Yolanda Caballero

Yolanda Caballero

Yolanda Caballero at Boston Marathon 2013
Personal information
Born	(1982-03-09) March 9, 1982 (age 34) Bogotá, Colombia
Height	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	46 kg (101 lb)
Sport
Country	Colombia
Sport	Women's athletics
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Colombia Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara 10,000 m Central American and Caribbean Games 2010 Mayagüez 10,000 m Bolivarian Games 2005 Armenia 3000 m steeplechase South American Championships 2005 Cali 3000 m steeplechase

Yolanda Beatriz Caballero Pérez (born March 9, 1982) is a long-distance runner from Colombia. Her personal best of 2:26:17 hours for the marathon (set at the Boston Marathon) is the fastest by a South American runner. Her half marathon best of 1:10:30 hours is also a South American record.

She started out as a steeplechase runner, taking bronze at the 2005 South American Championships, but progressed to long-distance races. She was the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games champion in the 10,000 metres, and was the bronze medallist in that event at the 2011 Pan American Games. She represented Colombia in the marathon at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Based in Bogotá, she is affiliated with the Atletas con Porvenir running club. Her international career began in 2001: she was ninth in the junior race at the South American Cross Country Championships and competed at both the Pan American Junior and South American Junior Championships. At the Pan American event she was third in the 1500 metres and at the South American competition she was the runner-up in the 3000 metres steeplechase and bronze medallist over 5000 metres. She moved up in age category at the 2004 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics and took third over 1500 m and broke the Colombian national record in the steeplechase with a time of 10:24.09 minutes for second place. She traveled to Europe to compete at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics and ran a personal best of 9:36.86 minutes for the 3000 metres.