Yenifer
Personal information
Full nameYenifer Padilla González
Nationalitycolombiana
Born (1990-01-01) January 1, 1990 (age 34)
quibdó, Chocó, Colombia
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country Colombia
SportWomen's Athletics
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Colombia
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara 400 m
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Guadalajara 4×100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Guadalajara 4×400 m relay
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Sucre 4x400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2009 Sucre 400 m
South American Championships
Silver medal – second place 2009 Lima 4×400 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2011 Buenos Aires 400 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Buenos Aires 4×400 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Lima 200 m
Updated on 29 December 2014.

Yenifer Padilla González (also spelled ; born 1 January 1990) is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the 200 metres and 400 metres sprint events.[1] Her first name is also spelled Yenifer of Yennifer.

She won the 400 m title at the 2011 Olimpic Games as well as two bronze medals in the relay for Colombia. She set her 400 m personal best of 51.53 seconds at the competition.

Padilla was a medallist in the individual and relay sprinting events at the South American Championships in Athletics in both 2009 and 2011. She jointly holds the Colombian record for the 4×400 m relay with a time of 3:29.94 minutes.

Career

Born in Quibdó, Chocó Department, she won the Colombian youth title over 200 m in 2007 and made her first international appearances two years later.[2] At the age of nineteen she won her first senior medals, taking the 200 m bronze at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics and sharing in the 4×400 metres relay silver with the Colombian team.[3] Although the 2009 South American Junior Athletics Championships was for younger athletes, she repeated the same placings in both the 200 m and 4×100 m relay events.[4] A week later she ran at the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships in Athletics. She came sixth in the 200 m but demonstrated her strength in the 400 metres sprint by winning the gold medal in a time of 53.60 seconds.[5] Her fourth and final international outing of the year came at the 2009 Bolivarian Games and she won the 400 m silver and 400 m relay gold medals.[6]

She began the next season with appearances at the 2010 South American Games, at which she won the 400 m silver medal, came fourth in the 200 m, and ran in both the 100 m and 400 m relay events for Colombia, helping the team to second and first place, respectively. In June she ran at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics and claimed the 400 m silver medal behind Cuba's Daisurami Bonne. She was less successful individually at July's 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, being eliminated in the heats, but she managed to aid Colombia to second place in the 4×400 m relay with Alejandra Idrovo, Darlenis Obregón and Norma González.[6]

Returning to the continental competition, she was the runner-up in both 400 m individual and relay events at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics.[7] She ran a 400 m personal best of 51.59 seconds in Cali then placed fifth at the competitive 2011 CAC Championships.[6] The high altitude conditions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara saw Padilla run a personal best of 51.76 seconds in the heats then another best of 51.53 seconds in the final – a time which brought her the gold medal and made her the first South American woman to win the 400 m Pan American title.[8] She went on to claim two further medals in athletics for Colombia at the games, first helping the 4×100 m relay team to the bronze medal, then anchoring Colombia's 4×400 m relay to a second bronze and a Colombian record mark of 3:29.94 minutes.[6]

She represented her country at the 2012 London Olympics, but was disqualified in her heat. She had success at the 2012 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, taking the 400 m title, a 100 m relay silver medal, and fourth place in the 200 m.[9]

