Ximena Restrepo Gaviria (born March 10, 1969, in Medellín) is a former Colombian nationalized Chilean sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres.
With the time of 49.64 seconds she won a bronze medal in 400 metres at the 1992 Olympic Games, Colombia's first athletics medal. This result is still a South American record, as is the case with her 200 metres time of 22.92 seconds, which she achieved in 1991. At the 1991 Pan American Games she won silver medals in 200 and 400 metres.
Restrepo is married to Chilean shot putter Gert Weil. She attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she won the 1991 NCAA Championship in the 400 metres.http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=3752848 Nebraska Cornhuskers Martina Weil, daughter of Ximena and Gert, is a track and field athlete at the University of Tennessee after winning the 400 meters in the South American U23 championships and setting a Chilean national record in the event, and recently won a gold medal in the 400 meters in the 2023 Panamerican games.
Living now in Chile, she is the first female elected vice-president of the World Athletics, in Doha on 25 September 2019.
International competitions
Representing 1985Bolivarian GamesCuenca, Ecuador1st200 m24.93 A1st4 × 100 m relay47.89 A1st4 × 400 m relay3:58.22 A1986Pan American Junior ChampionshipsWinter Park, United States4th100 m11.98 (w)3rd200 m24.54World Junior ChampionshipsAthens, Greece20th (sf)100 m12.09 w (+2.5 m/s)16th (sf)200 m24.42 (-0.8 m/s)South American Junior ChampionshipsQuito, Ecuador2nd100 m12.101st200 m24.08Ibero-American ChampionshipsHavana, Cuba1st200 m23.76 w (+2.1 m/s)1987South American Junior ChampionshipsSantiago, Chile1st100 m11.691st200 m23.72South American ChampionshipsSão Paulo, Brazil2nd100 m11.771st200 m23.491988South American Junior ChampionshipsCubatão, Brazil2nd200 m24.38Ibero-American ChampionshipsMexico City, Mexico4th200 m23.46 (0.0 m/s) AWorld Junior ChampionshipsSudbury, Canada11th (sf)100 m11.83 (+0.5 m/s)10th (sf)200 m23.90 w (+2.1 m/s)1st (h)Disqualified in the semifinal.400 m53.48Olympic GamesSeoul, South Korea34th (h)200 m24.0016th (h)4 × 100 m relay45.461 –4 × 400 m relayDQ1989South American ChampionshipsMedellín, Colombia2nd100 m11.41990Central American and Caribbean GamesMexico City, Mexico 2nd4 × 100 m relay45.291991South American ChampionshipsManaus, Brazil1st200 m23.21 2nd4 × 100 m relay45.00 2nd4 × 400 m relay3:36.56Pan American GamesHavana, Cuba2nd200 m23.162nd400 m50.144th4 × 100 m relay44.684th4 × 400 m relay3:31.39World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan6th400 m50.791992Ibero-American ChampionshipsSeville, Spain1st400 m51.663rd4 × 100 m relay45.54Olympic GamesBarcelona, Spain3rd400 m49.64World CupHavana, Cuba3rd4 × 400 m relay3:29.7321993World ChampionshipsStuttgart, Germany5th400 m50.91Central American and Caribbean GamesPonce, Puerto Rico3rd200 m23.882nd4 × 100 m relay44.621994Ibero-American ChampionshipsMar del Plata, Argentina1st200 m23.07 w (+4.4 m/s)1st400 m52.691st4 × 100 m relay44.871st4 × 400 m relay3:35.35South American GamesValencia, Venezuela1st400 m51.311995Pan American GamesMar del Plata, Argentina1st (h)400 m52.65South American ChampionshipsManaus, Brazil1st400 m51.931st400 m hurdles57.421st4 × 400 m relay3:33.37World ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden17th (sf)400 m51.821996Ibero-American ChampionshipsMedellín, Colombia2nd400 m50.871st4 × 400 m relay3:33.69Olympic GamesAtlanta, United States –400 mDNF1998Ibero-American ChampionshipsLisbon, Portugal –4 × 100 m relayDNF2nd4 × 400 m relay3:33.692000Olympic GamesSydney, Australia16th (sf)4 × 100 m relay44.37 1Did not start in the semifinals 2Representing the Americas
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