Sonia Molina-Prados

Sonia Molina-Prados
Molina-Prados 2022 in Munich
Personal information
NationalitySpanish
Born (1993-07-14) 14 July 1993 (age 31)
Manzanares, Ciudad Real, Spain
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
SportTrack and Field
Event(s)100m, 200m

Sonia Molina-Prados (born 14 July 1993) is a Spanish track and field athlete who competes in 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay races.

Career

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Molina-Prados moved from Ciudad Real in Castilla–La Mancha to train in Granada with Manola Jiménez in 2019 and she credits this move with an uplift in her performances, even though the move was hampered and disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she lowered her personal best times in both the 100m (11.31) and 200m (23.40). The 100m personal best came at the 2022 Spanish national athletics championships in which she would finish runner-up to Jaël Bestué.[1]

Molina-Prados was part of the Spanish 4 x 100m team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, breaking the Spanish national record. The team had initially broken the national record running 42.61 in the qualifying heats to qualify for the final.[2] In the final the following day they lowered the national record again, to 42.58 seconds.[3]

Molina-Prados was announced as part of the Spanish 4x100m relay team for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich.[4] She also competed individually in the 100m in Munich but did not progress past the heats running 11.64 seconds.[5]

She ran as part of the Spanish 4x100m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[6] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[7]

She was officially selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics in July 2024.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Sonia Molina-Prados, ante un Europeo para competir y disfrutar". lanzadigital.clm.
  2. ^ "Women's 4x100 enters final with Spanish record". nationalworldnews.com.
  3. ^ "Éxito internacional de las atletas Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla". ondacero.com.
  4. ^ "Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla en los Europeos de Atletismo". ondacero.es.
  5. ^ "Sonia Molina-Prados se queda a las puertas de las semifinales del Europeo". lanzadigital.com.
  6. ^ "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
  7. ^ "#EspañaAtletismo Road to Roma: Preselección definitiva". Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  8. ^ "Spain's list for athletics at the Paris Olympics". sport.es. 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
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