Sonia Molina-Prados Explained

Sonia Molina-Prados
Nationality:Spanish
Sport:Track and Field
Event:100m, 200m
Birth Date:14 July 1993

Sonia Molina-Prados (born 14 July 1993) is a Spanish track and field athlete who competes in 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay races.

Career

Molina-Prados moved from Ciudad Real in Castilla–La Mancha to train in Granada with Manola Jiménez in 2019 and she credits this move with an uplift in her performances, even though the move was hampered and disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, she lowered her personal best times in both the 100m (11.31) and 200m (23.40). The 100m personal best came at the 2022 Spanish national athletics championships in which she would finish runner-up to Jaël Bestué.[1]

Molina-Prados was part of the Spanish 4 x 100m team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, 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.[2] In the final the following day they lowered the national record again, to 42.58 seconds.[3]

Molina-Prados was announced as part of the Spanish 4x100m relay team for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich.[4] She also competed individually in the 100m in Munich but did not progress past the heats running 11.64 seconds.[5]

She ran as part of the Spanish 4x100m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.[6] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.[7]

She was officially selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics in July 2024.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sonia Molina-Prados, ante un Europeo para competir y disfrutar. lanzadigital.clm.
  2. Web site: Women's 4x100 enters final with Spanish record. nationalworldnews.com.
  3. Web site: Éxito internacional de las atletas Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla. ondacero.com.
  4. Web site: Sonia Molina-Prados y Paula Sevilla en los Europeos de Atletismo. ondacero.es.
  5. Web site: Sonia Molina-Prados se queda a las puertas de las semifinales del Europeo. lanzadigital.com.
  6. Web site: World Athletics. Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024. 12 May 2024. 5 May 2024.
  7. Web site:
    1. EspañaAtletismo Road to Roma: Preselección definitiva
    . Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. 30 May 2024. 4 June 2024.
  8. Web site: Spain's list for athletics at the Paris Olympics. sport.es. 3 July 2024. 3 July 2024.