Jennifer Padilla

{{Short description|Colombian sprinter (born 1990)}} {{Infobox sportsperson | headercolor = lightblue | name = Jennifer Padilla | image = | caption = | fullname = Jenifer Padilla González | nationality = Colombian | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|1|1|df=y}} | birth_place = Quibdó, Chocó, Colombia | height = 1.85m | weight = 66kg | country = {{COL}} | sport = Athletics | event = {{ubl|200 metres|400 metres|4×100 metres|4×400 metres|Mixed relay}} | club = | team = | turnedpro = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = | updated = 17 May 2024 | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{COL}}}} {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalGold|2011 Guadalajara|400 m}} {{MedalBronze|2011 Guadalajara|4×100 m relay}} {{MedalBronze|2011 Guadalajara|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalCompetition|Ibero-American Championships}} {{MedalSilver|2024 Cuiabá|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalCompetition|Central American and Caribbean Games}} {{MedalBronze|2014 Veracruz|400 m}} {{MedalBronze|2014 Veracruz|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalBronze|2018 Barranquilla|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalCompetition|South American Championships}} {{MedalGold|2023 São Paulo|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalSilver|2009 Lima|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalSilver|2011 Buenos Aires|400 m}} {{MedalSilver|2011 Buenos Aires|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalBronze|2009 Lima|200 m}} {{MedalCompetition|Bolivarian Games}} {{MedalGold|2009 Sucre|4×400 m relay}} {{MedalSilver|2009 Sucre|400 m}} | show-medals = }} {{family name hatnote|Padilla|González|lang=Spanish}} '''Jennifer Padilla''' González (also spelled; born 1 January 1990) is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the 200 metres and 400 metres sprint events. Her first name is also spelled Yenifer of Yennifer.

She won the 400 m title at the 2011 Pan American Games as well as two bronze medals in the relay for Colombia. She set her 400 m personal best of 51.53 seconds at the competition.

Padilla was a medallist in the individual and relay sprinting events at the South American Championships in Athletics in both 2009 and 2011. She jointly holds the national records for the 4×400 metres with a time of 3:29.94 minutes.

==Career== Born in Quibdó, Chocó Department, she won the Colombian youth title over 200 m in 2007 and made her first international appearances two years later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/html/home/1592/article-227650.html |title=Yenifer Padilla Gonzalez |work=Colombia Aprende |access-date=2011-11-03 |archive-date=2012-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407055812/http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/html/home/1592/article-227650.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> At the age of nineteen she won her first senior medals, taking the 200 m bronze at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics and sharing in the 4×400 metres silver with the Colombian team.<ref>{{cite web |last=Biscayart |first=Eduardo |date=2009-06-22 |url=http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind=100/newsid=51265.html |title=Brazil repeats triumph at South American Championships – Day 3 report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826030124/http://berlin.iaaf.org/news/kind%3D100/newsid%3D51265.html |archive-date=2009-08-26 |publisher=World Athletics |access-date=2011-11-03}}</ref> Although the 2009 South American Junior Athletics Championships was for younger athletes, she repeated the same placings in both the 200 m and 4×100 m relay events.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/SAJC/SAJC2009.html |title=2009 South American Junior Championships |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831124049/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/SAJC/SAJC2009.html |archive-date=2013-08-31 |work=World Junior Athletics History |access-date=2011-11-03}}</ref> A week later she ran at the 2009 Pan American Junior Championships in Athletics. She came sixth in the 200 m but demonstrated her strength in the 400 metres sprint by winning the gold medal in a time of 53.60 seconds.<ref>[http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/PAJC/PAJC2009.html 2009 Pan American Junior Championships] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023134058/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/PAJC/PAJC2009.html |date=2011-10-23 }}. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.</ref> Her fourth and final international outing of the year came at the 2009 Bolivarian Games and she won the 400 m silver and 400 m relay gold medals.<ref name=Tilas>[http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atw.php?ID=56613&Season=2009&Odd=0 Yennifer Padilla]. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.</ref>

