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Andrea Soraya Ramírez Limón (born 5 December 1992) is a Mexican marathon runner. She is part of the Mexican delegation at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Ramírez has a degree in international relations from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, having obtained it in 2015.

Career

While Ramírez was training as a hobby on the track at her college, one of her coaches encouraged her to officially compete. For a time, Ramírez ran various athletic events informally, until she requested the assistance of a professional marathoner, Jonathan Morales Serrano. Morales refused by telling her that he did not train women, which led Ramírez to ask him to let her convince him, a fact that happened after six months of practice. Morales trained her for two and a half years.

Ramírez's career grew when she ran a half marathon in Monterrey in November 2019, clocking a time of 1:12:44, a fact that allowed her to qualify to run the half marathon in Gdynia, Poland. In this competition, she clocked a time of 1:10:20. In the 2020 Houston Marathon she achieved a mark of 2:29:30; In December 2020 she improved the time, achieving the required mark to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, when she ran in The Marathon Project, a test that took place in Chandler, Arizona, United States, in a time of 2:26:34.

References

1. "Andrea Soraya Ramírez Limón". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
2. ^ CONADE (11 February 2021). "Dar marca olímpica ha sido parteaguas en mi vida: Andrea Ramírez". gob.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-05-28.
3. ^ Benton, Emilia (2021-02-11). "Andrea Ramírez Limón Was Told to Move on From Running. Now She's One of Mexico's Fastest Marathoners". Runner's World. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
4. Rubén Romero (26 December 2020). "Futuro promisorio". Reforma). Retrieved 2021-05-29.

External links

• Andrea Ramírez Limón at World Athletics

• 1992 births
• Living people
• Mexican female marathon runners
• Mexican female long-distance runners
• Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• People from Chimalhuacán
• Sportspeople from the State of Mexico
• Olympic athletes for Mexico
• 21st-century Mexican women