2:38:54), Ferdinan Pacheco (2:47:02), Omar Paredes (2:37:57) and Zaida Ramos (2:29:49).
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– 2024-04-25 22:34:48