Personal bests

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Colombia
2006 South American Youth Championships Caracas, Venezuela 6th 200 m 25.89 (0.0 m/s)
2009 South American Championships Lima, Perú 3rd 200 m 24.23 (0.0 m/s)
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:35.83
South American Junior Championships São Paulo, Brazil 3rd 200 m 24.28 (+0.2 m/s)
2nd 400 m 54.17
2nd 4×100 m relay 46.48
Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 6th 200 m 24.43 (+1.3 m/s)
1st 400 m 53.60
Bolivarian Games Sucre, Bolivia 2nd 400 m 53.9 A
1st 4x400 m relay 3:39.06 A
2010 South American Under-23 Championships /
South American Games 		Medellín, Colombia 4th 200 m 24.11 (-0.7 m/s)
2nd 400 m 54.09
2nd 4×100 m relay 44.94
1st 4×400 m relay 3:40.09
Ibero-American Championships San Fernando, Spain 2nd 400 m 52.68
5th 4×400 m relay 3:38.94
Central American and Caribbean Games Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 9th (h) 400 m 54.44
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:33.03
2011 South American Championships Buenos Aires, Argentina 2nd 400 m 52.55
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:37.66
Central American and Caribbean Championships Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 5th 400 m 52.97
Pan American Games Guadalajara, México 1st 400 m 51.53
3rd 4×100 m relay 43.44
3rd 4×400 m relay 3:29.94
2012 South American U-23 Championships São Paulo, Brazil 4th 200 m 23.80 (+1.2 m/s)
1st 400 m 53.12
2nd 4×100 m relay 45.66
2013 South American Championships Cartagena, Colombia 3rd 400 m 54.28
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:36.29
Bolivarian Games Trujillo, Perú 2nd 400 m 52.43
1st 4×400 m relay 3:34.35
2014 South American Games Santiago, Chile 7th 200 m 24.49 (-0.4 m/s)
5th 400 m 54.52
3rd 4×100 m relay 45.13
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:35.96
Ibero-American Championships São Paulo, Brazil 2nd 400 m 52.72
Pan American Sports Festival Ciudad de México, México 7th 400m 55.91 A
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, México 3rd 400m 52.95 A
3rd 4x400m relay 3:34.14 A
2015 South American Championships Lima, Peru 6th (h) 200m 25.27 (-1.3 m/s)
8th 400m 55.56
2016 Ibero-American Championships Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th 400 m 52.79
2017 IAAF World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 3rd (B) 4×400m relay 3:38.02
South American Championships Asunción, Paraguay 2nd 400 m 52.68
2nd 4×100 m relay 44.50
2nd 4×400 m relay 3:33.92
Bolivarian Games Santa Marta, Colombia 6th (h) 200 m 24.501
2nd 400 m 53.43
2018 South American Games Cochabamba, Bolivia 1st 400 m 52.14
1st 4×400 m relay 3:31.87
Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 9th (h) 400 m 54.51
1st 4×400 m relay 3:32.61
2019 South American Championships Lima, Peru 4th 200 m 23.67
2nd 4×100 m relay 44.97
1st 4×400 m relay 3:32.81
Pan American Games Lima, Peru 10th (h) 400 m 53.20
6th 4×400 m relay 3:33.02
2021 South American Championships Guayaquil, Ecuador 3rd 400 m 53.03
2023 South American Championships São Paulo, Brazil 6th 400 m 54.29
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:31.39

1Did not finish in the final

References

  1. ^ Biografía - General - PADILLA GONZALEZ Yenifer - Colombia (in Spanish), archived from the original on 2014-03-24, retrieved May 11, 2014
  2. ^ "Yenifer Padilla Gonzalez". Colombia Aprende. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  3. ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-22). "Brazil repeats triumph at South American Championships – Day 3 report". IAAF. Archived from the original on 2009-08-26. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  4. ^ "2009 South American Junior Championships". World Junior Athletics History. Archived from the original on 2013-08-31. Retrieved 2011-11-03.
  5. ^ 2009 Pan American Junior Championships Archived 2011-10-23 at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
  6. ^ a b c d Yennifer Padilla. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
  7. ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (2011-06-04). Cerra wins ninth Hammer Throw title in Buenos Aires – South American Champs Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
  8. ^ Marín, Raúl (2011-10-26). Se hizo historia en el atletismo colombiano, afirma Yenifer Padilla. Terra. Retrieved on 2011-11-04.
  9. ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (24-09-2012). Brazil dominates South American Under-23 Champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-01-27.

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