The Azuayan long-distance runner competed in the Valencia Marathon and beat the record held by Martha Tenorio since 1999, in Boston.
Athlete azuaya Paola Bonilla closed the season with new national marathon record, record reached on December 5 in Valencia Spain, So what dethrone the long distance runners like Rosalba Chacha and Martha Tenorio, legendary of national athletics.
Bonilla participated on Sunday in the Valencia Marathon, competition in which it was located in 16th place, with a time of 2 hours 27 minutes 38 seconds.
It is record exceeds that achieved by Chacha last April in Siena, Italy, which to date stood as a national record by imposing 2 hours 28 minutes 17 seconds.
What was achieved by Bonilla It also exceeds the 2 hours 27 minutes 57 seconds imposed by Martha Tenorio in 1999, during his participation in the Boston Marathon, a “non-homologable record”, as highlighted by the Ecuadorian Athletics Federation.
From the information confirmed by the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee, Bonilla’s new brand “gets into the third position in the history of South American athletics”, after the times recorded by the Peruvian athletes Inés Melchor, with 2 hours 26 minutes 48 seconds, and Gladys Tejeda, with 2 hours 27 minutes 07 seconds.
Valencia Marathon
The Valencian test was won in vibrant final by Kenyan Lawrence Cherono with 2 hours 05 minutes 12 seconds, four seconds less than the Ethiopian Clau Deso.
In ladies, the winner was another Kenyan, Nancy Jelagat, with 2 hours 19 minutes 31 seconds, followed by the Ethiopian Etagegne Woldu.
The Ecuadorian Bonilla was ranked 16, Peruvian Aydé Loayza was twentieth with 2 hours 31 minutes 42 seconds, while Argentine recordwoman Marcela Cristina Gómez left after kilometer 10 due to a fall.
They were in total six national records that were broken on Sunday in the Valencia Marathon, with the records reached for Spain, Germany, Argentina and Singapore, in males; Iran and Ecuador in damask. (D)
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