DIRECTED TO PARIS

Ecuadorian marathon runner Rosalba Chacha convinced that it will be a challenge to participate, at the age of 40, for the fourth time in someone The Olympic Games, those in Paris in 2024. after his recent placement at the Hamburg Marathon.

“Sorting some rooms The Olympic Games are a great challengedespite my age, so we have to keep working a lot more,” Chacha said at a press conference in Quito, after becoming second the athlete from Ecuador won his quota for Paris 2024.

Chacha got a ticket for her rooms National Olympics record including, with a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes and 50 seconds, and surpassed the time set by Silvia Ortiz in Seville in February 2023 with 2:27:33.

The athlete pointed out and recognized the shown lock. “That was the goal we set for ourselves with everyone who is with me, because it was too demanding, but not impossible, for which we trained. quite difficult for this Olympic date“, he expressed.

Born in the Andean town of Ambato but trained in the Ecuadorian capital, the long-distance runner insisted her age will not stop her from pursuing other goals, such as the national record. “Be in the games Olympic Games, World and Pan American it is a personal challenge, regardless of age, he noted.

Chacha remembered that she was gone Ambato is too small to settle in Quito, where she started running in student competitions and that at the age of 18 she married an athlete and they had to decide which of the two would continue a professional career in athletics.

She was the winner, she said, laughing. “The demands are increasing every day, for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 the minimum mark was 2h29:30, and for Paris 2024 it is 2h26:50,” the athlete pointed out.

“I did the tour in 2 hours, 26 minutes and 34 seconds and that’s nice, because while they as a brand shorten the minimum time, a person sets goals and manages to achieve them”, Chacha pointed.

After his campaign in London in 2012. Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020he said: “I dreamed of being in a few Olympic games”.

“Those were my goals, I have to fulfill them (next) and if.” I’m dying trying, I’ll die happy,” he said.

Having qualified for Paris 2024, the next goal is Chacha will be the World Athletics Championships in Budapest this year, and Pan American Games in Santiago de Chile.