Mónica Falcioni

Mónica Jacqueline Falcioni Costa (born October 10, 1968 ) is a former Uruguayan athlete .

Career

The 1.67 m tall long and triple jumper, who weighed 64 kg in competition, was named Athlete of the Year in 1996, after she set her own Uruguayan national record that year at 6.06 meters in the Uruguayan country Long jump at the event in Mar del Plata as well as the one in the triple jump with 13.10 meters. The following year, she improved her long jump record again to 6.13 meters and won a bronze medal at the South American Championships . At the South American Games in 1998 , she won the gold medal in the long jump with a width of 6.47 meters and she also placed silver in the triple jump competition with 13.55 meters. In 1999 she first took part in the Pan American Games . In that year, on May 8, 1999, she improved her national triple jump record to 13.59 meters and increased her longest jump in the long jump on June 26 of that year at the South American Championships in Bogotá to 6.52 meters. After all, this brand should also endure as a personal best at the end of their career. The Falcioni, who was coached by Oscar Gadea at the time , also took part in the Uruguayan squad at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . There she worked as the flag bearer of Uruguay and took 33rd place in the qualifying round in the long jump competition with a distance of 6.05 meters and thus missed the final. In 2000, Falcioni also won the bronze medal in the triple jump at the Ibero-American Athletics Championships. In 2002 she was the Uruguayan champion in the 4 x 100 meter relay and in the shot put. In March 2003, Falcioni was honored by the Uruguayan Ministry of Sport as part of an event to honor all Uruguayan champions of 2002 as a champion in both the long jump, the triple jump and the 4 x 100 meter relay. At the Pan American Games in 2003 she was again a member of the Uruguayan team. In the same year she finished 5th in the triple jump at the Athletics South American Championships in Barquisimeto .

successes

• 1997:

Bronze medal South American Championships

• 1998:

Gold Medal South American Games (Long Jump)

Silver medal South American Games (triple jump)

• 2000:

Bronze medal Ibero-American Championships (triple jump)

• 2001:

Uruguayan champions (4 × 100 m relay, shot put)

• 2002:

Uruguayan champions (long jump, triple jump, 4 × 100 m relay)

• Personal best: 6.52 meters (long jump)

Web links

• Mónica Falcioni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of the Uruguayan athletes  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the COU website, accessed on August 18, 2012  
2. ↑ Centenario del Decano ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish), Retrieved August 18, 2012 
3. ↑ Mónica Falcioni compite en Bolivia (Spanish) in La República of 18 August 2000. Retrieved on August 18, 2012
4. ↑ List of the flag bearers of Uruguay on www.sports-reference.com, accessed on August 18, 2012
5. ↑ A levantar vuelo  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El Observador, June 4, 2012, accessed August 18, 2012  
6. ↑ Campeones Nacionales 2001 (Spanish) in La República of March 11, 2002, accessed on August 11, 2013
7. ↑ Lo mejor del deporte uruguayo (Spanish) in El País of March 27, 2003, accessed on August 22, 2012
8. ↑ Mónica Falcioni fue quinta en salto triple (Spanish) in El País of June 23, 2003, accessed on August 18, 2012