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Records and achievements of Guatemalan athlete Luis Grijalva
Luis Miguel Grijalva is the best Guatemalan athlete in the 5,000 meters, a specialty in which he will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Luis Grijalva was born in Guatemala, but has lived in the United States since he was 2 years old. (Photo Prensa Libre: EFE)
Long distance runner Luis Miguel Grijalva is the best Guatemalan athlete in the 5,000 meters, specialty in which he will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Luis Grijalva is, at 25 years old, the best exponent that Guatemala has had in the athletics discipline of the 5 thousand meters.
No other Guatemalan athlete had ever qualified for an Olympic final and he achieved it in Tokyo 2020 when he finished in 12th place with a time of 13:10.09 on August 6, 2021.
Three years later, Grijalva will once again try to put his name among the best in the world as he competes in a new edition of the Olympic Games.
It will be in the early hours of August 7 that Luis Miguel Grijalva will step onto the athletics track at the Stade de France to compete in the qualifying heat where he will fight alongside 20 other athletes to be one of the best 8 times to advance to the final, which will be held on August 10 (11:50 am).
Records and marks of Luis Grijalva
In addition to being the only Guatemalan to have competed in a 5,000-meter final at the Olympic Games, Luis Grijalva has managed to establish several other records that place him as one of the best exponents of athletics in the history of Guatemala.
After making her debut on the Olympic stage, Grijalva achieved unprecedented results at the 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships, finishing fourth in both.
Grijalva is also a regular at Diamond League events, the most important athletics league in the world, in which he runs under the sponsorship of the Hoka One One team.
In the Diamond League, which takes place in different countries around the world, Grijalva has broken national records and has even stood on the podium, on the date that took place in June 2024 and won bronze in the 3,000 meters with a time of 7:33.96.
To date he has managed to set his pace in several national brands such as:
- 1500 metros 3:35.32
- 3000 metros 7:29.43
- 3000 indoor 7:37.42
- 5000 metros 12:50.58
- 10000 metros 27:26:02
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