Paula Sevilla (born 28 June 1997, in La Solana, Ciudad Real) is a Spanish athlete. She was the Spanish

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national champion in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, she became the Spanish national champion in

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Career

Sevilla was part of the Spanish team that won gold at the

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, Poland in the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay. In 2022, Sevilla's new personal best time of 22.86 placed her as the second fastest Spanish woman over 200m of all time, behind only

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. When subsequently winning the Spanish national athletics championships shortly afterwards Sevilla actually ran a lower time than her new personal best, winning in a time of 22.73, but it was classified as a wind assisted race. Sevilla was part of the Spanish team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in

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, twice breaking the Spanish national record. The team had initially broken the national record running 42.61 in the qualifying heats to qualify for the final. In the final the following day they lowered the national record again, to 42.58 seconds. She was then announced as part of the Spanish relay team for the

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in Munich. In Munich, Sevilla also competed individually in the 200m and finished tenth fastest in the semi-finals. She ran as part of the Spanish relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in

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. She was selected for the

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in Rome in June 2024. She was officially selected for the

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in July 2024.

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* 1997 births Living people Spanish female sprinters 21st-century Spanish women Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Spain Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games bronze medalists for Spain European Games medalists in athletics {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub