Ronald Odair de Oliveira Julião (born 16 June 1985) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the

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and discus throw. He is a member of

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's track club and is trained by João Paulo Alves da Cunha. He is the Brazilian record holder in the discus throw (65.55 m). He is the second highest ranked South American discus thrower after

Jorge Balliengo Jorge Esteban Balliengo (born 5 January 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentine discus thrower. He became South American champion in 2005. He also competed at the 2005 World Championships without qualifying for the final round. Balliengo's p ...

and has won straight titles at the Brazil championships since 2005. Julião is a five-time medallist in the discus at the South American Championships in Athletics and won the gold medal in the event in 2011 with a

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. He also won a silver medal in the shot put at the 2009 South American Championships. He won bronze medals in the discus at the

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and Summer Universiade in 2011.

Career

Early career

Born in Caieiras in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, Ronald Julião attended Sebastião de Oliveira Gusmão school and began training in the shot put from the age of thirteen. He won the Ibirapuera schools meet in 1999 and an athletics coach, Fatima Aparecida Germano, offered to train him as a result. She taught him in the shot put and also added the discus throw event to his oeuvre.Perfil - Ronald Julião
BM&F Bovespa. Retrieved on 2012-05-21. In his first major regional competition he took third place in the shot put at the 2002 South American Youth Championships. He came sixth in the shot at the

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, but showed progression in the discus by taking second place with a throw of 56.36 m. He signed up with the BM&F Bovespa club in 2005 and began to establish himself in the senior ranks that year.

First regional medals

He won his first national discus title in 2005 and took the

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in the event at the

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, also finishing sixth in the shot put. The following year he was runner-up to Argentine athletes twice in the discus. At the

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he finished behind

, then at the

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he was beaten by

Germán Lauro Germán Luján Lauro (born 2 April 1984) is an Argentine shot putter and discus thrower. He is the South American record holder in the shot put both indoors and outdoors with marks of 21.04 m and 21.26 m, respectively. His personal b ...

. Outside of the region, he was eighth in the shot put and fourth in the discus at the

2006 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics The 2006 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics (''Spanish: XII Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo'') was the twelfth edition of the international athletics competition between Ibero-American nations that place at the Francisco Montaner Sta ...

.El Atletismo Ibero-Americano - San Fernando 2010
(pgs. 193-201). RFEA. Retrieved on 2012-01-09. In Macau he won his first international shot put medal, taking the bronze at the

2006 Lusophony Games The 1st Lusophone Games ( pt, 1.os Jogos da Lusofonia; ) were held in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China between 7 and 15 October 2006. The 2006 Games were the first edition of this multi-sport event for Port ...

. In the 2007 season Julião improved his personal bests to 59.75 m for the discus and 17.81 m for the shot put.Julião Ronald
IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-21. He came fifth at the

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with his shot put effort and was runner-up to Lauro in the discus competition. He was further down the rankings at the

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held in Rio de Janeiro, taking tenth place in the shot and sixth in the discus. He cleared eighteen metres in the shot put for the first time in May 2008, throwing 18.12 m at the South American GP meet in Uberlândia. He won both throwing national titles at the Brazilian Championships, but did not qualify for the

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. His sole international competition that year was the Ibero-American Championships, where he managed third in the discus. Julião threw a shot put best of 18.19 m to take the silver medal at the

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– a performance that was better than that in his principal event, as he came third in the discus. Repeating his feat from three years previously, he came third in the shot at the

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South American champion

He improved significantly as an athlete in the 2010 season. Under the advice of José Luis Martínez, a Spanish throwing coach, he had changed the focus of his training, moving away from building strength and towards technique-based methods.Biscayart, Eduardo (2011-06-05)
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. Retrieved on 2011-06-05. Clearing sixty metres in the discus for the first time, he opened the year with a Brazilian record of 60.40 m, beating José Araujo de Souza's mark which has stood since 1990. He broke the record three more times that year, culminating in a throw of 63.09 m at the Meeting de Atletismo Madrid. He also became the national indoor record holder in the shot put with a throw of 17.51 m. There were no major international competitions for Julião that year, but he placed fifth in the shot and sixth in the discus at the

2010 Ibero-American Championships The 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics (Spanish: ''XIV Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo'') was an athletics competition which was held at the Estadio Municipal Bahía Sur in San Fernando, Cádiz, Spain from 4–6 June. A total ...

. He improved his indoor shot put record to 17.94 m at the start of 2011. He was fourth in that event at the

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, but performed well in the discus by taking his first ever continental

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with a

throw of 62.72 m. Still studying at university, his form peaked for the

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held in Shenzhen. He broke the outdoor national record in the shot put with a throw of 18.78 m (coming ninth) and improved his discus mark to 63.30 m to leave the competition with the bronze medal. His last appearance for Brazil that year came at the

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, where he won another discus bronze medal. Julião threw 65.41 m at the

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in May 2012, lifting him into second place on the all-time South American discus rankings behind Jorge Balliengo.

Personal bests

*Shot put: 18.78 m – Shenzhen, 16 August 2011 *Discus throw: 65.55 m –

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, 27 April 2013

Competition record

^*: At the

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, Ronald Julião as initially 4th, but Argentinian

Marcelo Pugliese Marcelo Adrián Pugliese (born 2 September 1968 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine discus thrower. His personal best throw is 64.23 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Mar del Plata. He became South American champion in 1999, 2001 and 2003 ...

was disqualified because of doping violations.
^**: Competing out of competition. ;National titles *Discus throw: 2005 to 2015 (11) *Shot put: 2008 to 2011 (4)

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