Mirtha Brock
Mirtha Brock Forbes is a retired female track and field athlete from Colombia, who competed in the sprint events during her career. She won two gold medals at the Bolivarian Games and twice represented Colombia at the Olympics.
Early life
Brock was born on 9 April 1970 on San Andrés, San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina">San Andrés (island)">San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Colombia.Career
At the 1993 Bolivarian Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Brock won silver in the women's 100 m.She followed that up with a silver in the women's 100 m and a gold in the women's 4 x 100 m relay at the 1994 [Ibero-American Championships in Athletics] in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
At the 1995 Pan American Games, also held in Mar del Plata, Brock helped Colombia to bronze in both the Athletics at the [1995 Pan American Games – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay|women's 4 × 100 metres relay] and the Athletics at the 1995 [Pan American Games – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay|women's 4 × 400 metres relay].
Brock made her Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States where she contested both the Athletics at the [1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres|women's 100 m] and the Athletics at the 1996 [Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay|women's 4 x 100 metres relay]. She was eliminated in the heats of the women's 100 m after finishing seventh in her heat in a time of 11.83 seconds. Team Colombia narrowly missed out on a place in the final of the women's 4 x 100 metres relay after finished fourth in their heat in a time of 44.16 seconds.
She made her final Olympic appearance at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as part of the Colombian relay team for the Athletics at the [2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 x 100 metres relay|women's 4 x 100 metres relay]. Colombia progressed from the heats to the semi-finals but finished eighth in their semi-final in a time of 44.37 seconds and did not advance to the final.