Coraly's Ortiz

Coraly's Ortiz
nation	Puerto Rico
birthday	16th April 1985 (age 35)
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	60.37 m
status	active
Medal table
Central America and Caribbean Games 0 × 1 × 1 × NACAC championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Central America and Caribbean Games bronze Xalapa 2014 54.53 m silver Barranquilla 2018 56.27 m NACAC championships bronze Toronto 2018 54.71 m
last change: January 22nd, 2020

Coralys Ortiz (born April 16, 1985 ) is a Puerto Rican javelin thrower who started her career in the heptathlon .

Athletic career

Coralys Ortiz gained her first international experience in 20034 at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (CAC) in Coatzacoalcos , where she won the gold medal with a width of 48.45 m, before she was eliminated from the qualification at the Junior World Championships in Grosseto with 42.71 m . The following year she took part in the heptathlon at the CAC championships in Nassau and finished fourth with 5019 points. At the Ibero-American Championships 2006 in Ponce she was fourth in the heptathlon with 5126 points and won the silver medal in the javelin throw behind the Brazilian Alessandra Resende with a throw at 37.86 m . She then reached eighth place in the javelin throw at the U23 NACAC Championships in Santo Domingo with 41.72 m and was eliminated in the 100-meter hurdles with 15.11 s in the first round, before she at the Central America and Caribbean Games could not finish her heptathlon in Cartagena .

Four years later she took fifth place in the javelin throw at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez with a width of 47.31 m and the following year she was fourth at the CAC championships there with 52.32 m. She then took part in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara for the first time, where she placed fifth with a throw of 52.81 m. At the Ibero-American Championships in 2012 in Barquisimeto she came in sixth with 50.59 m and in 2013 she won the CAC Championships in Morelia with 57.48 m. 2014 she reached for the Ibero-American Championships in Sao Paulo with 53.68 m fourth place and won in connection with the Pan-American Sports Festival in Mexico City with 58.20 m bronze medal, as well as in the Central American and Caribbean Games in Xalapa in, to which she had to admit defeat with 54.53 m by the Colombian Flor Ruíz and Abigail Gómez from Mexico.

2015 she was at the NACAC Championships in San José with 49.81 m Fourth and the following year she won at the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro with 58.31 m bronze medal behind the Colombian Ruiz and Laila Ferrer de Silva from Brazil. In 2018 she won the silver medal behind the Colombian María Lucelly Murillo at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla with a width of 56.27 m . Then she won at the NACAC championships in Toronto with a throw of 54.71 m bronze behind the two Americans Ariana Ince and Bethany Drake . The following year she took part again in the Pan American Games in Lima and came in eleventh with 51.74 m.

In 2004 and 2006, 2008 and 2010, 2013 and 2015, as well as 2015 and 2019, Ortiz became the Puerto Rican javelin champion.

Personal best

• Javelin throw: 60.37 m, February 27, 2016 in Gurabo ( Puerto Rican record )
• Heptathlon: 5321 points, May 29, 2005 in San Juan

Web links

• Coralys Ortiz in the database of World Athletics (English)