Inés López
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| Born | 19 August 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 58.20 m (Bergen, 2025) NU23R Shot put 16.04 m (Lubbock, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Inés López Arias (born 19 August 2003) is a Spanish discus thrower and shot putter. She became Spanish national champion in the discus throw in 2024 and won the discus throw at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships.[1]
Career
[edit]In May 2024, she improved her personal best for the discus throw by four metres, throwing 57.43 metres in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The mark would have set a new Spanish under-23 record, but almost simultaneously her compatriot Nneka Naomey Ezenwa had thrown a few inches further in competition in Spain.[2] She later improved her personal best to 55.77 metres to move to seventh on the Spanish all-time list and subsequently won the senior Spanish Athletics Championships in La Nucia, Alicante in June 2024.[3][4]
At the 2025 European Throwing Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus she improved her Spanish under-23 record by 16 centimetres, throwing 55.93 metres. At the same championships, she finished foutth in the U23 shot put with a best attempt of 15.72m.[5] Competing for Arizona State University she qualified for the 2025 NCAA Championships.[6] She competed for Spain at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid in June 2025.[7]
She won the gold medal for Spain competing at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway, throwing a national under-23 record of 58.20 metres, having also been the leading qualifier with a distance of 56.35m.[8][9][10] She also placed eighth in the shot put final at the championships.[11]
Personal life
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ines Lopez". World Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Two athletes break the same Spanish record at the same time, almost 7,000 kilometers apart". Runnersworld. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Álvaro Martín marks his territory on the march and young Inés López kicks down the door on the disc in La Nucía". Runnerworld. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "Inés López sorprende a June Kintana y se estrena como campeona de España de disco". Mundo Deportivo. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ a b "Inés López breaks the Spanish U-23 discus throw record, and Spain wins four medals in Nicosia". Runnersworld. 17 March 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ Wiley, Ben (June 10, 2025). "'I am the best': ASU's Jayden Davis, Ines Lopez Arias seek dominant NCAA track and field championships". Cronkite News. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "The Netherlands Dominates European Team Championships After Record-Breaking Day 2". Madridetch2025. June 27, 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "World and European indoor champion Vanninen opens heptathlon in top form". European Athletics. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (20 Jul 2025). "Iosif Kesidis wins hammer gold for Cyprus and Lopez wins discus for Spain". European Athletics. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics U23 Championships". World Athletics. 18 July 2025. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
European Athletics U23 Championships champions in women's discus throw | |
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