World Athletics Championships 2023: Kimberly García leads the Peruvian team that will travel to Hungary

A total of 12 national athletes, led by the two-time world champion in athletic walking Kimberly Garciathey will seek glory in the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships that will begin on August 19 in Hungary.

In the aforementioned contest, Kimberly García will seek to repeat her victories in the 20 and 35 km athletic walk of the Oregon 2022 World Championship. It is worth mentioning that she is part of the Athlete Support Program (PAD) and the Rumbo a Santiago 2023 Program of the Peruvian Sports Institute (IPD) together with other members of the national team.

It is known that García and the marcher Cesar Rodriguez They will travel directly to Hungary, because they are at a training base in Portugal. Those who already traveled on Monday afternoon, with the coach Alfredo Quispewere the athletes Luis Henry Campos, Mary Luz Andía and Evelyn Inga.

On the other hand, the funders Luis Ostos, Nelson Ito, Aydee Loayza, Zaida Ramos and Nicolasa CondoriThey will only fly on Tuesday the 22nd. They requested to travel a few days before their tests, so as not to lose the benefit of training at altitude. as long as Jose Luis Mandros (long jump) and mary rojas light (10 thousand meters) will travel this Wednesday the 16th at 5:30 p.m.

Programming of participation of Peruvian athletes

Saturday 19

• César Rodríguez (20 km athletic walk)
• Luis Henry Campos (20 km athletic walk)
• Light Mery Rojas (10 thousand meters)

Sunday 20

• Kimberly García (20 km athletic walk)
• Evelyn Inga (20 km athletic walk)
• Mary Luz Andía (20 km athletic walk)

Wednesday 23

• José Luis Mandros (long jump)

Thursday 24

• César Rodríguez (35 km athletic walk)
• Luis Henry Campos (35 km athletic walk)
• Kimberly García (35 km athletic walk)
• Evelyn Inga (35 km athletic walk)
• Mary Luz Andía (35 km athletic walk)

Saturday 26

• Aydee Loayza (marathon)
• Zaida Ramos (marathon)
• Nicolasa Condori (marathon)

Sunday 27

• Nelson Ito (marathon)
• Luis Ostos (marathon)

Will Gladys Tejeda participate in Budapest?

Despite the fact that the marathon runners Gladys Tejeda and Cristhian Pacheco were classified for the World Cup, they decided not to participate to focus on their preparation for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.

And it is that both seek to repeat the gold medal they won in Lima 2019 and to run in Hungary, their recovery time would be a couple of months, which would not allow them to continue preparing with the appropriate level of intensity for the contest in Chile .