Rodolfo Gómez
Rodolfo Gómez Orozco (born October 30, 1950 in Mexico City) is a retired long-distance runner, who was one of the leading runners represented from Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s. He won the Tokyo Marathon (1981), the IAAF Citizen Golden Marathon in Athens (1982), the Rotterdam Marathon (1982), the Oregon Marathon (1982), the Pittsburgh Marathon (1984) and the Mexico City Marathon (1987). He gained prominence on American television in 1982 when he set his Personal Record of 2:09:33 while being the primary foil to Alberto Salazar's third victory in a row at the New York Marathon.
Gómez represented Mexico at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1980. Later on he became an athletics coach, guiding runners like Andrés Espinosa, Germán Silva, Benjamín Paredes, Adriana Fernández, Isaac García, Martín Pitayo, and Isidro Rico.
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- 1926: Eduardo Quintanar (MEX)
- 1930: Felipe Jardines (MEX)
- 1935: Juan Morales (MEX)
- 1938: Agustín Romero (MEX)
- 1946: Mateo Flores (GUA)
- 1950: Luis Velásquez (GUA)
- 1954: Cruz Serrano (MEX)
- 1959: Josafath Hernández (MEX)
- 1962: Eligio Galicia (MEX)
- 1966: Álvaro Mejía (COL)
- 1970: Juan Martínez (MEX)
- 1974: Domingo Tibaduiza (COL)
- 1978: Rodolfo Gómez (MEX)
- 1982: Aldo Allen (CUB)
- 1986: Francisco Pacheco (MEX)
- 1990 – 1993: Dionicio Cerón (MEX)
- 1998: Germán Beltrán (VEN)
- 2002: Pablo Olmedo (MEX)
- 2006: David Galván (MEX)
- 2010: Juan Carlos Romero (MEX)
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