Natalia Linares

Natalia Carolina Linares González (born 3 January 2003) is a Colombian track and field athlete and South American record holder in the long jump, which she set winning the bronze medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships. She also won the bronze medal the following year at the 2026 World Indoor Championships. Previously, she was a gold medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games and 2025 South American Championships and is a three-time champion at the South American Indoor Championships in Athletics.

Early life The daughter of Yanelis Gonzales, Linares attended the Gimnasio del Norte school in Valledupar, Colombia. By 2023, she had moved to Santa Marta where she trains alongside Arnovis Dalmero under Martin Suarez. She studied at the University of Magdalena.

Career Linares won the silver medal in the South American Games in Asunción in 2022 and also win silver at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali in 2022. That year, she won the long jump at the 2022 Bolivarian Games, setting a new Colombian U23 (and U20) national record of 6.79 metres.

Linares won a gold medal in the long jump at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games, setting a personal best distance of 6.86 meters. In August 2023, she competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.

She won a gold medal at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, jumping 6.66 metres.

She was selected for the women's long jump at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where she finished in twelfth place. She ran as part of the Colombian relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau. She competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

She won the bronze medal at the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany. In September 2025, she won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, setting a new South American record of 6.92 metres.

Competing at the 2026 South American Indoor Championships, Linares won the gold medal in the long jump and set a championship record and national indoor best of 6.73m. In March, she jumped 6.80 metres to win the bronze medal at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland. In May, she won the long jump at the 2026 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Peru.

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