Ana Camila Pirelli Explained

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Ana Camila Pirelli
Fullname:Ana Camila Donatella Pirelli Cubas
Birth Date:30 January 1989
Birth Place:Ayolas, Paraguay
Height:1.75m (05.74feet)
Weight:70kg (150lb)
Sport:Athletics
Event:Combined events
Updated:24 July 2014

Ana Camila Donatella Pirelli Cubas (born 30 January 1989) is a Paraguayan track and field athlete who competes in the heptathlon. She is the Paraguayan record holder in the event with a personal best score of 5733 points. Pirelli holds more than a dozen national records in events as varied as the 100 metres hurdles, shot put and the indoor women's pentathlon. Pirelli was the heptathlon silver medallist at the 2013 South American Championships in Athletics. She won the gold medal at the 2013 Bolivarian Games and the 2014 South American Games, breaking games records at both competitions. Pirelli is tied to Paraguay Marathon Club and competes in Paraguay's national competitions under the Federación Paraguaya de Atletismo.[1]

Pirelli has committed to using her platform as a sportswoman to speak out about the impact of climate change as an EcoAthlete Champion, saying that growing up surrounded by wildlife has made her eager to protect it. In November 2023, she was named one of the BBC 100 Women 2023 for her sporting achievements and climate activism.[2]

Career

Early life and career

She was born to Juan Carlos Pirelli and Magdalena Cubas in Asunción and raised in Ayolas. Pirelli had an upbringing full of sports – her father was a basketball player while her mother was a former national universities champion in the pentathlon. She frequented the local sports club, Club Social y Deportivo Yacyretá, with her brother in her youth. She took part in basketball, handball and tennis. At age ten she became the national champion in figure skating in her age category. She then turned her attention to swimming and represented her country at an international event in Chile in 2005, setting a national junior record in the 50 metres freestyle swimming event.[3] [4] An interest in athletics followed: she took part in the 2005 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, although she was last in both the throwing events (shot put and javelin throw) in which she competed.[5] In 2006, she ran a Paraguayan national record of 25.51 seconds for the 200 metres and won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2006 South American Youth Championships in Athletics.[6]

Pirelli participated in the 100 metres hurdles and the 4×400 metres relay at the 2007 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, but finished last in both races.[7] The heptathlon continued to bring her greater success, as she managed fourth place at the 2007 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships – an event won by future world championships medalist Brianne Theisen.[8]

First senior competitions

Pirelli entered her first senior international event the year after, recording a personal best score of 4940 points to take 12th place at the 2008 Pan American Combined Events Championships.[9] She began to study sports science at university in Asunción and gained a scholarship to continue her studies at Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma, United States.[4] Her most prominent outing in 2009 was at the South American Championships, where she ranked fifth in the heptathlon.[10]

A national record in the heptathlon came at the 2010 South American Games/South American U23 Championships, where she was the bronze medallist with a score of 5118 points.[11] She performed at two major events in 2011: a score of 5115 points brought her fourth at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics and a new national record of 5157 points placed her ninth at the 2011 Pan American Games.[12] She set school records when competing for the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles in collegiate competition in 2012: a score of 3765 for the indoor pentathlon preceded a win at The Summit League championship outdoors in a record score of 5254 points in the heptathlon. In addition to this, she set a javelin throw record of at the NCAA preliminaries.[13] She improved her national record further in international competition that year as she managed 5479 points for fifth place at the 2012 Ibero-American Championships – her mark of in the shot put was also an outright national record.[12]

Pirelli graduated from Oral Roberts University with a degree in biology in 2012 and was the highest academic performer among the school's student athletes that year.[14]

Multiple record holder

The 2013 season saw Pirelli establish herself among the best ever female athletes from Paraguay. Over the course of the year, she broke the national records in the 200 m (24.64 seconds), 400 metres (56.94 seconds), indoor 800 metres (2:20.44 minutes), 60 metres hurdles (8.79 seconds), 100 metres hurdles (13.70 seconds), indoor long jump (5.67 m), the indoor pentathlon (4032 points) and the heptathlon (5733 points).[12] At the start of the year her pentathlon performance topped the rankings at the Austrian indoor championships and her score ranked ahead of the former South American record held by Themys Zambrzycki,[15] which had been broken by Vanessa Spinola earlier that month.[16] She gave four heptathlon performances outdoors that year. She set a new best of 5617 points at the Brazilian combined events cup in April,[12] then improved to 5683 points to take second place at the 2013 Pan American Combined Events Cup behind Cuba's Yorgelis Rodríguez.[17] She was runner-up to Brazil's Tamara de Souza at the 2013 South American Championships in Athletics – being one of two medallists for Paraguay alongside Víctor Fatecha. Her best performance of the year came at the 2013 Bolivarian Games, where she set a Games record and national record of 5733 points to secure the gold medal.[12]

In her first heptathlon of 2014 she again won a regional gold medal, this time at the 2014 South American Games. Her result of 5669 points was a Games record and she became the first ever Paraguayan woman to win an athletics title at the competition.[18] This included a national record of 13.66 seconds for the 100 m hurdles.[12]

Personal bests

Outdoor
Indoor
Non-combined events

All personal best information from Tilastopaja and IAAF[12] [19]

