FERNANDEZ Maria Pia

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	1500m
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (4:09.45)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	1500m
2019	Lima, PER	5th (4:10.93)

South American Championships

Year	Location	1500m
2021	Guayaquil, ECU	2nd (4:15.27)
2019	Lima, PER	1st (4:27.44)
2017	Luque, PAR	4th (4:23.50)

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2017	1500m	World Challenge	Sao Bernardo do Campo, BRA	4:22.16
5	2019	3000m	World Challenge	Braganca Paulista, BRA	9:38.94
9	2017	3000m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	9:38.43

World Cross Country Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
100	Individual Cross Country Long Distance	2019	Aarhus, DEN	44:21

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

Armed Forces Athlete

Physiotherapy

Spanish

Sebastian Allende [personal]

She sustained an Achilles tendon injury in 2020. (ovaciondigital.com.uy, 22 May 2020)

She was diagnosed with patellar tendinitis in her right knee in early 2019. The problem kept her out of action for more than a month. (elpais.com.uy, 01 Dec 2019)

She took up the sport at age 13 in Trinidad, Uruguay. (elpais.com.uy, 01 Dec 2019)

She was encouraged to start competing by one of her teachers. "I've always been very competitive. I have a sibling, two years older, and we always competed with each other. At school we had to run around a park and I took it as a competition and ran in front of the boys. The sports coach saw my speed and told me to enter a two-kilometre race. I won. At that race was Sebastian Allende, my coach, who invited me to join the athletics school." (ladiaria.com.uy, 29 Mar 2020)

To compete at the Olympic Games, and to win a medal at the Pan American Games. (ladiaria.com.uy, 29 Mar 2020)

She has regular training camps at the High Performance Centre in Leon, Spain. (ecosregionales.uy, 28 Feb 2021; elpais.com.uy, 01 Dec 2019)

Winning gold in the 1500m at the 2019 South American Championships in Lima, Peru. (ladiaria.com.uy, 29 Mar 2020)

Coach Sebastian Allende. (ladiaria.com.uy, 29 Mar 2020)

She was named Best Female Athlete in the athletics category for the 2018/19 season by the Uruguayan Olympic Committee. (ladiaria.com.uy, 29 Mar 2020; cou.org.uy, 19 Nov 2019; futbol.com.uy, 19 Nov 2019)