Mónica Falcioni

Mónica Jacqueline Costa Falcioni ( born October 10, 1968) is a former Uruguayan athlete.

Career

The 1.67 meter long and triple jumper that brought a competition weight of 64 kilos, was in 1996 appointed to the athlete of the year after their own, lying at that time at 6.06 meters Uruguayan national record in that year long jump was set at the event in Mar del Plata, as well as those in the triple jump with 13.10 meters. The following year she improved her long jump record again to 6.13 meters and won a bronze medal at the South American Championships. In the South America Play 1998 she took with a width of 6.47 meters, the gold medal in the long jump and triple jump in the competition, she placed with 13.55 meters on the silver medal. In 1999, she first took part in the Pan American Games. In that year they improved on May 8, 1999 their national triple jump record to 13.59 meters, increasing its longest jump in the long jump on 26 June of that year at the South Championships in Bogota to 6.52 meters. This brand should ultimately personal best at the end of their careers endure. The coached at the time by Oscar Gadea Falcioni took part with the Uruguayan contingent of the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. There she worked as a flag bearer of Uruguay and finished third in the long jump competition with a width of 6.05 meters, achieved the 33rd place in the qualifying round and thus missed the final. 2000 also marks the winning the bronze medal in the triple jump at the Ibero-American Track and Field Championships should be recorded for Falcioni. In 2002, she was Uruguayan champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay and shot put. In March 2003, Falcioni was part of the Uruguayan Ministry of Sport at an event in honor of all Uruguayan champion of 2002, honored as champion in both the long jump, triple jump, and in the 4 x 100 meters relay. At the Pan American Games in 2003 she was again on the Uruguayan team. In the same year she won at the IAAF Championships South America in Barquisimeto 5th place in the triple jump.

Achievements

  • 2000:
  • 2001:
  • 2002:
  • Personal Best: 6.52 meters (long jump )
Uruguay at the 1999 Pan American Games Uruguay at the 2000 Summer Olympics Uruguay at the 2003 Pan American Games El Observador (Uruguay)
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