2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120171We prove that distortion of a knotted curve in $\R^3$ is great than 4.76. This improves a result obtained by John M. Sullivan and Elizabeth Denne in \cite{DS}.8 pages, 3 figuresGeometric Topology57M25New lower bound for the distortion of a knotted curvetext