Jorge Gonzalez (runner)
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- For other persons named Jorge Gonzalez, see Jorge Gonzalez (disambiguation).
Jorge "Peco" Gonzalez (born c. 1953) is a famous Puerto Rican marathon runner. He has won many races and competed in many international events, such as the Central American and Caribbean Games and the Olympic Games.
Gonzalez was very famous in Puerto Rico, where people know him as Peco (after Pecos Bill, the fastest cowboy to ever live). Puerto Ricans had high hopes on him, specially at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, but he failed to win any Olympic medals.
The height of his fame was during the 1980s, when he would do national tours across Puerto Rico, to sign autographs at department stores and be featured on television commercials.
Gonzalez was born in Utuado, where he still lives. There is a stadium named Peco Gonzalez Stadium in Utuado.
