Princesa Oliveros

Princesa Oliveros

Personal information
Full name	María Princesa Oliveros Bohórquez
Born	(1975-08-10) August 10, 1975 (age 41) Luruaco, Atlántico, Colombia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Country	Colombia
Sport	Women's Athletics
Medal record Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 400 m hurdles 2011 Guadalajara 4×400 m relay CAC Games 2002 San Salvador 100 m hurdles 2002 San Salvador 400 m hurdles Bolivarian Games 1997 Arequipa 100 m hurdles 1997 Arequipa 400 m hurdles 1997 Arequipa 4x400 m relay 2001 Ambato 100 m hurdles 2001 Ambato 400 m hurdles 2001 Ambato 4x400 m relay 2005 Armenia 100 m hurdles 2005 Armenia 400 m hurdles 2009 Sucre 400 m hurdles CAC Championships 2008 Cali 400 m hurdles South American Championships 2001 Manaus 400 m hurdles 2005 Cali 4×400 m relay 2006 Tunja 100 m hurdles 2011 Buenos Aires 400 m hurdles 2011 Buenos Aires 4×400 m relay 1999 Bogotá 100 m hurdles 1999 Bogotá 400 m hurdles 2003 Barquisimeto 100 m hurdles 2003 Barquisimeto 400 m hurdles 2009 Lima 400 m hurdles

María Princesa Oliveros Bohórquez (born 10 August 1975) is a Colombian track and field athlete who competes in the 100 metres hurdles and 400 metres hurdles events. Her personal bests are 13.41 seconds and 56.26 seconds, respectively. She was the gold medallist in the 400 m hurdles at the 2011 Pan American Games, at which she also won a 4×400 metres relay bronze medal in a Colombian record time.

She has won numerous hurdles medals at the South American Championships in Athletics and has reached the podium at the competition in seven different years (from 1999 to 2011, with the exception of 2007). At regional level, she has been a hurdles medallist at the Central American and Caribbean Championships and CAC Games, as well as being a six-time champion at the Bolivarian Games.

Born in Luruaco, Atlántico Department and raised in Turbo, Antioquia, she initially took an interest in volleyball. She showed an aptitude for hurdling at an inter-school meeting in 1991, but remained more interested in the ball game and represented her municipality in the sport. By the time she went to university, however, she had not grown tall enough to be a professional volleyball player and decided to use her athletic speed for the 400 m hurdles instead. Having come from a poor family, her mother encouraged her to focus on her science studies rather than sport, but Oliveros combined the two as a student-athlete and she developed into a regional-class hurdler.

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