GARCIA LEON Kimberly

Date of Birth: 19 Oct 1993

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Olympic ScholarshipYouth Olympian

Place of birth: LIMA

Birth Country:

Peru

Place of residence : HUANCAYO

Residence Country:

Peru

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's 20km Race Walk	DNF

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Sapporo Odori Park	Women's 20km Race Walk Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	14th (1:32:09)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	5000m Walk
2010	Singapore, SIN	7th (23:17.04)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2017	London, GBR	7th (1:29:13)
2015	Beijing, CHN	DNF
2013	Moscow, RUS	32nd (1:33:57)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	20km Race Walk
2019	Lima, PER	2nd (1:29:00)

South American Race Walking Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	20km Race Walk	2018	Sucua, ECU	1:32:48

World Race Walking Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2017	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	Rio Maior, POR	1:31:00
2	2019	20km Race Walk	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Lazaro Cardenas, MEX	1:29:33
2	2017	20km Race Walk	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Lima, PER	1:29:15
3	2018	20km Race Walk	South American Race Walking Championships	Sucua, ECU	1:32:48
4	2018	20km Race Walk	Monterrey	Monterrey, MEX	1:32:56
5	2017	20km Race Walk	Monterrey	Monterrey, MEX	1:35:58
7	2021	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Challenge	A Corunya, ESP	1:32:13
7	2017	20km Race Walk	World Athletics Championships	London, GBR	1:29:13
8	2018	20km Race Walk	World Race Walking Team Championships	Taicang, CHN	1:28:56

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Kimmy (diariocorreo.pe, 10 Jul 2015)

Drawing, origami. (diariocorreo.pe, 17 Apr 2020)

Occupation:

Athlete, Student

Management - Continental University, Peru

Languages spoken:

Pedro Canizares [personal], CUB

She began experiencing pain in her right knee a month before the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, which she later discovered was the result of a stress fracture in her shinbone. She was able to compete in Lima, where she won a silver medal, but the effort caused an excess of fluid on her lower right leg. She underwent surgery soon after and missed the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (peru21.pe, 03 Jan 2020; elcomercio.pe, 28 Aug 2019; depor.com, 15 Aug 2019; elbocon.pe, 06 Aug 2019)

She took up athletics at age five. (elcomercio.pe, 07 Aug 2010)

She followed one of her cousins into the sport. "At age five my father sent me to train with her. I wanted to imitate her and I liked it. My coach Pedro Canizares said, 'That little girl has talent' and I started to get motivated." (depor.com, 10 Jul 2019)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (peru21.pe, 03 Jan 2020)

Winning silver in the 20km walk at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (peru21.pe, 03 Jan 2020)

Ecuadorian race walker Jefferson Perez. (peru21.pe, 03 Jan 2020)

In 2019 she received the Libertarian Sun distinction from the government of the Junin department in Peru. (regionjunin.gob.pe, 13 Aug 2019)

She was flag bearer for Peru at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. (coperu.org, 20 Jul 2016)

General Interest

General
KILOMETRE 17
She has worked with a psychologist to help her deal with the fatigue she feels after about 17 kilometres in the 20km walk. "I struggle to pass through kilometre 17. The fatigue comes and there is pain all over the body. If you manage to pass this threshold, you can make the difference. So I have trained for this, and did concentration work with a psychologist. I laid down for five minutes and imagined a race. When I was reaching kilometre 17, he told me to feel tired and I began imagining that in my mind. By doing it every day you are training your mind and you're really feeling it." (peru21.pe, 03 Jan 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
DNF:: Did not finish

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