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World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
11	2018	1500m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	4:20.63

World Half Marathon Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
14	Half Marathon Team	2020	Gdynia, POL	3:36.50
61	Half Marathon	2020	Gdynia, POL	1:12:58

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, Coach

Partner Manuel Ripolles

Playas de Castellon [Spain]

Manuel Ripolles [personal, partner], ESP, from 2008

Her partner Manuel Ripolles is an athletics coach. (rtve.es, 27 Apr 2021)

She took up the sport at age 11 in Almussafes, Spain. (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

"I used to run a fun race in my town and people from the athletics club saw my potential and convinced me to sign up. Although Almussafes did not have a proper track, we trained around the football pitch." (rfea.es; 05 May 2021; eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

"I train morning and afternoon. In the morning I usually do my first training and in the afternoon I work as a coach teaching athletics to children and then I do my second training." (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

Meeting the Olympic standard in her first ever marathon at the 2021 NN Mission Marathon in Enschede, Netherlands. (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021; yosoynoticia.es, 20 Apr 2021)

Spanish athlete Marta Galimany. (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

Coach Manuel Ripolles and her parents. (eleconomico.es, 30 Apr 2021)

"The success of the elite athlete is not a matter of chance, but of work and many sacrifices." (lasprovincias.es, 02 May 2021)