Liemarvin Bonevacia

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Liemarvin Bonevacia at the FBK Games 2019

Liemarvin Bonevacia (born March 5, 1989 in Curaçao ) is a Dutch athlete from Curaçao who specializes in the 400 meter run .

Career

Bonevacia is a student at Peter Stuyvesant College and trains with the Trupial athletics team . In 2011, at the Summer Universiade 2011 in Shenzhen, he was 400 meters in the semifinals and over 200 meters in the quarter-finals. At the Central American and Caribbean Championships in the same year, he failed to qualify for the finals.

In April 2012 he qualified at the Grand Prix International Ximena in Medellín (Colombia) for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. His time of 45.77 seconds was also a new national record for Curaçao, and the next day he also improved the national record over 200 meters to 20.82 seconds.

After the National Olympic Committee of the Netherlands Antilles had lost its recognition by the IOC as a result of the dissolution of the island association, he received permission to compete in London as an Independent Olympic Participant. There he improved his personal best in the run-up to 45.60 seconds and moved into the semifinals in third place. In the semifinals he gave up and walked to the finish.

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 he won the bronze medal - now starting for the Netherlands. He also took seventh place there with the Dutch 4 x 400 meter relay. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , he reached the semi-finals.

In 2017, Bonevacia set a new Dutch indoor record over 400 meters at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with 46.26 seconds, winning the bronze medal behind defending champion Pavel Maslák from the Czech Republic and Poland's Rafał Omelko .

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personal data
SURNAME Bonevacia, Liemarvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Curacao athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Curacao