EDWARD Alonso

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (20.23)
2012	London, GBR	1R (DQ)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	200m
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (DNS)
2017	London, GBR	Heats (20.61)
2015	Beijing, CHN	4th (19.87)
2013	Moscow, RUS	SF (20.67)
2011	Daegu, KOR	8th (DNF)
2009	Berlin, GER	2nd (19.81)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	200m
2019	Lima, PER	4th (20.55)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	200m
2019	1 x 5th, 2 x 8th
2018	1 x 4th, 1 x 8th
2017	1 x 7th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2018	200m	Monaco, MON	20.15
5	2019	200m	Doha, QAT	20.56
7	2017	200m	Rome, ITA	20.74
8	2019	200m	Brussels, BEL	28.80
8	2019	200m	Stockholm, SWE	20.88
8	2018	200m	Lausanne, SUI	20.86

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
7	2021	200m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Szekesfehervar, HUN	20.29

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2018	200m	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	20.17
2	2018	100m	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	10.08
6	2019	100m	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	10.29

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

Athlete

Barton Community College, United States of America

English, Spanish

Lance Brauman [personal], USA

His younger brother Mateo Edward is also a sprinter and represented Panama at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, OR, United States of America. He also competed at the 2020 South American Indoor Championships in Cochabamba, Bolivia. (worldathletics.org, 01 Feb 2020; elsiglo.com, 17 Mar 2016)

A muscle strain injury in his right leg prevented him from competing at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. (worldathletics.org, 29 Aug 2020; prensa.com, 02 Mar 2020; elsiglo.com.pa, 30 Sep 2019)

He struggled with his right hamstring in 2017 and left quadriceps in 2013 and 2012. (bbc.com, 21 Nov 2018)

Injury affected his performance at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Republic of Korea, and he did not compete at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. (deportes.terra.com.co, 02 Sep 2011; panama-america.com, 12 Sep 2011)

He suffered a hamstring injury in the final of the 200m at the 2010 Central American Games in Panama. (rolltide.com, 01 Oct 2011)

An injury prevented him from competing at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (prensa.com, 02 Mar 2020)

He took up athletics at school but also played other sports including baseball, basketball and football. At age 17 he chose to focus on athletics. (spikesmag.com, 25 Nov 2009)

"Like many other athletes, I started in the sport in a very casual way. Being at school at the end of 2005, beginning of 2006, my physical education teacher saw how fast I was and invited me to a meeting." (iaaf.org, 29 Dec 2009)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (jmdeportes.com, 21 Mar 2021)

Winning the 200m at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco. (worldathletics.org, 29 Aug 2020; bbc.com, 21 Nov 2018)

"Timing is everything." (Instagram profile, 12 Mar 2021)

He was Panama's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (tokyo2020.org, 11 Jan 2021)