Arantxa King

Arantxa King

File:Arantxa King (2013 World Championships in Athletics) 03.jpg Arantxa King during 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow.
Personal information
Born	(1989-11-27) November 27, 1989
Height
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Country	Bermuda
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Long Jump
Updated on 21 July 2012.

Arantxa King (born 27 November 1989 in Paget Parish) 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. 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
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

References

• Arantxa King profile at IAAF