de la CRUZ CAPANI Jovana

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Marathon
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	36th (2:35:49)

South American Championships

Year	Location	10,000m
2017	Luque, PAR	3rd (35:06.24)

World Cross Country Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
8	Team Cross Country Long Distance	2017	Kampala, UGA	176
36	Individual Cross Country Long Distance	2017	Kampala, UGA	35:48

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

Jova (Facebook profile, 10 Mar 2016)

Athlete

Two daughters including Nayara

Spanish

Rodolfo Gomez [personal], MEX

A knee injury prevented her from competing at the 2018 World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain. (becrowd.com, 09 Mar 2018)

She sustained a knee injury in 2017. The injury prevented her from taking part in a national competition in Peru. (elpoli.pe, 20 Oct 2017)

A knee injury meant she missed the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. (elcomercio.pe, 06 Jan 2018)

She took up the sport at age 12 in Huancayo, Peru. At age 18 she decided she wanted to focus on long-distance running full-time. (depor.com, 28 May 2021; elpoli.pe, 20 Oct 2017)

"I remember that I saw older athletes who could run more than me, and I wanted to train like them. Since I was little, I wanted to do this." (depor.com, 28 May 2021)

To win an Olympic medal and the New York City Marathon. (diariocorreo.pe, 18 Mar 2016)