Mariandrée Chacón (born 6 November 2004), also spelled Mariandre Chacón, is a Guatemalan sprinter specializing in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a multiple-time Central American Championships in Athletics winner and she was chosen to represent Guatemala in the 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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| Born | November 6, 2004[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Huité, Zacapa Department, Guatemala | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Guatemala | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Sport of athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 metres 200 metres | |||||||||||||||||
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Career
editAt the 2020 Central American Championships in Athletics, Chacón earned her first international medals by winning the 100 m and finishing runner-up in the 200 m. She repeated that performance in both events at the 2021 Central American Championships in Athletics. The following month at the 2021 NACAC under-18 championships, Chacón placed 3rd in the 100 m and 2nd in the 200 m. She finished her 2021 championship season at the U20 Pan American Games, where she qualified for the 100 m and 200 m finals placing 8th and 6th respectively. At the 2022 Central American Championships in Athletics, Chacón earned gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m as well as a bronze in the 4 × 100 m anchoring the Guatemalan team.[1]
Competing in her first global championship at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships, Chacón qualified for the semifinals in the 100 m and 200 m but did not advance to the finals in either event. She returned to contest both events again the following year, failing to advance past the first round in the 100 m but moving forward as the last semifinal qualifier in the 200 m before finishing last in her semifinal.[1]
Chacón competed in the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games, but she was disqualified for a false start in the 100 m and finished next to last in the 200 m. She improved her placings later that month at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships, qualifying for both the 100 m and 200 m finals and placing 7th and 8th respectively. At the 2024 Central American Championships in Athletics, she was able to repeat her 100 m victory from 2022 but got silver in the 200 m behind Cristal Cuervo.[1]
In July 2024, Chacón was selected to represent Guatemala in the 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She was selected via a "universality place" that allows countries that would otherwise not have qualified to send one athlete in the 100 metres.[2] She became the first female athletics Olympian from Guatemala in 52 years, and is the only female Guatemalan athletics competitor at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[3]
Personal life
editChacón is from Huité, Zacapa Department, Guatemala where she attended Colegio San Francisco Javier De Zacapa. She then majored in exercise science at Jacksonville University.[4]
Statistics
editPersonal best progression
edit| # | Mark | Pl. | Competition | Venue | Date | Ref. |
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| 1 | 12.27 (+0.6 m/s) |  |
Campeonato Centroamericano U18 y U20 | San Salvador, El Salvador | 16 May 2019 | [5] |
| 2 | 12.16A (±0.0 m/s) | |
Guatemalan Athletics Championships | Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 7 Jun 2019 | [6] |
| 3 | 12.10A | |
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 6 Mar 2020 | [7] | |
| 4 | 11.97A (+1.7 m/s) | |
Torneo Nacional | Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 19 May 2021 | [8] |
| 5 | 11.79A (+1.3 m/s) | 7th | Costa Rican Athletics Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 28 May 2021 | [9] |
| 6 | 11.72 (±0.0 m/s) |  (Heat 1-22) |
Pan American U23 Games | Cali, Colombia | 29 Nov 2021 | [10] |
| 7 | 11.66 (−0.2 m/s) | |
Central American U20 Championships | Managua, Nicaragua | 16 Jun 2022 | [11] |
| # | Mark | Pl. | Competition | Venue | Date | Ref. |
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| 1 | 25.03A (+0.1 m/s) | |
Guatemalan Athletics Championships | Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 7 Jun 2019 | [6] |
| 2 | 24.84A (−0.6 m/s) | (Round B) |
XXXI Central American Senior Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 27 Dec 2020 | [12] |
| 3 | 24.72A (−0.1 m/s) | |
Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 12 Mar 2021 | [13] | |
| 4 | 24.56A (+1.1 m/s) | |
Torneo Nacional | Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala | 20 May 2021 | [8] |
| 5 | 24.47A (+1.0 m/s) |  |
Central American Championships | San José, Costa Rica | 25 Jun 2021 | [14] |
| 6 | 24.06A (−0.1 m/s) | |
NACAC U23 | San José, Costa Rica | 10 Jul 2021 | [15] |
| 7 | 23.98 (±0.0 m/s) | 6th | Pan American U23 Games | Cali, Colombia | 2 Dec 2021 | [10] |
| 8 | 23.97 (+0.6 m/s) | |
Central American Championships | Managua, Nicaragua | 1 Jul 2022 | [16] |
| 9 | 23.91 (−0.3 m/s) | (Heat 2-19) |
World Athletics U20 Championships | Cali, Colombia | 3 Aug 2022 | [17] |
| 10 | 23.72 (+1.9 m/s) | (Round C) |
UNF East Coast Relays | Jacksonville, FL | 27 Apr 2023 | [18] |
References
edit- ^ a b c d Mariandrée Chacón at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- ^ "Mariandree Chacon to represent Guatemala in Summer Olympics". www.ju.edu. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Mariandree Chacon Makes History as Guatemala's Sole Female Track Athlete at Summer Olympics". BVM Sports. 15 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
- ^ "Mariandree Chacon - 2024 - Track and Field". Jacksonville University. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
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