{{Short description|Colombian sprinter (born 1970)}} {{Infobox athlete | headercolor = | name = Mirtha Brock | image = | caption = | full_name = Mirtha Brock Forbes | nationality = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|4|9|df=y}} | birth_place = San Andrés, Colombia | death_date = | death_place = | height = <!-- {{convert|}} (yyyy) --> | weight = <!-- {{convert|}} (yyyy) --> | country = {{flagcountry|Colombia}} | sport = Women's Athletics | event = 100m, 200m | club = | team = | turnedpro = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | highestranking = | pb = | updated = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's athletics}} {{MedalCountry | {{COL}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Pan American Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1995 Mar del Plata | 4 x 100 m}} {{MedalBronze| 1995 Mar del Plata | 4 x 400 m}} {{MedalCompetition|South American Games}} {{MedalBronze |1994 Valencia | 100 m}} {{MedalCompetition|Bolivarian Games}} {{MedalGold |1997 Arequipa | 4x100 m relay}} {{MedalGold |2001 Ambato | 100 m}} {{MedalSilver |1993 Cochabamba | 100 m}} {{MedalSilver |1997 Arequipa | 100 m}} {{MedalBronze |1997 Arequipa | 200 m}} | show-medals = }} {{family name hatnote|Brock|Forbes|lang=Spanish}}

'''Mirtha Brock Forbes''' (born 9 April 1970) is a Colombian retired track and field athlete, who competed in the sprint events during her career. She won two gold medals at the Bolivarian Games and twice represented Colombia at the Olympics.

==Early life== Brock was born on 9 April 1970 on San Andrés, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Colombia.<ref name="Brock">{{cite web |title=Mirtha Brock |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66635 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref>

==Career== At the 1993 Bolivarian Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Brock won silver in the women's 100 m.<ref name="Bolivar">{{cite web |title=Bolivarian Games |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/bolg.htm |publisher=Athletics Weekly |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref>

She followed that up with a silver in the women's 100 m and a gold in the women's 4 x 100 m relay at the 1994 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Mar del Plata, Argentina.<ref name=rfea_01>{{cite web |last=Mansilla |first=Ignacio |title=EL ATLETISMO IBEROAMERICANO |url=http://www.rfea.es/aeea/archivos/libroiberoamericano2010.pdf |pages=131–140 |publisher=Real Federación Española de Atletismo |language=es |isbn=84-87704-77-8 |publication-date=May 2010 |edition=4th |accessdate=14 March 2015 |archive-date=23 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123081158/http://www.rfea.es/aeea/archivos/libroiberoamericano2010.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

At the 1995 Pan American Games, also held in Mar del Plata, Brock helped Colombia to bronze in both the women's 4 × 100 metres relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay.<ref>{{cite web |title=PAN-AMERICAN GAMES Mar del Plata, Argentina 1995 |url=https://atfs.org/wp-content/uploads/Pan-Am-Games-1995.pdf |publisher=Association of Track and Field Statisticians |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref>

Brock made her Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States where she contested both the women's 100 m and the women's 4 x 100 metres relay.<ref name="Brock"/> She was eliminated in the heats of the women's 100 m after finishing seventh in her heat in a time of 11.83 seconds.<ref>{{cite web |title=1996 Summer Olympics, 100 metres, Women |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/65030 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref> Team Colombia narrowly missed out on a place in the final of the women's 4 x 100 metres relay after finished fourth in their heat in a time of 44.16 seconds.<ref>{{cite web |title=1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 100 metres Relay, Women |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/65143 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref>

She made her final Olympic appearance at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia as part of the Colombian relay team for the women's 4 x 100 metres relay.<ref name="Brock"/> Colombia progressed from the heats to the semi-finals but finished eighth in their semi-final in a time of 44.37 seconds and did not advance to the final.<ref>{{cite web |title=2000 Summer Olympics, 4 x 100 metres Relay, Women |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/65800 |publisher=Olympedia |access-date=14 July 2025}}</ref>

==Achievements== {|{{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{COL}} |- |1993 |Bolivarian Games |Cochabamba, Bolivia |bgcolor=silver|2nd |100 m |12.03 '''A''' |- |rowspan=2|1994 |rowspan=2|Ibero-American Championships |rowspan=2|Mar del Plata, Argentina |bgcolor=silver|2nd |100m |11.78 <small>(wind: +1.6&nbsp;m/s)</small> |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 100 m relay |44.87 |- |rowspan = "3"|1997 |rowspan = "3"|Bolivarian Games |rowspan = "3"|Arequipa, Peru |bgcolor=silver|2nd |100 m |11.50 '''w''' (2.6&nbsp;m/s) '''A''' |- |bgcolor=cc9966|3rd |200 m |23.86 '''w''' (3.1&nbsp;m/s) '''A''' |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 100 m relay |43.89 '''CR''' '''A''' |- |rowspan=2|1998 |rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Games |rowspan=2|Maracaibo, Venezuela |6th |100 m |11.73 |- |bgcolor=silver|2nd |4 × 100&nbsp;m relay |44.39 |- |2001 |Bolivarian Games |Ambato, Ecuador |bgcolor=gold|1st |100 m |11.82 (-2.0&nbsp;m/s) '''A''' |- |rowspan=2|2002 |rowspan=2|Central American and Caribbean Games |rowspan=2|San Salvador, El Salvador |5th |400 m |55.02 |- |bgcolor=gold|1st |4 × 100 m relay |45.34 |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{SR/Olympics profile|br/mirtha-brock-1}} *{{World Athletics}}

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