In this edition of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rosa Rodríguez, who will compete this Tuesday, August 6, 2024, for Olympic gold in the hammer throw discipline.
This 38-year-old athlete, originally from Portuguesa state, registered a mark of 71.76 meters in her third attempt and thus finished in fifth place in group B.
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With a time of 71.76, he was 1.88 meters short of equaling his personal best, which is also the national record.
Only behind the Finnish athlete, Tervo, the American, Price and Jacobsen, from Denmark, the Venezuelan athlete is present in the final stages of this discipline.
Sport always gives revenge
After achieving his second best mark in the Olympics, he entered his second final of said competition 8 years after having achieved it for First time in Rio 2016.
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For its part, in London 2012 She did not compete for medals, after achieving 27th place in the qualifying phase where only the top 12 advance; while in Tokyo 2020 she said goodbye in that same stage occupying the 22nd position.
She will have this opportunity at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to win Olympic gold and earn a medal for Venezuela in this edition.
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2024-08-07 21:53:00
