CAMACHO-QUINN CHALLENGES AT PARIS 2024

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CAMACHO-QUINN CHALLENGES AT PARIS 2024

May 13, 2024

One of the most difficult challenges in sports is to maintain the first place in a ranking, to repeat the achievement of a competition when it is a gold medal in the Olympic Games, and if you add to that an Olympic record (12.26), there is no way to feel anything but a lot of pressure, as well as facing your own challenges while having to measure yourself against the expectations around you as to what it will be like to defend the title achieved at the last Games.

This is the outlook for runner, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, who won the 100-meter hurdles final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, winning the second Olympic gold medal for Puerto Rico, where she achieved the Olympic record of 12.26 seconds, equaling the fifth fastest time in history.

The 27-year-old athlete, born in South Carolina (North Charleston, August 21, 1996), decided to defend the colors of Puerto Rico in honor of her mother, Maria Milagros Camacho, and her grandparents born on the island, where the latter reside, representing for her the pride of her origins. These Paris 2024 Games will be her third, of great responsibility in her sporting career, with the possibility of further consolidating her name in the history of the Games and world athletics.

🚨ALERTA DE RÉCORD CON DESTINO A PARIS 2024🚨

🇵🇷 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn gana su semifinal de los 100m vallas con tiempo de 12.60 segundos, estableciendo Récord de los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe y clasificación a #Paris2024.

👏 Felicitaciones @JCamachoQuinn 🇵🇷 pic.twitter.com/fFF9GxLoRA
— Centro Caribe Sports (@CentroCaribeS) July 5, 2023

Camacho-Quinn, in the XXIVCentral American and Caribbean Games held in San Salvador in 2023, set a Central American and Caribbean record. In that event, in the first qualifying race, the Puerto Rican timed 12.60 seconds, leaving behind the 12.64 that the Jamaican runner, Dionne Rose, set in the Games held in Maracaibo in 1998.

This mark was the ticket to Paris, since the minimum mark required to qualify is 12.77 seconds. In the end, these Games were not only a competition where the athlete fulfilled the Puerto Rican colors, but also a fundamental part of the Puerto Rican’s preparatory stage for Paris.

🚨CELÉBRALO BORICUA🚨@JCamachoQuinn logra nuevo Récord de los Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe en #sansalvador2023 en los 100m vallas, y el boleto a los Juegos Olímpicos de @paris2024.

🇵🇷¡Grande Jasmine 🫶👏!#paris2024 pic.twitter.com/sLunvZcwtS
— Centro Caribe Sports (@CentroCaribeS) July 5, 2023

After Tokyo, his sporting results have been promising. She won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships in Athletics in Eugene, Oregon. Just a few months after the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, Camacho-Quinn took silver at the World Championships in Athletics in Budapestampeonato Mundial de atletismo en Budapest.

El pasado 2023 fue a todas luces un año estupendo lleno de logros. Comenzando en mayo con la prueba de Liga Diamante en Doha, Catar, para cerrar la temporada con 14 victorias y dos segundos lugares en 16 carreras. Lo que sin duda la pone en la vanguardia del favoritismo para repetir en París y dejar la medalla de nuevo en la región Centroamericana y del Caribe.

Si buscamos hacer una comparación con el Ciclo Olímpico anterior, Camacho-Quinn llegó a la justa olímpica de Tokio en su mejor momento y plenitud de forma física, luego de ganar 12 de sus últimas 13 carreras, varias de las pruebas siendo en la prestigiosa Liga Diamante, entre otras competencias importantes.

Repasando rápidamente las posibles contrincantes de Jasmine Camacho Quinn, observamos que la puertorriqueña le lleva una ventaja a sus rivales más cercanas, Kendra Harrison medallista de plata en Tokio 2020 y bronce en Budapest, 2023 y la jamaiquina Danielle Williams, oro en Budapest y sexta en Portland, sumando en general tres medallas en campeonatos Mundiales de atletismo, entre 2015 y 2023.

Los reportes de World Athletics reflejan con datos muy claros todo lo señalado sobre Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: Oro Olímpico (Tokio 2020); Oro y plata en campeonatos mundiales. Un campeonato U23 de la NACAC y Oro en Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe. Además de esto, once veces ganadora de la Liga Diamante y tres veces campeona de la NCAA.

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