María Pía Fernández Moreira (born 1 April 1995) is a

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

middle-distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, ranging from 500 metres up to . The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distanc ...

. She has won multiple medals at regional level. Her personal best of 4:09.45 is the current national record in the

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilomet ...

International competitions

Personal bests

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800 metres The 800 metres, or 800 meters (American and British English spelling differences#-re.2C -er, US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of a ...

– 2:05.85 (Burgos 2021) *

– 4:09.45 (Doha 2019) NR *

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000 m sho ...

– 9:12.80 (Kessel-Lo 2018) *

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 sta ...

– 17:29.37 (Montevideo 2020) * 10 kilometres – 35:44 (Maldonado 2020) *

3000 metres steeplechase The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase (usually Abbreviation, abbreviated as ) is the most common distance for the steeplechase (athletics), steeplechase in track and field. It is an obstacle race over the distance of the 3000 met ...

– 10:37.12 (Montevideo 2019) Indoor *

– 2:08.20 (Cochabamba 2024) NR *

– 4:17.77 (Glasgow 2024) NR

References

1995 births Living people Uruguayan female middle-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games athletes for Uruguay People from Trinidad, Uruguay South American Championships in Athletics winners Ibero-American Championships in Athletics winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Uruguay Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Uruguayan sportswomen Competitors at the 2019 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Pan American Games {{Uruguay-athletics-bio-stub