Alessandra Aguilar

Road running, Olympic athlete

1978 –

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Who is Alessandra Aguilar?

Alessandra Aguilar is a Spanish long-distance runner who specialises in marathon running. She represented her country in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics and at the World Championships in Athletics the following year.

Before focusing on the marathon, she competed mainly in cross country running competitions. She represented Spain at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships every year from 2000 to 2010, with the sole exception of 2007. Her best finish was twenty-fourth place at the 2009 edition. She won a team gold medal with the Spanish women at the 2007 European Cross Country Championships in Toro, Spain via a seventeenth place finish. She also won a team bronze medal at the 2009 European Cross Country Championships.

She has a best of 32:26 minutes for the 10K distance, set at the 2007 Great Manchester Run. At the 2008 Granollers Half Marathon she took second place behind Rahab Ndungu, running a personal best time of 1:11:33 for the distance. She made her debut over the full distance at the Rotterdam Marathon that April and set a personal best of 2:29:03 to take third place.

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Born
Jul 1, 1978
Lugo
Also known as
  • Агилар, Алессандра
Nationality
  • Spain
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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