She began the next season with appearances at the 2010 South American Games, at which she won the 400 m silver medal, came fourth in the 200 m, and ran in both the 100 m and 400 m relay events for Colombia, helping the team to second and first place, respectively. In June she ran at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics and claimed the 400 m silver medal behind Cuba's Daisurami Bonne. She was less successful individually at July's 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, being eliminated in the heats, but she managed to aid Colombia to second place in the 4×400 m relay with Alejandra Idrovo, Darlenis Obregón and Norma González.<ref name=Tilas/>

Returning to the continental competition, she was the runner-up in both 400 m individual and relay events at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics.<ref>Biscayart, Eduardo (2011-06-04). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=60225.html Cerra wins ninth Hammer Throw title in Buenos Aires – South American Champs Day 2]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.</ref> She ran a 400 m personal best of 51.59 seconds in Cali then placed fifth at the competitive 2011 CAC Championships.<ref name=Tilas/> The high altitude conditions at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara saw Padilla run a personal best of 51.76 seconds in the heats then another best of 51.53 seconds in the final – a time which brought her the gold medal and made her the first South American woman to win the 400 m Pan American title.<ref>Marín, Raúl (2011-10-26). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607220348/http://deportesus.terra.com/rumbo-a-2012/guadalajara-2011/noticias/0,,OI5437899-EI17736,00-Se+hizo+historia+en+el+atletismo+colombiano+afirma+Yenifer+Padilla.html Se hizo historia en el atletismo colombiano, afirma Yenifer Padilla]. ''Terra''. Retrieved on 2011-11-04.</ref> She went on to claim two further medals in athletics for Colombia at the games, first helping the 4×100 m relay team to the bronze medal, then anchoring Colombia's 4×400 m relay to a second bronze and a Colombian record mark of 3:29.94 minutes.<ref name=Tilas/>

She represented her country at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but was disqualified in her heat. She had success at the 2012 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics, taking the 400 m title, a 100 m relay silver medal, and fourth place in the 200 m.<ref>Biscayart, Eduardo (24-09-2012). [http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/brazil-dominates-south-american-under-23-cham Brazil dominates South American Under-23 Champs]. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-01-27.</ref>

==Personal bests== *100 m: '''11.70''' '''A''' (wind: NWI) – Medellín, Colombia, 5 March 2010 *200 m: '''23.32''' (wind: +0.1 m/s) – Cali, Colombia, November 2015 *400 m: '''51.53''' – Guadalajara, Mexico, 26 October 2011

