Arantxa King (born 27 November 1989) is a Bermudian athlete competing in the

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Biography

King was born in

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, Bermuda on 27 November 1989. Her mother, Branwen Smith-King, is a former Bermuda national track and field team member while her father Adrian King is a former international

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player. Her sister Akilah was also an accomplished athlete at

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. King competed at the 2005 IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakech, Morocco. 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. She also competed for

Bermuda at the 2008 Summer Olympics Bermuda sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The games marked Bermuda's twenty-first Olympic appearance since its debut in 1936. The 2008 delegation included six athletes: Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King in l ...

in Beijing, and in 2006, she also competed at the

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. She has competed at the XXX Olympic Games in London, England, in 2012, at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in 2013, and the

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in Scotland, in 2014. Internationally, King has won a silver medal in long jump at the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and multiple junior medals in Carifta, Pan American Games, and Central American and Caribbean games. King competed for

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, where she was a two-time All-American and finished as a runner-up at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships. She completed a degree in Political Science in 2011 and a master's degree in 2012 at Stanford.

National records

She holds the Bermuda national record for the women's long jump, both outdoors and indoors.

References

External links

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Stanford Cardinal bio
1989 births Living people Bermudian female long jumpers Bermudian emigrants to the United States Olympic athletes of Bermuda Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Bermuda Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Pan American Games competitors for Bermuda Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Bermuda Stanford Cardinal women's track and field athletes People from Paget Parish Bermudian people of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines descent {{Bermuda-athletics-bio-stub