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Paula Sevilla

Sevilla at the 2017 European U23 Championships

Personal information

Full name

Paula Sevilla López de la Vieja

Nationality

Spanish

Born

28 June 1997 (age 27)
La Solana, Ciudad Real, Spain

Height

1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)

Sport

Track and Field

Event(s)

100m, 200m

Medal record

Women's athletics

Representing Spain
European Games
	2023 Kraków-Małopolska	4×100 m relay
Mediterranean Games
	2018 Tarragona	4×100 m relay

Paula Sevilla López de la Vieja (born 28 June 1997, in La Solana, Ciudad Real) is a Spanish athlete. She was the Spanish 100m national champion in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, she became the Spanish national champion in 200m.

Career

Sevilla was part of the Spanish team that won gold at the 2017 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bydgoszcz, 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 Sandra Myers.^[1]^[2] 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.^[3]

Sevilla was part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m team that finished fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, 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.^[4] In the final the following day they lowered the national record again, to 42.58 seconds.^[5]

She was then announced as part of the Spanish relay team for the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich. In Munich, Sevilla also competed individually in the 200m and finished tenth fastest in the semi-finals.^[6]

She ran as part of the Spanish 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas.^[7] She was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024.^[8]

She was officially selected for the 2024 Paris Olympics in July 2024.^[9]