Marcela Britos

Marcela Britos
Personal information
Full nameMarcela Valeria Britos
Nationality Uruguay
Born (1985-02-26) 26 February 1985 (age 39)
Maldonado, Uruguay
Height1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
Weight57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event800 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best800 m: 2:06.22

Marcela Valeria Britos (born February 26, 1985, in Maldonado) is a Uruguayan track and field athlete, who specialized in middle distance running.[1] She represented Uruguay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and competed in the women's 800 metres. She ran in the third heat of the event, against six other athletes, including Kenya's Pamela Jelimo, who eventually became an Olympic champion in the final. Britos finished the race in last place, with a time of 2:08.98, but was upgraded to sixth position in this heat, when Croatia's Vanja Perišić had been disqualified for failing the doping test.[2]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marcela Britos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  2. ^ "Women's 800m Round 1 – Heat 3". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2012.


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