Ronald Julião

Ronald Odair de Oliveira Julião (born 16 June 1985) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who competes in the shot put and discus throw. He is a member of BM&F Bovespa's track club and is trained by João Paulo Alves da Cunha.[1] He is the Brazilian record holder in the discus throw (65.55 m). He is the second highest ranked South American discus thrower after Jorge Balliengo and has won straight titles at the Brazil championships since 2005.

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Oliveira and the second or paternal family name is Julião.
Ronald Julião
Ronald Julião at the 2015 Military World Games
Personal information
Full nameRonald Odair de Oliveira Julião
Born (1985-06-16) June 16, 1985
Caieiras, São Paulo
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Weight113 kg (249 lb)
Sport
Country Brazil
SportAthletics
Event(s)Discus
Medal record
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place2015 TorontoDiscus throw
Bronze medal – third place2011 GuadalajaraDiscus throw
Universiade
Gold medal – first place2013 KazanDiscus throw
Bronze medal – third place2011 ShenzhenDiscus throw
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place2011 Buenos AiresDiscus throw
Silver medal – second place2006 TunjaDiscus throw
Silver medal – second place2007 São PauloDiscus throw
Silver medal – second place2009 LimaShot put
Bronze medal – third place2005 CaliDiscus throw
Bronze medal – third place2009 LimaDiscus throw
South American Youth Championships
Bronze medal – third place2002 Asunción Shot put
Lusophony Games
Representing  Brazil
Bronze medal – third place Macau 2006Shot put
Bronze medal – third place Lisbon 2009Discus throw
Updated on 24 January 2015.

Julião is a five-time medallist in the discus at the South American Championships in Athletics and won the gold medal in the event in 2011 with a Championship record. He also won a silver medal in the shot put at the 2009 South American Championships. He won bronze medals in the discus at the Pan American Games and Summer Universiade in 2011.

Career

Early career

Born in Caieiras in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, Ronald Julião attended Sebastião de Oliveira Gusmão school and began training in the shot put from the age of thirteen. He won the Ibirapuera schools meet in 1999 and an athletics coach, Fatima Aparecida Germano, offered to train him as a result. She taught him in the shot put and also added the discus throw event to his oeuvre.[2] In his first major regional competition he took third place in the shot put at the 2002 South American Youth Championships.[3] He came sixth in the shot at the 2003 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, but showed progression in the discus by taking second place with a throw of 56.36 m.[4] He signed up with the BM&F Bovespa club in 2005 and began to establish himself in the senior ranks that year.[2]

First regional medals

He won his first national discus title in 2005 and took the bronze medal in the event at the 2005 South American Championships in Athletics, also finishing sixth in the shot put.[5] The following year he was runner-up to Argentine athletes twice in the discus. At the 2006 South American Championships in Athletics he finished behind Jorge Balliengo,[6] then at the 2006 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics he was beaten by Germán Lauro.[7] Outside of the region, he was eighth in the shot put and fourth in the discus at the 2006 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics.[8] In Macau he won his first international shot put medal, taking the bronze at the 2006 Lusophony Games.

In the 2007 season Julião improved his personal bests to 59.75 m for the discus and 17.81 m for the shot put.[9] He came fifth at the 2007 South American Championships in Athletics with his shot put effort and was runner-up to Lauro in the discus competition.[10] He was further down the rankings at the 2007 Pan American Games held in Rio de Janeiro, taking tenth place in the shot and sixth in the discus. He cleared eighteen metres in the shot put for the first time in May 2008, throwing 18.12 m at the South American GP meet in Uberlândia. He won both throwing national titles at the Brazilian Championships, but did not qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.[2] His sole international competition that year was the Ibero-American Championships, where he managed third in the discus.[8]

Julião threw a shot put best of 18.19 m to take the silver medal at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics – a performance that was better than that in his principal event, as he came third in the discus.[11][12] Repeating his feat from three years previously, he came third in the shot at the 2009 Lusophony Games.[13]

South American champion

He improved significantly as an athlete in the 2010 season. Under the advice of José Luis Martínez, a Spanish throwing coach, he had changed the focus of his training, moving away from building strength and towards technique-based methods.[14] Clearing sixty metres in the discus for the first time, he opened the year with a Brazilian record of 60.40 m, beating José Araujo de Souza's mark which has stood since 1990. He broke the record three more times that year, culminating in a throw of 63.09 m at the Meeting de Atletismo Madrid. He also became the national indoor record holder in the shot put with a throw of 17.51 m. There were no major international competitions for Julião that year, but he placed fifth in the shot and sixth in the discus at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships.[2] He improved his indoor shot put record to 17.94 m at the start of 2011. He was fourth in that event at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics, but performed well in the discus by taking his first ever continental gold medal with a Championship record throw of 62.72 m.[14] Still studying at university, his form peaked for the 2011 Summer Universiade held in Shenzhen. He broke the outdoor national record in the shot put with a throw of 18.78 m (coming ninth) and improved his discus mark to 63.30 m to leave the competition with the bronze medal.[15][16] His last appearance for Brazil that year came at the 2011 Pan American Games, where he won another discus bronze medal.[17]

