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| Born | 5 April 2003 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 3000m, 5000m, 3000m steeplechase | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 3000m: 8:53.97 (Valencia, 2025) 5000m: 15:27.06 (Nerja, 2023) 3000m Steeplechase: 9:25.74 (Bydgoszcz, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
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Marta Serrano Azpiazu (born 5 April 2003) is a Spanish track and field athlete who competes as a long-distance runner and a steeplechaser. [1]
Serrano is a member of Valencia Athletics Club, having joined the club in 2017. She initially competed in combined events before focusing on steeplechase in 2021. [2] She broke the Spanish U20 record for the 3000m steeplechase in 2022 at the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, running 9:59.97. In May 2023, Serrano set a new national U23 record for the 5000m when she clocked 15:27.06 in Malaga. [3] Two weeks later, she lowered her personal best for the 3000m steeplechase, and broke the Spanish U23 record when she ran 9:27.07 in Budapest. [4]
Serrano won a bronze medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo in July 2023. [5] She became the national champion by winning the Spanish Athletics Championships in July 2023, and in doing so lowered the national U23 record again, recording a time of 9:26.35. At the age of 20 years-old, she also became the youngest ever winner of the title. [6] [7]
Competing in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she finished ninth in her heat, running 9:31.82. [8]
She competed in the U23 race at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships, helping Spain to finish fourth overall in the team race. [9] She ran an indoors personal best over 3000 meters, running 8:53.97 in Valencia in February 2025. [10]
In May 2025, she ran a new personal best for the 3000 metres steeplechase of 9:25.74 at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Bydgoszcz. [11] She competed for Spain at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships First Division in Madrid on 29 June 2025, finishing in fourth place. [12] She finished 0.25 seconds behind Ilona Mononen to win the silver medal in the 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships in Bergen, Norway. [13] She won the 3000 metres steeplechase at the Spanish Athletics Championships in August 2025. [14]
She was selected for the Spanish team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [15]
She was born in Madrid. She is the daughter of Spanish international runners Antonio Serrano, who represented Spain at the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, and Natalia Azpiazu. [16] [2]
