Brazil’s Alison Brendom Competing for World’s Best U-20 Athlete Award

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian sprinter Alison Brendom, 19, known as Piu, is a finalist for the World’s Best Under-20 Athlete. The announcement was made yesterday morning, November 5th, by the International Athletics Federation (IAAF).

Brendom is competing with four other athletes in the Male Rising Star Award category, one of the trophies of the Best of Athletics event in 2019. The award ceremony will be held on November 23rd in the Principality of Monaco.

The year 2019 was one with notable conquests for the athlete from São Joaquim da Barra.

In August, Brendom won the gold medal in the 400m hurdles in Lima, after 20 years without a medal for Brazil in the Pan American Games.

In the following month, the sprinter was the Brazilian revelation in the 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar: Brendom broke his personal record and also the South American U-20 record by qualifying with the 48s28 mark for the final of the 400m hurdles.

In the final qualifying round, the runner came in seventh place.

Source: Agência Brasil

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