Aleix Porras

Aleix Porras
Full name	Aleix Porras Cantons
nation	Spain
birthday	11th September 1999 (age 20)
place of birth	Lleida , Spain
Career
discipline	400 meter hurdles
Best performance	50.35 s
status	active
Medal table
U18 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
European Youth Championships silver Tbilisi 2016 400 m hurdles
last change: May 28, 2020

Aleix Porras Cantons (born September 11, 1999 in Lleida ) is a Spanish hurdler who specializes in the 400 meter distance .

Athletic career

Aleix Porras gained his first international experience in 2015 when he reached the semi-finals of the Youth World Championships in Cali and was eliminated there with 52.38 seconds. He then won the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Tbilisi in 52.52 s. In the following year he won the silver medal in 51.56 s at the European Youth Championships held there for the first time . In 2017 he came seventh at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto in 51.36 seconds and in 2018 he took part in the Spanish 4 x 400 meter relay at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where he finished with 3:07, 52 minutes but not until the final. Then he reached the semifinals at the U20 World Championships Tampere , but did not start there. He also qualified for the European Championships in Berlin , where he was eliminated in the first round with 51.69 s. In 2019 he finished sixth at the U23 European Championships in Gävle in 50.45 seconds and finished fifth with the relay in 3: 07.62 minutes.

Personal best

• 400 m hurdles: 50.35 s, June 15, 2019 in Soria

Web links

• Aleix Porras in the database of World Athletics (English)