Beatriz Pascual Explained

Birth Date:9 May 1982
Sport:Athletics
Event:20km Race Walk

Beatriz Pascual Rodríguez (born 9 May 1982 in Viladecans, Barcelona) is a Spanish race walker.She holds the women's national record for Spain in the 5000 m track walk (20:53.97).[1] She was also Spain's national champion in the 20 km walk event in 2006 and 2008. She represented Spain at the Olympics in 2008 and finished sixth in the women's 20 km walk. She has also competed at the World Championships in Athletics, taking 13th in 2007 and 6th in 2009. She won the bronze medal at the 2005 Mediterranean Games.

Pascual suffered an injury in November 2010 and returned to training in March 2010. She finished in eleventh at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, but she went on to win at a meeting on home soil at the Gran Premio Cantones de La Coruña in June 2010.[2] She was ninth in the 20 km walk at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. She began 2012 with a win at the Rio Maior GP.[3] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished in 8th place.[4]

Achievements

Representing
1999World Youth ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland11th5000 m24:32.10
2000European Race Walking Cup (U20)Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany6th10 km46:44
World Junior ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile6th10,000 m47:14.79
2002European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany12th20 km1:32:38
World Race Walking CupTurin, Italy19th20 km1:34:28
2003European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland4th20 km1:37:28
2004World Race Walking CupNaumburg, Germany18th20 km1:30:22
2005Mediterranean GamesAlmería, Spain3rd20 km1:36:27
2006European ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden20th20 km1:36:03
2007World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan13th20 km1:35:13
2008World Race Walking CupCheboksary, Russia25th20 km1:33:55
Olympic GamesBeijing, PR China6th20 km1:27:44
2009European Race Walking CupMetz, France6th20 km1:35:28
bgcolor=silver 2ndTeam – 20 km18 pts
World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany6th20 km1:30:40
2010World Race Walking CupChihuahua, México11th20 km1:36:08
European ChampionshipsBarcelona, Spain5th20 km1:29:52
2011World ChampionshipsDaegu, South Korea9th20 km1:31:46
2012World Race Walking CupSaransk, Russia5th20 km1:30:46
Olympic GamesLondon, Great Britain8th20 km1:27:56
2013European Race Walking CupDudince, Slovakia9th20 km1:32:53
3rdTeam – 20 km39 pts
World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russian Federation6th20 km1:29:00
2014World Race Walking CupTaicang, China21st20 km1:29:22
European ChampionshipsZurich, Switzerland8th20 km1:29:02

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: pascualbeatriz.xls . 2008-06-02 . 2016-06-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624005231/http://www.rfea.es/sirfea/ficheros/personas/almacen/pascualbeatriz.pdf . dead .
  2. Valiente, Emeterio (2010-06-20). Zhu and Pascual nab La Coruña titles – IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-06-20.
  3. Fernandes, Antonio Manuel (2012-04-14). New winners in Rio Maior – IAAF Race Walking Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-04-21.
  4. Web site: London 2012 20km race walk women Results - Olympic athletics.

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