Glenda Morejón
Glenda Morejón, 26 July 2017
Personal information
NationalityEcuador
Born (2000-05-30) 30 May 2000
Guayaquil
Sport
SportWomen's athletics
Medal record
Representing  Ecuador
Women's athletics
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place2023 Santiago20 km walk

Glenda Estefania Morejón Quiñónez (born 30 May 2000) is an Ecuadorian racewalker.[1] On 27 July 2017, she won the 5000m category of the IAAF World U18 Championships, becoming the second female Ecuadorian athlete to do so.

Biography

Glenda Morejón was born on 30 May 2000 in Ibarra, Ecuador. She was educated in Ibarra at the Tarquino Jaramillo School.[2]

Glenda Morejón comes from a family of medium-low social status, her father Luis Morejón is a professional, in addition to helping with domestic chores, her mother María del Carmen Quiñónez works in the 24 de Mayo market in the city of Otavalo and her sister María Belén, who follows in her footsteps is a walker. At the age of thirteen Glenda began to practice in the field of Olympic walks, along with the help of her coach Giovan Delgado a Guayaquil graduated in Physical Culture who works in the Educational Unit Ibarra and who lives in Ibarra since 1988, which also founded the Tarquino Jaramillo Athletic School in 2001, where Glenda trains along with 24 other athletes.[3]

With respect to her university education, the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL) has awarded Glenda a sports scholarship that covers 70% of her first cycle tuition and will cover 90% of the total cost of tuition in all cycles of her Business Administration career in open and distance modality.[4]

She won the IAAF World U18 Championships in the 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) category on 15 July 2017 at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, in the face of doubts of her ability because of inexperience and young age. She won with a time of 22:32:30, ahead of athletes Meryem Bekmez (Turkey) and Elvira Khasanova (Russia).[5][6] Morejón is the second Ecuador athlete to win in the World Under 18 Champions, the first of which being Maribel Caicedo in 2015.[7]

Despite her record of winning acclaim for Latin America, Morejón has had difficulty securing funding for her training or equipment. She trained with patched and holed shoes, drank tap water, and used aguapanela as an energizer. Despite a local campaign by Morejón's management, she had to go alone to Nairobi and with basic equipment. Ecuador's Ministry of Sport has denied funding for Morejón despite international protest.[5][8]

In May the 5th, 2018 she won the silver medal in the World Championship held in Taicang, China.[9]

Tokyo 2020

Although she has won four international contests, she was as considered a substitute athlete for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. However, in 2019, Glenda Morejón was promoted to the High Performance Plan, the Olympic competitor program from the Sport Secretary in Ecuador.

Currently, Morojón is training for the next Olympic games along with other Ecuadorian athletes, such as Alex Quiñonez, Neisi Dajomes, etc.[10]

Sport career

Personal Records[11]
Discipline Performance Location Date Records Results Score
5000 Metres (Race Walk) 22:25.16 Cuenca (ECU) 26 AUG 2017 N/A 1045
5 kilometres (Race Walk) 21:16 Sucúa (ECU) 15 APR 2017 ABP, AJB 1127
10,000 Metres (Race Walk) 44:12.75 Trujillo (PER) 25 AUG 2018 AJB, NR 1115
10 Kilometres (Race Walk) 43:04 Sucúa (ECU) 09 MAR 2019 ABP, AJR 1156
20 Kilometres (Race Walk) 1:25.29 La Coruña (ESP) 09 JUN 2019 WJB, AR, AJB, NR 1218
World Rankings[12]
Current World Ranking Positions
Women's 20 km (Race Walking) PLACE

23

 SCORE

1155

Women's Overall Ranking PLACE

1078

 SCORE

1155

Highest Ever World Ranking Positions
Women's 20 km (Race Walking) PLACE

23

 SCORE

for 3 weeks

Women's Overall Ranking PLACE

1078

 SCORE

for 1 week

References

  1. ↑ "Glenda Morejon: Athlete Profile". iaaf.org. International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "El telégrafo". Lágrimas en ojos de Glenda Morejón al recordar su triunfo. 10 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Glenda Morejón, una joven con voluntad inquebrantable". El Telégrafo. 26 November 2019.
  4. ↑ Carrera, Verónica (26 November 2019). "Glenda Morejón: una deportista fuera de serie Compartir".
  5. 1 2 "Los raídos zapatos de Glenda Morejón". El Universo (in Spanish). 30 July 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Report: girls' 5000m race walk - IAAF World Championships U18 Nairobi 2017". iaaf.org. International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "No longer an unknown, Caicedo looks to the future". iaaf.org. International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Ecuador, el país de los campeones con zapatos parchados". El Comercio (in Spanish). 19 July 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Glenda Morejón y Paula Torres logran plata para Ecuador en el campeonato mundial de marcha". El Universo (in Spanish). 6 May 2018. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  10. ↑ "La marchista Glenda Morejón subió cinco categorías en el alto rendimiento; ahora recibirá USD 2 758 mensuales". El Comercio. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  11. ↑ "Glenda MOREJÓN | Profile". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2019-11-25.
  12. ↑ "Glenda MOREJÓN | Profile". www.worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2019-11-26.
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