Arantxa King
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Arantxa King during 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow.
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| Born | November 27, 1989 |
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| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) |
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| Country |  Bermuda |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Long Jump |
| Updated on 21 July 2012. | |
Arantxa King (born 27 November 1989 in Paget Parish[1]) is a Bermudian athlete competing in the long jump. Her mother, Branwen Smith-King, is a former Bermuda national track and field team member, while her father Adrian King is a former international cricket player, and her sister Akilah was an accomplished athlete at Brown University.
Arantxa competed at the 4th IAAF World Youth Championships in Marrakech, Morocco, in 2005. With a best jump of 6.39 m, she won the World Youth title in women's Long Jump. She competed at the 11th IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, in 2006 and the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in 2008. In 2008, she also competed at the XXIX Summer Olympics in Beijing on Bermuda's behalf, and in 2006, she also competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She has competed at the XXX Olympic Games in London, England, in 2012, at the 14th IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in 2013, and the Commonwealth Games in Scotland, in 2014.
Internationally, Arantxa has won a silver medal in Long Jump at the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Senior Track and Field Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and multiple junior medals in Carifta, Pan American Games, and Central American and Caribbean games.
Arantxa has competed on behalf of Stanford University. She was an NCAA runner-up in 2010 and an All-American twice.[2] She completed a degree in Political Science in 2011.
She holds the Bermuda National Record for the women's Long Jump outdoors and indoors for the long jump.
| EVENT | PERFORMANCE | PLACE, DATE |
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| 100 Metres | 11.88 (+0.4 m/s) | Mexico, June 2013 |
| Long Jump | 6.50 m (+2.0 m/s) | Austin, Texas, USA, 31 March 2012 |
| Triple Jump | 13.28 m (+1.5 m/s) | Des Moines, June 2012 |
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- 1989 births
- Living people
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- Olympic athletes of Bermuda
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