The Uruguayan Julia Paternain He made history for his country after getting on the podium on the Tokyo 2025 Athletics World Athletics. This is the First medal in the history of Uruguay in this championship Although at the time of crossing the goal, the 25 -year -old broker showed bewilderment and tiredness. He did not celebrate or expressed happiness since he arrived alone and did not know the result he had achieved.
As soon as he realized the achievement he had obtained, he said: “I can’t believe it”, The athlete said after reaching the greatest recognition of his career.
In addition to being a huge milestone in his country’s sports history, he also was in his personal career. This Saturday was the second marathon that ran in his career and ended 42,195 kilometers in Tokyo in 2 hours, 27 minutes and 23 seconds. With this brand, he beat the Uruguayan record in the discipline.
It was only surpassed by the Kenyan Peres Jepchirchir and the Ethiopian Tigst Assefa, the favorites of the competition, which crossed the finish line at 2:24:43 and 2:24:45 respectively.
“I ended and told me an officer who was third and there I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know, I had no idea of the bronze when you arrived.” In turn, he made it clear that he did not know what his position had been: “I think that was good because I saved myself to be thinking that I had a medal and that I could lose it. I just wanted to get to the end because everything hurt”He said in dialogue with the AFP agency.
Who is Julia Paternain
Paternain, daughter of Uruguayan parents, born in Mexico and based in the United States, decided to represent the country through the National Club and thus obtained third place in Japan.
This same year he made his marathon debut on March 30 in the United States with Victoria in Rockland Lake, in the state of New York, with a time of 2 hours, 27 minutes and 9 seconds.
Only two months before, on January 17, Paternain successfully completed the administrative process against World Athletics to represent Uruguay. Previously, he represented Great Britain-País in which he resided-at the youth level in a U-19 European, just before moving to the US, where he continues to live today.
For almost two years the athlete has been federated by Nacional and her debut representing Uruguay It occurred in the Houston Half Marathon on January 19; When he ended in 30th position with national record.
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