Paula Sevilla
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| Full name | Paula Sevilla López de la Vieja |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Born | 28 June 1997 La Solana, Ciudad Real, Spain |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and Field |
| Event(s) | 100m, 200m |
Medal record | |
Paula Sevilla López de la Vieja (born 28 June 1997, in La Solana, Ciudad Real) is a Spanish athlete. She was the Spanish 100m national champion in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, she became the Spanish national champion in 200m, and in 2025 Spanish indoor champion over 400 metres. At the 2025 European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she tied the national record over 400m while winning the bronze medal.
Career
[edit]Sevilla was part of the Spanish team that won gold at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland in the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay. In 2022, Sevilla's new personal best time of 22.86 placed her as the second fastest Spanish woman over 200m of all time, behind only Sandra Myers.[1][2] When subsequently winning the Spanish national athletics championships shortly afterwards Sevilla actually ran a lower time than her new personal best, winning in a time of 22.73, but it was classified as a wind assisted race.[3]
Sevilla was part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, twice breaking the Spanish national record. The team had initially broken the national record running 42.61 in the qualifying heats to qualify for the final.[4] In the final the following day they lowered the national record again, to 42.58 seconds.[5]
She was then announced as part of the Spanish relay team for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich. In Munich, Sevilla also competed individually in the 200m and finished tenth fastest in the semi-finals.[6]
She ran as part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[7] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[8] She competed in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[9][10]
In February 2025, she moved to second on the Spanish all-time indoor 400 metres list behind only Sandra Myers, running 51.20 seconds to win the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships.[11] Competing at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships, she won her 400m semi-final in a time of 51.23 seconds.[12] In the final, she equalled the Spanish indoor record of 50.99 seconds to win the bronze medal behind Lieke Klaver and Henriette Jæger.[13]
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Paula Sevilla reta a la élite continental". La Tribuna de Ciuadreal.
- ^ "Paula Sevilla sigue haciendo historia: otro récord y billete para el Europeo". valdespenadigital.com.
- ^ "Paula Sevilla flies in Nerja". Indonewyork.com.
- ^ "Women's 4x100 enters final with Spanish record". nationalworldnews.com.
- ^ "Éxito internacional de las atletas Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla". ondacero.com.
- ^ "Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla en los Europeos de Atletismo". ondacero.es.
- ^ "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
- ^ "#EspañaAtletismo Road to Roma: Preselección definitiva". Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
- ^ "Women's 4 x 100 Metres Relay - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "Spain's list for athletics at the Paris Olympics". sport.es. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ "Doroshchuk clears 2.32m world lead in Kyiv". European Athletics. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Crumpey, Euan (7 March 2025). "Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
- ^ "Skotheim sets European heptathlon record in Apeldoorn". World Athletics. 8 March 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
External links
[edit]- Paula Sevilla at World Athletics
- Paula Sevilla at RFEA (in Spanish)
- Paula Sevilla at Olympics.com
- Paula Sevilla at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Paula Sevilla – COE – Paris 2024 (in Spanish)
- Paula Sevilla López De La Vieja at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archived)
European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's 4 × 100 metres relay | |
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- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
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- European Games bronze medalists for Spain
- European Games medalists in athletics
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