Arantxa King

Arantxa King

Personal information
Born November 27, 1989
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Country  Bermuda
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Long Jump
Updated on 21 July 2012.

Arantxa King (born 27 November 1989 in Paget Parish[1]) is a Bermudian athlete competing in the long jump. Her mother, Branwen Smith-King, is a former Bermuda long jump champion. Her father Adrian King is a track coach, and her sister Akilah is an accomplished triple jumper.

Arantxa competed at the 4th IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2005. With a best jump of 6.39 m, she won the World Youth title in women's Long Jump. She competed at the 11th IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, in 2006 and the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2008. In 2008, she also competed at the XXIX Summer Olympics in Beijing on Bermuda's behalf, and in 2006, she also competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She has competed at the XXX Olympic Games in London, England, in 2012, and at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in 2013.

Internationally, Arantxa has won a silver medal in Long Jump at the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Senior Track and Field Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Arantxa has competed on behalf of Stanford University. She was an NCAA runner-up in 2010 and an All-American twice.[2] She completed a degree in Political Science in 2011.

She holds the Bermuda National Record for the women's Long Jump indoors, 6.42 m.

EVENT PERFORMANCE PLACE, DATE
100 Metres 12.13 (+0.4 m/s) Mexico City, Mexico, 25 June 2004
Long Jump 6.50 m (+2.0 m/s) Austin, Texas, USA, 31 March 2012
Triple Jump 12.88 m (+1.5 m/s) Palo Alto, California, USA, 18 April 2009


References

  1. ↑ 2014 CWG profile
  2. ↑ "Arantxa King Biography". GoStanford.com. Retrieved 23 December 2014.