Maria Vicente

Maria Vicente
Vicente 2019 at the Götzis all-around meeting
Full name	María Vicente García
nation	Spain
birthday	28th March 2001 (age 19)
place of birth	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat , Spain
Career
discipline	Heptathlon , triple jump
Best performance	6115 points, 13.95 m
society	ISS - L'Hospitalet
Trainer	Fernando Martinez Esteban
status	active
Medal table
U20 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Youth Olympic Games 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U18 European Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
U20 European Championships gold Borås 2019 6115 points  Youth Olympic Games silver Buenos Aires 2018 13.67 m  U18 world championships gold Nairobi 2017 5612 points  U18 European Championships gold Győr 2018 13.95 m gold Győr 2018 6221 points
last change: January 18, 2020

María Vicente García (born March 28, 2001 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat ) is a Spanish triple jumper and heptathlete . Since 2018 she has held the U18 world record in heptathlon.

Athletic career

María Vicente gained her first international experience at the U18 World Championships 2017 in Nairobi , where she won the gold medal in the heptathlon with 5612 points. Then she won with 13.72 m at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr in the triple jump. In 2018 she won the U18 European Championships with a new world record of 6221 points in the heptathlon there. In addition, she also won gold in the triple jump with 13.95 m and prevailed in a high-class competition against Bulgarian Aleksandra Natschewa . So she qualified for the European Championships in Berlin , where she was eliminated with 13.50 m in the first round. In October she won the silver medal behind Natschewa at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires with 13.67 m. In 2019 she improved the Spanish indoor pentathlon record in Antequere to 4412 points and qualified for the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow , where she came ninth with 4363 points. In mid-July she won the U20 European Championships in Borås with a new Spanish record of 6115 points in the heptathlon and could not finish her final race with the Spanish 4 x 100 meter relay.

In 2019 Vicente became Spanish champion heptathlon and indoor pentathlon.

Personal best

• Triple jump: 13.95 m (+1.1 m / s), July 8, 2018 in Győr
  • Triple jump (hall): 13.71 m, February 8, 2019 in Madrid
• Heptathlon: 6115 points, July 19, 2019 in Borås ( Spanish record )
• Heptathlon (U18): 6221 points, July 6, 2018 in Győr ( world best )
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4412 points, February 16, 2019 in Antequera ( Spanish record )

Web links

Commons : María Vicente  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• María Vicente in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Phil Minshull: Vicente breaks world U18 heptathlon best at European U18 Championships ( English ) IAAF. July 6, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
2. ↑ Phil Minshull: Kokhan's hammer feats provide the highlight of European U20 Championships ( English ) IAAF. July 21, 2019. Accessed January 18, 2020.