Anggie Avegno
Personal information
Birth nameAnggie Nicole Avegno Salazar
NicknameGita
Born (1996-06-08) June 8, 1996
Guayaquil
Height1.53 m (5.0 ft)
Other interestsSoccer
Sport
Country Ecuador
SportCanoeing
University teamUniversity of Guayaquil
Coached bySebastian de Cesare

Anggie Nicole Avegno Salazar (born 8 June 1996) is an Ecuadorian canoeist for the University of Guayaquil.

Biography

Anggie Avegno was born on 8 June 1996 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[1] She took an interest in canoeing after watching observing a group of people canoeing in the Good Friday Park in the south of Guayaquil with her parents.[2] She studied at the College of Santa María de los Ángeles.[1]

In 2012, under the direction of Ossian Frydson, Avegno placed 4th in boating in the World Cup, in that year held in Russia.[2] That same year, she became Pan-American and Junior World boating champion.[3]

In 2013, she became the junior vice-world champion and won two bronze medals at the World Cups in Hungary and the Czech Republic in 2013 and a gold medal at the 2013 Bolivarian Games in canoeing. The next year, Avegno won the South American championship in C-1200 meters, beating Chilean Nancy Millán and Valdenise Conceição of Brazil for the gold medal with a time of 47 seconds and 351 thousandths in the X Games held in Santiago, Chile.[3] On 20 July of that year, she won the silver medal at the U-23 World Canoe Championship in Hungary.[4]

In April 2015, Avegno obtained one of each type of medal at the South American Rafting competition held at the Yawarkucha in Ecuador. She won a gold medal in the Under 21 category of the C1-1000 meters category (5 min. 11.09 sec.), silver in C1-500 meters (2 min. 27.56 sec.), and bronze in C2-500 meters (2 min. 6.43 sec.) with Mía Friend.[5]

Avegno and Friend would also win gold medals in C2-500 meters at the 2015 World Cup in Boulogne.[6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 "Angie Avegno es una guerrera que gana todo en el canotaje". El Comercio (in Spanish). 12 May 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Canoístas femeninas se "abren aguas" a nivel internacional". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 23 June 2012. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Avegno suma su séptimo título internacional". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 15 March 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  4. "Anggie Avegno, subcampeona en el Mundial Sub-23 de Canotaje". El Telégrafo (in Spanish). 21 July 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  5. "Anggie Avegno gana tres medallas en el Sudamericano de Canotaje". El Telégrafo. 17 April 2015. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  6. "Las canoístas Avegno y Friend superaron a las mejores del mundo". El Telégrafo. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
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