Martina Weil | |
Full Name: | Martina Weil Restrepo |
Nationality: | Chilean |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | Sprint |
Birth Date: | 12 July 1999 |
Height: | 1.80 m |
Pb: | 100m: 12.10 (Santiago, 2017) 200m: 23.14 (Deinze, 2022) 400m: 51.05 NR (Hengelo, 2024) 4x100m Relay: 44.19 NR (Santiago, 2023) |
Martina Weil Restrepo (born 12 July 1999) is a Chilean track and field athlete who competes as a sprinter. She is the Chilean national record holder over 400 metres.[1]
Weil was trained at the Villa María Academy where she was coached by her Olympic medal winning mother Ximena Restrepo, before relocating to Belgium.[2]
Weil became Chile's u20 national champion in the 100 metres and 200 meters at 18 years-old.[3] At the Pan American Youth Games, in Cali in 2021, she finished second in the 400 metres with a time of 52.35, behind the Fiordaliza Cofil.[4]
In May 2023, Weil broke the Chilean national record for the 400 metres, and then proceeded to lower it twice more before clocking 51.07 at the Diamond League event in Silesia, Poland in July 2023.[5] [6]
In November 2023, Weil won a gold medal in the 400 meters Pan American games event in Santiago, Chile, 32 years after her mother claimed silver.[7] At the same championships she was part of a Chilean team who set a new national record for the women’s 4x100m relay to secure a silver medal.[8]
In July 2024, she lowered her own national 400 metres record to 51.05 seconds in Hengelo.[9]
She is the daughter of former Olympians; sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist Ximena Restrepo and shot putter Gert Weil.[10]
Representing | ||||||
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2017 | South American Championships | Asunción, Paraguay | 11th (h) | 400 m | 57.00 | |
4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 46.02 | ||||
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:40.00 | ||||
2018 | South American Games | Cochabamba, Bolivia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:33.42 |
World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 23rd (h) | 400 m | 54.52 | ||
Ibero-American Championships | Trujillo, Peru | 5th | 200 m | 24.81 | ||
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:43.56 | ||||
South American U23 Championships | Cuenca, Ecuador | 4th | 200 m | 23.78 | ||
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m | 52.60 | |||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 45.55 | |||
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:44.82 | ||||
2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 6th (B) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:33.54 | |
2021 | South American Championships | Guayaquil, Ecuador | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:34.89 |
South American U23 Championships | Guayaquil, Ecuador | 3rd | 400 m | 53.47 | ||
3rd | 4 × 100 m relay | 46.06 | ||||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:41.48 | |||
Junior Pan American Games (U23) | Cali, Colombia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 52.35 | |
5th | 4 × 100 m relay | 45.10 | ||||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:38.24 | |||
2022 | Ibero-American Championships | La Nucía, Spain | 8th | 400 m | 53.03 | |
Bolivarian Games | Valledupar, Colombia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 52.64 | |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:36.98 | |||
South American Games | Asunción, Paraguay | 4th | 200 m | 23.48 | ||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 400 m | 51.92 | |||
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:37.58 | ||||
2023 | South American Championships | São Paulo, Brazil | 4th | 200 m | 23.16 | |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m | 51.11 | |||
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:35.39 | ||||
World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 24th (h) | 400 m | 51.35 | ||
Pan American Games | Santiago, Chile | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 400 m | 51.48 | |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 4 × 100 m relay | 44.19 | |||
6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:37.00 |