Esperança Cladera
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| Full name | Esperança Cladera Gil | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 May 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 100m 11.61 (Barcelona, 2025) 200m: 23.17 (La Nucia, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Esperança Cladera Gil (born 14 May 2002) is a Spanish sprinter. In 2025, she won the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships over 200 metres. She was a member of the Spanish 4 x 100 metres relay team which set new Spanish national records whilst running at the 2025 World Athletics Relays and the 2025 European Team Championships.[1]
Career
From Mallorca, she finished in fifth place in the 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Gyor, Hungary.[2]
By 2024, she had become a member of Valencia Club Atletismo.[3] She made her senior championship debut when she competed for Spain at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, reaching the semi-finals of the 200 metres.[4][5]
In February 2025, she won the 200 metres at the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships.[6] She was selected for the Spanish relay pool for the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China.[7] In the 4 x 100 metres relay she was part of a team alongside Jaël Bestué, Paula Sevilla, and Maria Isabel Perez who won their opening race ahead of Jamaica containing Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson, with a time of 42.18 seconds, setting a Spanish national record, and ensuring qualification for the 2025 World Championships.[8] She was part of the Spanish 4 x 100 metres team, again alongside Bestué, Sevilla and Maribel Pérez, which set another new Spanish record of 42.11 seconds at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 28 June.[9]
References
- ^ "Esperança Cladera". World Athletics. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Esperança Cladera, getting closer and closer to the best sprinters in Spain". ib3.org. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Valencia wants more and more in the Iberdrola Cup". atletismorfea.es. 8 Feb 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Bittersweet morning in Rome". atletismorfea.es. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "There is no bad fifth". atletismorfea.es. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Spanish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 21 Feb 2025. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Las 26 bazas de #EspañaAtletismo para los World Athletics Relays". Atletismorfea.es. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ Shakeel, Maleehah (10 May 2025). "Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson Left Stunned as Jamaica Suffers Major Upset Against Surprising Opponents". Essentially Sports. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (28 Jun 2025). "Double Dutch! The Netherlands win men's and women's 4x100m races with national records". Eurorpean Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.