Luis_Fernando_López_(race_walker)

Luis Fernando López (racewalker)

Luis Fernando López (racewalker)

Colombian racewalker

This article is about the racewalker. For other uses, see Luis Fernando López (disambiguation).

Luis Fernando López Erazo (born 3 June 1979 in San Juan de Pasto, Nariño) is a Colombian race walker.[1][2]

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal family name is Erazo.

López was introduced to athletics by his father, who was also a competitive race walker.[3] His uncle, Marcelino Pastrana, was a former Colombian national champion at the 800 m, and later became his coach.[3]

When he won the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships, it was the first athletics world championship medal to be won by a Colombian.[3] He was declared the silver medalist in a photo finish at the 2017 Pan American Race Walking Cup 50 kilometers race walk, walking the same time as winner Claudio Villanueva, his personal best 3:51:35.[4]

Personal bests

Track walk

  • 10,000 m: 40:33.87 min – Italy Catania, 6 December 2003
  • 20,000 m: 1:20:53.6 hrs (ht) – Peru Lima, 21 June 2009

Road walk

  • 10 km: 38:10 min – China Beijing, 18 September 2010
  • 20 km: 1:20:03 hrs – Germany Berlin, 15 August 2009
  • 50 km: 3:51:35 hrs – Puerto Rico Lima, 14 May 2017

Achievements

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References

  1. [1]
    Biografía - LOPEZ Luis Fernando (in Spanish), retrieved May 16, 2014
  2. [2]
    Luis Fernando marcha hacia el podio (in Spanish), La Patria, Bogotá, retrieved May 16, 2014
  3. [3]
    Clavelo, Javier; César Sandoval, Julio (27 July 2012). "Focus on Athletes - LUIS FERNANDO LOPEZ". www.iaaf.org. IAAF. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  4. [4]
    "[Resultados] Final de fotografía dio a Ecuador la victoria en los 50kms. [sic]". Facebook. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
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