Gold for Mexico! Paola Morán takes podium at World University Games

 In a photo finish, Mexican sprinter Paola Morán won the gold medal in the women’s 400 meters at the World University Games.

Morán won in a time of 51.52 seconds at this event, which was held at the San Paolo Stadium athletics facilities in Naples, Italy.

The race was run at 12:15 p.m. Mexican time. Paola beat Ugandan Leni Shida’s time of 51.64 by just 12 milliseconds. French athlete Armandine Brossier, with a time of 51.77 seconds, came third. 

Paola, a Tec de Monterrey student, qualified for the final by winning her heat in a time of 51.77, and today she repeated the feat to take gold.

Jorge Lozano, the Tec’s Western Region Athletic and Sports Director, spotlighted the young athlete’s achievement.

“We are so proud of Paola in Guadalajara and in the entire Tec community for this wonderful achievement!

“She’s a very committed individual with clear objectives, who gives 100% in everything she does. She is also an excellent student with an average grade of over 90,” he said.

The young 22-year-old Guadalajara native went to this international competition with her place at the next Olympic Games assured by recording 51.32 seconds in the  2019 National Open Athletics Championships.

Additionally, when she achieved this time, Paola rose to 14th place in the world rankings for this event.

With this victory under her belt, the Tec student can now focus all her attention on the 2019 Panamerican Games in Lima, Peru; the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar; and the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.

Paola is a student of Nutrition and Integral Wellbeing on the Guadalajara campus and its one of the 26 Tec sportsmen and women to form part of the Mexican team that traveled to compete in the thirtieth World University Games.

Tomorrow, July 11, Mexican athlete and Tec student Fernando Arodio will be looking for another medal for Mexico in the final of the 400-meters hurdles.
 

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