Achievements

Representing the
2005South American Junior ChampionshipsRosario, Argentina9thShot put10.54 m
8thJavelin32.12 m
2006South American U23 Championships /
South American Games
Buenos Aires, Argentina4thHeptathlon4593 pts
South American Youth ChampionshipsCaracas, Venezuelabgcolor=gold1stHeptathlon4790 pts
2007South American Junior ChampionshipsSao Paulo, Brazil8th100 m H15.57 s (0.0 m/s)
7th4×100 m49.55 s
bgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon4873 pts
Pan American Junior ChampionshipsSao Paulo, Brazil4thHeptathlon4873 pts
2008Pan American Combined Events ChampionshipsSanto Domingo, Dominican Republic12thHeptathlon4940 pts
2009South American ChampionshipsLima, Perú5thHeptathlon4754 pts
2010South American Under-23 ChampionshipsMedellín, Colombia3rdHeptathlon5118 pts
2011South American ChampionshipsBuenos Aires, Argentina4thHeptathlon5115 pts
Pan American GamesGuadalajara, México9thHeptathlon5157 pts A
2012Ibero-American ChampionshipsBarquisimeto, Venezuela5thHeptathlon5479 pts
2013Pan American Combined Events CupOttawa, Canadabgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon5683 pts
South American ChampionshipsCartagena, Colombiabgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon5610 pts
Bolivarian GamesTrujillo, Perú6th100 m H14.15 s (+0.1 m/s)
bgcolor=gold1stHeptathlon5733 pts
2014South American GamesSantiago, Chilebgcolor=gold1stHeptathlon5669 pts
Pan American Combined Events CupOttawa, Canada7thHeptathlon5548 pts
Ibero-American ChampionshipsSão Paulo, BrazilHeptathlonDNF
2015South American ChampionshipsLima, Peru5thHeptathlon5363 pts
Pan American GamesToronto, Canada9thHeptathlon5663 pts
Beijing, China35th (h)100 m H14.09 s
2016Ibero-American ChampionshipsRio de Janeiro, Brazil3rdHeptathlon5748 pts
2017South American ChampionshipsAsunción, Paraguay5thShot put13.89 m
2018South American GamesCochabamba, Bolivia3rdHeptathlon5503 pts
Ibero-American ChampionshipsTrujillo, Perubgcolor=gold1stHeptathlon5879 pts
2019South American ChampionshipsLima, Peru4thHeptathlon5694 pts
Pan American GamesLima, Peru4thHeptathlon5907 pts
2021Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan38th (h)100 m H13.98 s
2022Ibero-American ChampionshipsLa Nucía, Spainbgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon5808 pts
Bolivarian GamesValledupar, Colombia4th100 m H13.75 s
bgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon5848 pts
South American GamesAsunción, Paraguaybgcolor=silver2ndHeptathlon5756 pts
2023South American ChampionshipsSão Paulo, BrazilHeptathlonDNF
2024South American Indoor ChampionshipsCochabamba, Bolivia3rdPentathlon3410 pts
Ibero-American ChampionshipsCuiabá, Brazil4thHeptathlon5402 pts

Awards

In November 2023, Pirellli was named to the BBC's 100 Women list.[20]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Resultados Camp.y Eval. De May. Men. Y Juv. 16 April 2023. Atletismo Paraguayo. August 2015. es.
  2. Web site: BBC 100 Women 2023. 24 November 2023. BBC 100 Women 2023. November 2023. en.
  3. https://archive.today/20140324200625/http://www.lanacion.com.py/articulo/135103-ana-pirelli-cubas-la-superatleta-nacional-con-varios-record-.html Ana Pirelli Cubas, la superatleta nacional con varios récord
  4. http://www.abc.com.py/edicion-impresa/suplementos/abc-revista/una-chica-distinta-1091172.html Una chica distinta
  5. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/SAJC/SAJC2005.html 2005 South American Junior Championships
  6. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/SAYC/SAYC2006.html 2006 South American Youth Championships
  7. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/SAJC/SAJC2007.html South American Junior Championships
  8. http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/PAJC/PAJC2007.html Pan American Junior Championships
  9. http://www.iaaf.org/results/pan-american-games/2008/panamerican-combined-events-championships-3978/women/heptathlon/800-metres/points Panamerican Combined Events Championships > Heptathlon - women
  10. . CONSUDATLE (archived). Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  11. Biscayart, Eduardo (2010-03-24). 100m record at South American U23 champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  12. http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atw.php?ID=46687&Season=2007&Odd=0 Camila Pirelli
  13. http://www.orugoldeneagles.com/downloads2/777703.pdf?ATCLID=1305442&SPSID=90831&SPID=10331&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=17000 ORU Women’s Indoor/Outdoor Records
  14. http://www.ultimahora.com/pirelli-se-gradua-honores-usa-n522827.html Pirelli se gradúa con honores en USA
  15. https://archive.today/20140324200602/http://www.lanacion.com.py/articulo/113551-camila-pirelli-es-la-nueva-reina-del-pentatlon-sudamericano.html Camila Pirelli es la nueva reina del pentatlón sudamericano
  16. http://sport.postimees.ee/1124644/sadeiko-katkestas-voistluse-jalavigastuse-tottu Šadeiko katkestas võistluse jalavigastuse tõttu
  17. http://www.iaaf.org/results/pan-american-games/2013/panamerican-combined-events-championships-5258/women/heptathlon/800-metres/points Panamerican Combined Events Championships > Heptathlon - women
  18. Biscayart, Eduardo (2014-03-16). Lauro lights up third day of the ODESUR Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-03-24.
  19. http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/paraguay/ana-camila-pirelli-228814 Ana Camila Pirelli
  20. Web site: November 23, 2023 . BBC 100 Women 2023: Who is on the list this year? . 2023-11-24 . BBC News . en-GB.