==International competitions== {|{{AchievementTable|Event=yes|width=80%}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{COL}} |- |2006 |South American Youth Championships |Caracas, Venezuela |6th |200 m |25.89 (0.0 m/s) |- |rowspan = "9"|2009 |rowspan=2|South American Championships |rowspan=2|Lima, Peru |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |200 m |24.23 (0.0 m/s) |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:35.83 |- |rowspan=3|South American Junior Championships |rowspan=3|São Paulo, Brazil |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |200 m |24.28 (+0.2 m/s) |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |54.17 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100 m relay |46.48 |- |rowspan=2|Pan American Junior Championships |rowspan=2|Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |6th |200 m |24.43 (+1.3 m/s) |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |400 m |53.60 |- |rowspan = "2"|Bolivarian Games |rowspan = "2"|Sucre, Bolivia |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |53.9 '''A''' |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:39.06 '''A''' |- |rowspan=8|2010 |rowspan=4|South American Under-23 Championships / South American Games |rowspan=4|Medellín, Colombia |4th |200 m |24.11 (-0.7 m/s) |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |54.09 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100 m relay |44.94 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:40.09 |- |rowspan=2|Ibero-American Championships |rowspan=2|San Fernando, Spain |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.68 |- |5th |4 × 400 m relay |3:38.94 |- |rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Games |rowspan=2|Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |9th (h) |400 m |54.44 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:33.03 |- |rowspan=6|2011 |rowspan=2|South American Championships |rowspan=2|Buenos Aires, Argentina |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.55 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:37.66 |- |Central American and Caribbean Championships |Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |5th |400 m |52.97 |- |rowspan=3|Pan American Games |rowspan=3|Guadalajara, Mexico |bgcolor=gold|1st |400 m |51.53 |- |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |4 × 100 m relay |43.44 |- |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |4 × 400 m relay |3:29.94 |- |rowspan=3|2012 |rowspan=3|South American U-23 Championships |rowspan=3|São Paulo, Brazil |4th |200 m |23.80 (+1.2 m/s) |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |400 m |53.12 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100 m relay |45.66 |- |rowspan=4|2013 |rowspan=2|South American Championships |rowspan=2|Cartagena, Colombia |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |400 m |54.28 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:36.29 |- |rowspan=2|Bolivarian Games |rowspan=2|Trujillo, Peru |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.43 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:34.35 |- |rowspan=8|2014 |rowspan=4|South American Games |rowspan=4|Santiago, Chile |7th |200 m |24.49 (-0.4 m/s) |- |5th |400 m |54.52 |- |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |4 × 100 m relay |45.13 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:35.96 |- |Ibero-American Championships |São Paulo, Brazil |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.72 |- |Pan American Sports Festival |Mexico City, Mexico |7th |400 m |55.91 '''A''' |- |rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Games |rowspan=2|Xalapa, Mexico |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |400 m |52.95 '''A''' |- |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |4 × 400m relay |3:34.14 '''A''' |- |rowspan=2|2015 |rowspan=2|South American Championships |rowspan=2|Lima, Peru |6th (h) |200 m |25.27 (-1.3 m/s) |- |8th |400 m |55.56 |- |2016 |Ibero-American Championships |Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |4th |400 m |52.79 |- |rowspan=6|2017 |World Relays |Nassau, Bahamas |3rd (B) |4 × 400m relay |3:38.02 |- |rowspan=3|South American Championships |rowspan=3|Asunción, Paraguay |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |52.68 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100 m relay |44.50 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:33.92 |- |rowspan=2|Bolivarian Games |rowspan=2|Santa Marta, Colombia |6th (h) |200 m |24.501 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |400 m |53.43 |- |rowspan=4|2018 |rowspan=2|South American Games |rowspan=2|Cochabamba, Bolivia |bgcolor=gold|1st |400 m |52.14 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:31.87 |- |rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Games |rowspan=2|Barranquilla, Colombia |9th (h) |400 m |54.51 |- |bgcolor="cc9966"|3rd |4 × 400 m relay |3:32.61 |- |rowspan=5|2019 |rowspan=3|South American Championships |rowspan=3|Lima, Peru |4th |200 m |23.67 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100 m relay |44.97 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:32.81 |- |rowspan=2|Pan American Games |rowspan=2|Lima, Peru |10th (h) |400 m |53.20 |- |6th |4 × 400 m relay |3:33.02 |- |2021 |South American Championships |Guayaquil, Ecuador |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |400 m |53.03 |- |rowspan=2|2023 |rowspan=2|South American Championships |rowspan=2|São Paulo, Brazil |6th |400 m |54.29 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 400 m relay |3:31.39 |- |rowspan=2|2024 |World Relays |Nassau, Bahamas |19th (r) |Mixed relay |3:21.29 |- |Ibero-American Championships |Cuiabá, Brazil |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 400 m relay |3:33.20 |} 1Did not finish in the final

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==External links== * {{World Athletics}} * {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/yennifer-padilla-1.html |title=Yennifer Padilla |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513011152/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/yennifer-padilla-1.html |archive-date=2014-05-13 |url-status=dead}}

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