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Leryn Franco: Hottest Athlete 2013
 Leryn
Franco was fourth in South American Championships 2013 held at Cartagena,
Colombia with javelin throw of 54.79 metres. She was second at Ibero-American
Championships 2012 held at Barquisimeto, Venezuela with javelin throw of 57.77
meters (NR).
Leryn Dahiana Franco Steneri was born on 1st March 1982 in Asunci�n. She is a
Paraguayan model and athlete. She specializes in the javelin throw and became an
Internet sensation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her personal best throw is
57.77 metres, achieved in June 2012 in Barquisimeto. She is perhaps more famous
for her beauty and figure and modelling than athletic ability and has appeared,
most notably, in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Raised in the capital Asunci�n, she broke the national records for the under-17
age group in 1998 for both the javelin and triple jump. After winning bronze
medals in 1999 and 2000, Franco won the South American Junior Championship
javelin title in 2001. Franco was the South American under-23 champion in 2004.
Her performances at the World level are 24th at the World Championship in 2003
and 42nd out of 45 at the Athens Olympics in 2004. Although she set a personal
best in 2007, she finished 12th (last) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de
Janeiro. She competed in Beijing Olympics in 2008 and London Olympics in 2012.
Franco combines her athletics with a career as a model and beauty pageant
contestant. In 2006 she was runner-up Miss Universo Paraguay 2006. She has taken
part in the Miss Bikini of the Universe pageant. Franco has her own calendar,
which was photographed in 2007 by Martin Crespo.
Leryn Franco is an athlete, Tv presenter, and model. She is also a bachelor in
Business Administration.Born in Paraguay, on March 1st, 1982, Leryn is currently
the only Paraguayan athlete who attended 3 Olympic Games: Athens 2004, Beijing
2008, and London 2012. While competing, she became a South American champion in
the minor, juvenile, and under-23 categories. She also became a Panamerican
Juniors vice champion. She has been holding the javelin throw absolute record in
her country for over twelve years in a row.
For two years, she lived in Italy, where she reached second place at the Italian
championship. In 2010, she took part at several international events. Through
her outstanding performances, Paraguay earned 3 gold and 2 silver medals at the
Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, and Montevideo Grand Prixes. In addition to that,
she reached the top at the Argentinian Championship. However, she could not
participate at the Iberoamerican Games in Spain due to an injury in her elbow.
In June 2011, she earned a silver medal and set a new Paraguayan record at the
South American Athletic Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A month later, she obtained a silver medal at the Venezuelan competition Juegos
del Alba. Her performance, which surpassed the base mark needed to enter the
Panamerican Games by 6 meters, helped her set another Paraguay record. She
attended that event while convalescing from swine flu, a disease she caught 20
days before.
 On June 8, 2012, after winning two gold medals at the South American GP held in
Montevideo and Buenos Aires, and a silver medal at the Colombia GP, Leryn got a
silver medal at the Ibero-American Athletics Championship. Not only did she set
a new record for Paraguay (57.77 meters), but she was also allowed to take part
in the Olympic Games in London.At the moment, she is represented by Jey Ritter
Exceptional People Management, a Paraguayan agency that also works with several
partnerships from all over the world.
She may have finished 51st place in the javelin throw at the London 2012
Olympics, but Leryn Franco is still making her mark. The 30-year-old is arguably
more famed for her fantastic figure than her athletic ability, and is sometimes
referred to as the 'hottest Olympian'. And as she took to the beach in Miami on
Monday, it wasn�t hard to see why.
The Paraguayan beauty was enjoying a relaxing day soaking up the Florida
sunshine. She sported a mismatched two-piece which showed off her fit but curvy
form as she worked on her tan. Leryn teamed a lime green triangle top with a
pair of teeny tiny leopard print bottoms. After a day of sunning herself, the
gorgeous athlete was seen heading home hand in hand with a mystery man. Leryn
had slipped a rainbow-coloured kaftan over her bikini before leaving the beach.
The javelin thrower combines her athletics career with modelling and competing
in beauty pageants.
As well as appearing in Sports Illustrated, she was runner-up Miss Universo
Paraguay 2006 and competed in the Miss Bikini of the Universe pageant. Leryn
became famous thanks to the Olympic Games in Beijing, China in 2008. That year,
Leryn was reportedly the second most-searched Olympian, after Michael Phelps,
according to Yahoo.
Dated 17 August 2013
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