Julião threw 65.41 m at the Grande Premio Brasil Caixa de Atletismo in May 2012, lifting him into second place on the all-time South American discus rankings behind Jorge Balliengo.[18]

Personal bests

Competition record
YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing  Brazil
2002 South American Youth Championships Asunción, Paraguay 3rd Shot put (5 kg) 16.80 m
2003 South American Junior Championships Guayaquil, Ecuador 2nd Discus throw (1.75 kg) 56.36 m
Pan American Junior Championships Bridgetown, Barbados 11th Shot put (6 kg) 16.29 m
4th Discus throw (1.75 kg) 54.93 m
2005 South American Championships Cali, Colombia 6th Shot put 16.97 m
4th Discus throw 56.51 m
2006 Ibero-American Championships Ponce, Puerto Rico 8th Shot put 16.89 m
3rd* Discus throw 52.36 m
South American Championships Tunja, Colombia 7th** Shot put 15.95 m
2nd Discus throw 57.02 m
Lusophony Games Macau 3rd Shot put 16.10 m
South American U23 Championships /
South American Games		 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2nd Discus throw 55.13 m
2007 South American Championships São Paulo, Brazil 5th Shot put 17.81 m
2nd Discus throw 56.53 m
Pan American Games Rio de Janeiro 10th Shot put 17.31 m
6th Discus throw 54.36 m
2008 Ibero-American Championships Iquique, Chile 6th Shot put 17.64 m
3rd Discus throw 56.77 m
2009 South American Championships Lima, Peru 2nd Shot put 18.19 m
3rd Discus throw 54.97 m
Lusophony Games Lisbon, Portugal 3rd Shot put 17.63 m
2010 Ibero-American Championships San Fernando, Spain 6th Shot put 18.57 m
5th Discus throw 57.91 m
2011 South American Championships Buenos Aires, Argentina 4th Shot put 17.88 m
1st Discus throw 62.72 m
Universiade Shenzhen, China 9th Shot put 18.78 m (NR)
3rd Discus throw 63.30 m (NR)
Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 9th Shot put 17.94 m
3rd Discus throw 61.70 m
2012 Ibero-American Championships Barquisimeto, Venezuela 2nd Discus throw 61.67 m
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 41st (q) Discus throw 56.20 m
2013 Universiade Kazan, Russia 11th Shot put 17.47 m
1st Discus throw 63.54 m
World Championships Moscow, Russia 22nd (q) Discus throw 59.36 m
2014 South American Games Santiago, Chile 2nd Discus throw 59.12 m
Ibero-American Championships São Paulo, Brazil 3rd Discus throw 59.75 m
Pan American Sports Festival Mexico City, Mexico 3rd Discus 59.40m A
2015 South American Championships Lima, Peru 2nd Discus throw 59.80 m
Pan American Games Toronto, Canada 2nd Discus throw 64.65 m
World Championships Beijing, China 21st (q) Discus throw 61.02 m
2016 Ibero-American Championships Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1st Discus throw 59.56 m
2017 South American Championships Asunción, Paraguay 4th Discus throw 55.89 m

*: At the 2006 Ibero-American Championships, Ronald Julião as initially 4th, but Argentinian Marcelo Pugliese was disqualified because of doping violations.
**: Competing out of competition.

National titles
  • Discus throw: 2005 to 2015 (11)
  • Shot put: 2008 to 2011 (4)

References
  1. Seleção Masculina. CBAT. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
  2. Perfil - Ronald Julião. BM&F Bovespa. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
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  4. 2003 South American Junior Championships Archived 2013-08-31 at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
  5. "2005 South American Championships Results" (PDF). Archived from the original on April 12, 2007. Retrieved 2012-05-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link). CONSUDATLE. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
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  9. Julião Ronald. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
  10. Biscayart, Eduardo (2007-06-09). 6.91m Long Jump victory for Maggi over Costa - South American Championships Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-19.
  11. Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-21). Adriano takes seventh South American Discus title – Day 2 report Archived 2012-09-21 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
  12. Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-06-22). Brazil repeats triumph at South American Championships – Day 3 report Archived 2009-08-26 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-06-24.
  13. LusofG Lisboa POR 12 - 13 July. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-08-20.
  14. Biscayart, Eduardo (2011-06-05). Windy 14.59m Triple Jump for Ibargüen in Buenos Aires – South American Champs, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-05.
  15. 2011 Summer Universiade Men's Shot Put Results Archived 2012-05-26 at the Wayback Machine. sz2011. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
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  17. Robinson, Javier Clavelo (2011-10-25). Silva upsets Murer to capture gold, Collins clocks 10.00 Games’ record in semis – Pan American Games, Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-31.
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