Laura García-Caro Lorenzo (born 16 April 1995) is a female racewalker from Spain. She competed in the Women's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing the 32nd. She went viral during the 2024 European championship for starting to celebrate a bronze medal that she would lose in the last 5 metres of the race
Competition record Representing 2013European Junior ChampionshipsRieti, Italy5th10,000 m47:172014World Junior ChampionshipsEugene, United States4th10,000 m44:322015European Race Walking CupMurcia, Spain10th20 km1:29:32European U23 ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia5th20 km1:31:52World ChampionshipsBeijing, China32nd20 km1:36:222016Mediterranean U23 ChampionshipsRadès, Tunisia1st10,000 m44:552017European Race Walking CupPoděbrady, Czech Republic3rd20 km1:29:57European U23 ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland –20 kmDQWorld ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom9th20 km1:29:292018World Race Walking ChampionshipsTaicang, China14th20 km1:29:58European Athletics ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany6th20 km1:28:152019World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar33rd20 km1:44:052021Olympic GamesSapporo, Japan34th20 km1:37:482022World Race Walking ChampionshipsMuscat, Oman14th35 km2:52:10Ibero-American ChampionshipsLa Nucía, Spain1st10,000 m43:33.72World ChampionshipsEugene, United States6th35 km2:42:452024European ChampionshipsRome, Italy4th20 km1.28:48
See also Spain at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
References
External links
Laura García-Caro at RFEA (archived)
Laura Garcia-Caro at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)
Laura García-Caro – COE – Paris 2024