Andrea Vargas
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Born | 28 May 1996 | ||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres hurdles | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Andrea Carolina Vargas Mena (born 28 May 1996) is a Costa Rican athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. She is the current NR holder with the time of 12.64 seconds which was set at the IAAF World Championships in Doha 2019. [2] She represented her country at the 2018 World Indoor Championships without advancing from the first round. She participated in the Panamerican Games in Lima, Peru, achieving first place in 100 meter hurdles. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]
Her personal bests are 12.64 seconds in the 100 metres hurdles (Doha 2019) and 8.19 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Boston 2018).[4]
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Costa Rica | |||||
2010 | Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U17) |
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 2nd | Heptathlon (youth) | 3972 pts |
2011 | Central American Junior and Youth Championships (U18) |
San Salvador, El Salvador | 2nd | 400 m hurdles (76.2 cm) | 66.78 |
2013 | Central American Games | San José, Costa Rica | 1st | 400 m hurdles | 1:04.72 |
World Youth Championships | Donetsk, Ukraine | 15th (h) | 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) | 14.34 | |
2014 | Central American Junior Championships | Morelia, Mexico | 2nd | 100 m hurdles | 13.72 |
World Junior Championships | Eugene, United States | 24th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 14.11 (w) | |
2016 | NACAC U23 Championships | San Salvador, El Salvador | 11th (h) | 200 m | 25.18 |
6th | 100 m hurdles | 13.65 | |||
2017 | Central American Games | Managua, Nicaragua | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 13.12 |
2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 32nd (h) | 60 m hurdles | 8.34 |
Central American and Caribbean Games | Barranquilla, Colombia | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 12.90 | |
NACAC Championships | Toronto, Canada | 3rd | 100 m hurdles | 12.91 | |
Ibero-American Championships | Trujillo, Peru | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 13.04 | |
2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Perú | 1st | 100 m hurdles | 12.82 |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 5th | 100 m hurdles | 12.64 | |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 9th (sf) | 100 m hurdles | 12.69 |
References[]
- ^ "2018 CAC Games bio". Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ Andrea Vargas at World Athletics
- ^ "Athletics VARGAS Andrea Carolina - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". .. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Progression NR 100 metres hurdles Costa Rica". Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Costa Rican female hurdlers
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Costa Rica
- Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American Games gold medalists for Costa Rica
- Central American Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Costa Rica
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Ibero-American Championships in Athletics winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Costa Rica
- Costa Rican sportspeople stubs
- Central America and Caribbean athletics biography stubs