Ximena Restrepo

Ximena Restrepo

Personal information
Full name	Ximena Restrepo Gaviria
Born	(1969-03-10) 10 March 1969 (age 55) Medellín, Colombia
Education	University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Country	Colombia  Chile
Sport	Athletics
Events	100 metres 200 metres 400 metres 400 metres hurdles 4×100 metres 4×400 metres
College team	Nebraska Cornhuskers
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	1992 Summer Olympics
Medal record Representing  Colombia Women's athletics Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona 400 m Pan American Games 1991 Havana 200 m 1991 Havana 400 m South American Games 1994 Valencia 400 m 1994 Valencia 400 m hurdles 1994 Valencia 4×100 m relay Bolivarian Games 1985 Cuenca 200 m 1985 Cuenca 4×100 m relay 1985 Cuenca 4×400 m relay

With the time of 49.64 seconds she won a bronze medal in 400 metres at the 1992 Olympic Games, Colombia's first athletics medal. This result is still a South American record, as is the case with her 200 metres time of 22.92 seconds, which she achieved in 1991. At the 1991 Pan American Games she won silver medals in 200 and 400 metres.

Restrepo is married to Chilean shot putter Gert Weil. She attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she won the 1991 NCAA Championship in the 400 metres.^[2] Martina Weil, daughter of Ximena and Gert, is a track and field athlete at the University of Tennessee after winning the 400 meters in the South American U23 championships and setting a Chilean national record in the event, and recently won a gold medal in the 400 meters in the 2023 Panamerican games.^[3]

Living now in Chile, she is the first female elected vice-president of the World Athletics, in Doha on 25 September 2019.^[4]

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