Rosibel García

Rosibel García
Full name	Rosibel García Mina
nation	Colombia
birthday	13th February 1981 (age 39)
place of birth	Jamundí , Colombia
size	167 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
status	active
Medal table
Pan American Games 0 × 2 × 2 × South American Championships 9 × 4 × 2 ×
Pan American Games silver Rio de Janeiro 2007 800 m bronze Rio de Janeiro 2007 1500 m silver Guadaljara 2011 1500 m bronze Guadaljara 2011 800 m South American Championships silver Manaus 2001 4 × 400 m bronze Barquisimeto 2003 800 m bronze Barquisimeto 2003 4 × 400 m gold Cali 2005 800 m gold Cali 2005 1500 m silver Cali 2005 4 × 400 m gold São Paulo 2007 1500 m gold Lima 2009 800 m gold Lima 2009 1500 m gold Buenos Aires 2011 800 m gold Buenos Aires 2011 1500 m gold Cartagena 2013 800 m gold Cartagena 2013 1500 m silver Cartagena 2013 4 × 400 m silver Asunción 2017 1500 m
last change: January 19, 2018

Rosibel García Mina (born February 13, 1981 in Jamundí ) is a Colombian middle-distance runner .

Athletic career

Rosibel García gained her first international experience at the 1998 Córdoba Junior South American Championships , where she won the silver medals in the two sprint relays , reached fourth place over 400 meters and broke off her run over 200 meters. At the Pan American Junior Championships in Tampa , she was fourth with the 4-by-100-meter relay. She then won the gold medal in the 4-by-400-meter relay and bronze in the 800-meter run at the Junior South American Championships in Concepción . In 2000 she reached the semi-finals over 400 meters at the Junior World Championships in Santiago de Chile and was disqualified in the preliminary run with the Colombian relay. In 2001 she won the silver medal at the South American Championships in Manaus with the 4 x 400 meter relay and finished fourth over 800 meters. At the Juegos Bolivarianos in Ambato , she won the silver medal over this distance.

In 2003 she won the bronze medals over 800 meters and with the relay at the South American Championships in Barquisimeto . At the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo , she was eliminated in the run-up over 800 meters. In 2004 she won the bronze medal with the relay at the Ibero-American Championships in Huelva and finished sixth over 800 meters. In 2005 she won the gold medals in the 800 and 1500 meters and the silver medal with the Colombian relay at the 2005 South American Championships in Cali . Then she won the gold medal in all these disciplines at the Juegos Bolivarianos in Armenia . At the Ibero-American Championships in Ponce 2006 she won the silver medal with the relay and the gold medal over 800 meters. At the Central America and Caribbean Games in Cartagena she was fifth with the relay, won silver over 800 meters behind Zulia Calatayud and the gold medal over 1500 meters.

In 2007 she won the gold medal over 1500 meters and silver with the relay at the South American Championships in São Paulo . In addition, she did not have to finish her final run over 800 meters. At the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro she won the silver medal over 800 meters and with a new national record the bronze medal over 1500 meters. At the World Championships in Osaka , however, she was eliminated over 800 meters in the first round. In 2008 she won gold medals over 800 and 1500 meters at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Cali and also qualified for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where she reached the semi-finals and set a new national record there over 800 meters.

At the South American Championships in Lima in 2009 , she again won the double over 800 and 1500 meters and thus qualified for the World Championships in Berlin , where she was eliminated again in the first round. At the Juegos Bolivarianos in Sucre in November she also won the two middle distance distances, as well as the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Mayagüez 2010. In 2011, she won both gold medals in her specialty disciplines for the third time at the South American Championships in Buenos Aires and reached the world championships in Daegu the semi-finals over 800 meters. At the Pan American Games in Guadalajara this time she won bronze over 800 meters and silver over 1500 meters behind the Cuban Adriana Muñoz .

In 2012 she won the gold medal over 800 meters at the Ibero-American Championships in Barquisimeto and qualified again for the Olympic Games in London , where she was eliminated in the semifinals with 2: 00.16 minutes . In 2013 the gold medals over 800 and 1500 meters and silver with the relay at the South American Championships in Cartagena . At the Juegos Bolivarianos in Trujillo won the gold medal in all three disciplines. In 2016 she won gold again over 800 meters at the Ibero-American Championships in Rio de Janeiro and in 2017 she won two silver medals over 1500 meters at the South American Championships in Luque and the Juegos Bolivarianos in Santa Marta .

So far, she has been Colombian champion over 400, 800 and 1500 meters 14 times.

Personal best

• 400 meters: 53.46 s, May 24, 2003 in Bogotá
• 800 meters: 1: 59.38 min, August 16, 2008 in Beijing ( Colombian record )
• 1500 meters: 4: 09.75 min, November 26th 2013 in Trujillo

Web links

• Rosibel García in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athletics profile at all-Athletics (web archive)