Brenda Flores

Brenda Eunice Flores Muñoz (born 4 September 1991) is a Mexican

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. She was a double gold medallist for Mexico at the

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and a silver medallist at the
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. She represented the Americas at the
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.

Career
Flores grew up in the
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near the Mexican capital. She was inspired to take up
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after seeing Mexican
Ana Guevara Ana Gabriela Guevara Espinoza (born March 4, 1977) is a Mexican former track and field athlete who specialized in the 400 meters and is the 7th fastest female 300-meter runner in the world, running 300 meters in 35.3 seconds on May 3, 2003. She ...
claim the
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world title in 2003. Flores made her start over
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, but gradually moved up in distance as she failed to progress at shorter ones. Becoming a long-distance runner, she began instead to look to Mexico's former New York Marathon champion
Adriana Fernández Adriana Fernández Miranda (born April 4, 1971) is a Mexican long-distance runner. Fernández was 2nd in 1998, and in 1999, she became the first Mexican woman to win the New York City Marathon in a time of 2:25:06 in a dominant performance by ...
as a role model. Flores claimed her first international medals at the
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, held on home turf in
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, where she beat
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champion Adriana Muñoz to the
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gold medal and also claimed the
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silver medal behind her teammate
Marisol Romero Marisol Guadalupe Romero Rosales (born 26 January 1983) is a Mexican long-distance runner who competes over 5000 metres and 10,000 metres on the track and in half marathon and marathon road races. She won the marathon at the 2010 Central Americ ...
. She set several personal bests in the 2014, including a 5000 m run of 15:30.87 minutes as runner-up at the
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, a
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time of 32:49.09 minutes to win at the
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and a
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best of 9:10.29 minutes at the
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.Brenda Flores

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. Retrieved on 2015-07-21. Her native Mexico was the host of two major competitions that year and she won medals at both: she was the inaugural 5000 m champion at the Pan American Sports Festival and claimed a 5000 m/10,000 m long-distance double at the
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, which included a games record in the shorter event. She also gained her first global level call-up that year, representing the Americas at the
2014 IAAF Continental Cup The 2014 IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field sporting event that was held in Marrakech, Morocco, on 13–14 September 2014. It was the second edition of the IAAF Continental Cup since the name and format was changed from t ...
, where she placed sixth in the 5000 m. Flores ran at the
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in March 2015 and although she set a new best of 73:54 minutes for the distance, this was only enough for 19th in the high calibre race. Returning to the track, she knocked over a minute off her 10,000 m at the
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in May. She reached another international podium at the
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in Toronto, taking the 5000 m silver medal behind Brazil's
Juliana Paula dos Santos Juliana Paula Gomes dos Santos (née de Azevedo; born 12 July 1983) is a Brazilian middle-distance runner. Her greatest achievement is a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 2007 Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro. She is a three-time gold ...
.Diaz, Adriana (2015-07-21)
Brenda Flores gana plata en 5 mil metros
''El Universal''. Retrieved on 2015-07-21. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the
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held in Gdynia, Poland.

Personal bests
*
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– 9:10.29 min (2014) *
5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a stan ...
– 15:30.87 min (2014) *
10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...
– 31:45.16 min (2015) *
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– 73:54 min (2015)

International competitions

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Flores, Brenda Living people 1991 births Sportspeople from the State of Mexico Mexican female long-distance runners Mexican female middle-distance runners Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Mexico Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico Pan American Games silver medalists for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games 21st-century Mexican women