Dominican Republic Marilady Paulino was announced this Wednesday at the National Athletics Center in Budapest. World champion in the 400 meters with a time of 48.76 seconds, a national record.
Women’s 400m podium 🙌
🥇 @Marileidy_P 🇩🇴
🥈Natalia Kachmarek 🇵🇱
🥉 Sada Williams 🇧🇧#World champions in athletics pic.twitter.com/hLZNcnjUEz— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 23, 2023
Paulino, 26 years old won with notorious superiority, despite the fact that her reaction time at the start (0.200) was the worst of the eight competitors. The Dominican with her explosive power was climb the poles and at the finish line, he broke away from his rivals by several meters, stopping the clock at 48.76, which was also a record for the world championships.
Dominican Marileydi Paulino is the new world champion in the 400 flat meters. pic.twitter.com/3cEV04zRHA
— Christian Jimenez (@ CristianJ30) August 23, 2023
She was accompanied on the podium by a Polish woman Natalia Kachmarek (49.57), silver and barbados Sada Williams (49.60)bronze.
Marilady Paulino arrived at the World Championships in Budapest, accrediting second best time of the season (48.98)just behind the American Sydney McLaughlin-Levron, who did not compete in the Hungarian city due to knee discomfort.
With this gold medal Marilady Paulino becomes first Dominican woman to become world champion on an individual levelor by appending your name to the name Felix Sanchez, who won two golds in the 400 hurdles at Edmonton in 2001 and Paris in 2003.
Marilady Paulino it was already second place in the world in Eugene 2022 400 meters and a gold medalist in the 4×400 mixed relay at the same championship. Besides, it was two-time silver medalist in both disciplines Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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