Athletics: Florencia Borelli wins the bronze medal in France with a new South American record

This Saturday, January 28, 2023, it will remain as another unforgettable page for the current generation of athletes from our midfielder. In Sabadell has arrived the novelty of the South American record of the 1,500 meters indoors set by Phaedra Moon on his debut in that specialty, scoring 4m.12s.95. Phaedra also bettered the national record set on Wednesday 25 by Florence Borrelli in Valencia. But a few moments later, during another meeting on the World Athletics indoor circuit, in Lyon (France), Borelli set the South American record for the 3,000 meters by clocking 8m.59s.61. The well-known athlete from Mar del Plata finished third in the race won by the Ethiopian Tigist Ketema with 8m54s26, followed by Ugandan Sarah Chelangat with 8m56s.08.

Borelli becomes like this the first South American athlete which drops 9 minutes in the “indoor” 3,000 meters. The previous South American record belonged to the Venezuelan Joselyn Brea with 9m04s67 from February 8 last year in Sabadell, while the national record was held by Griselda González for more than three decades (9m25s75 on February 17, 1991 in Seville). Already last year Borelli had become the first South American athlete to go 9 minutes on the outdoor track. He did it on 16th April in Mar del Plata with 8m59s10, a record he later improved in Memphis (Tennessee, USA) with 8m53s89 on 29th July.

Phaedra Moonwho has been training since last season Spain, arrived 2nd. of that distance in the International Meeting of Catalonia, with the “challenger” category of the world athletics circuit and marked 4m.12s.95, which represents the new national and South American maximum over 1,500 meters. The Argentine record is the one that Florence had obtained on Wednesday with 4:17:94, while the South American record had been in force for more than three decades, managed by the legendary Surinamese middle distance runner (and 800m runner-up world champion), Letizia Vriesde. She clocked 4m14s05 on February 2, 1992 in Budapest. Fedra Luna placed second in the race won by Spain’s Agueda Muñoz with 4m11s38. The bronze medal corresponded to the three times Spanish champion Esther Guerrero with 4m13s05. Fedra Luna established herself last year with her gold double at the Odesur Games in Asunción, where she won the 1,500m and 5,000m flat, establishing herself as one of the great figures of the Argentine team who had a historic performance. In another of his successes that season, Luna took the all-time national record in the 1,500m flat course on an open track with 4m11s66, on June 16 in Castellón. She now she just made her participation in “indoor” tracks with all success.

For her part, Borelli cycles in recent seasons it’s just outstanding and makes her one of the best Argentine athletes in history.

On free track he currently holds the Argentine records of 3,000m (already mentioned with 8’53s89, it’s a South American record) and 5,000m (15’23s83 on June 3rd in Manchester).

On the indoor track, as soon as he made his debut, he established the national record of 1,500m in Valencia with 4’17”94 (now improved by Fedra) and the South American one of 3,000m.

On the road she is the holder of the Argentine records over all distances: 10 km. with 32m29, 15km. with 48m55s, 20km with 1h06m56s, half marathon with 1h09m31s, 25km. with 1h27m05s, 30km. with 1h44m25s and a marathon with 2h26m54s, the last three in Seville 2022. The half marathon finish also sets the South American record, being Florencia and Daiana Ocampo the first South Americans to break the 1 hour 10 minute barrier, which they reached on the last August 21 in Buenos Aires.

Along with this magnificent collection of records, it is necessary to highlight the great triumphs they have given the Argentine national team such as the South American title of the 5,000m dash in Lima 2019. And last year, the half marathon titles in the Ibero-American of Alicante and the South American of Buenos Aires, as well as the gold medal in the 10,000m dash at the Odesur Games in Asunción. Born on October 30, 1992 and mother of a boy, Milo is a true phenomenon of our athletics.