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Just last weekend, Chile had a historic participation in the World Relay Championshipinstance where, unfortunately, The 4×100 relay team, composed of Anaís Hernández, María Ignacia Montt, Isidora Jiménez and Viviana Olivares, could not qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
However, the “Chilean Pumas” They were also not in a position to break the national record in the specialty, which they achieved when Anaís Hernández, Martina Weil, Isidora Jiménez and María Ignacia Montt won the silver medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago.
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Precisely, The absence of the Pan-American champion at the individual level in the 400-meter dash drew attention, issue that they came out to explain in the Chilean Athletic Federation.
“Martina Weil is a tremendous athlete, running fast is a great contribution to any relay, but she talked to us and asked us not to be on the teams to give main attention to her event, the 400 meter dash. She is very excited to make the minimum mark and qualify directly for the Olympic Games. We agreed with their request,” commented Felipe de la Fuente, technical manager of Fedachi, in dialogue with Sports DNAwho valued the national participation in the World Relay Championship.
“It has been an achievement to have qualified among the 32 best teams in the world in the World Relay Championships. From that point of view, we are very satisfied. Work is good. NWe create a lot of expectations for you, they are training very well and when they get together they have created that team cohesion. It could have been better, but we were very satisfied under all the circumstances. We were 12 hundredths away from Chile’s record“, he said, in addition to defending the fact that Belén Ituarte competed on Friday and Viviana Olivares on Saturday.
“The starting team included Viviana Olivares, but she had a slight discomfort and we preferred to take care of her in the first race. lThe decisions regarding these changes go through the head of the speed area, Juan Pablo Raveau, and they made the decision with Ricardo Roach, who was with them in the World Relay Championships,” concluded Felipe de la Fuente in the dialogue with Sports DNA.
