Luis Fernando López (race walker)

Luis Fernando López
Personal information
Full name Luis Fernando López Erazo
Born (1979-06-03) June 3, 1979
San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Country  Colombia
Sport Men's Athletics
Event(s) Racewalking
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals 2004 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
Medal record
Men's Racewalking
Competitor for  Colombia
World Championship
2011 Daegu 20 km
Bolivarian Games
2009 Sucre 20 km
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is López and the second or maternal family name is Erazo.

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

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 bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships, it was the first athletics world championship medal to be won by a Colombian.[3]

Personal bests

Track walk

Road walk

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing the  Colombia
1998 South American Junior Championships Córdoba, Argentina 2nd 10,000 m 44:18.66
2001 South American Race Walking Championships/
Pan American Race Walking Cup		 Cuenca, Ecuador — 20 km road walk DQ
2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup Chula Vista, California, United States 9th 20 km road walk 1:27:15
Pan American Games Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 4th 20 km 1:27:32
2004 South American Race Walking Championships Los Ángeles, Chile 2nd 20 km road walk 1:22:52
World Race Walking Cup Naumburg, Germany 38th 20 km road walk 1:24:00
Olympic Games Athens, Greece 24th 20 km 1:26:34
2005 Pan American Race Walking Cup Lima, Peru 2nd 20 km 1:20:26
South American Championships Cali, Colombia 3rd 20,000 m 1:23:43.2
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 12th 20 km 1:22:28
Bolivarian Games Armenia, Colombia 4th 20 km road walk 1:25:01
2006 South American Race Walking Championships Cochabamba, Bolivia 2nd 20 km road walk 1:27:16
World Race Walking Cup La Coruña, Spain — 20 km road walk DQ
Central American and Caribbean Games Cartagena, Colombia 1st 20 km 1:24:20
2007 Pan American Race Walking Cup Balneário Camboriú, Brazil 3rd 20 km 1:25:25
Pan American Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 20 km DQ
World Championships Osaka, Japan 22nd 20 km 1:27:22
2008 South American Race Walking Championships Cuenca, Ecuador 1st 20 km road walk 1:24:38
World Race Walking Cup Cheboksary, Russia 23rd 20 km road walk 1:22:25
Olympic Games Beijing, PR China 9th 20 km 1:20:59
2009 Pan American Race Walking Cup San Salvador, El Salvador 1st 20 km 1:22:18
South American Championships Lima, Peru 1st 20,000 m 1:20:53.6
World Championships Berlin, Germany 5th 20 km 1:20:03
Bolivarian Games Sucre, Bolivia 1st 20 km 1:28.09 A
2010 World Race Walking Cup Chihuahua, México 4th 20 km road walk 1:23:11
Central American and Caribbean Games Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 2nd 20 km 1:22:55
2011 Pan American Race Walking Cup Envigado, Colombia 1st 20 km road walk 1:25:04
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 3rd 20 km 1:20:38
Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 3rd 20 km 1:22.51
2012 World Race Walking Cup Saransk, Russia 49th 20 km road walk 1:26:14
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom – 20 km DQ
2013 Pan American Race Walking Cup Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala 21st 20 km road walk 1:34:13
World Championships Moscow, Russia — 20 km road walk DNF
2014 World Race Walking Challenge Chihuahua, México 12th 20 km road walk 1:26:07
World Race Walking Cup Taicang, China 34th 50 km road walk 4:05:14
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 20th 50 km 3:55:43

References

  1. ↑ Biografía - LOPEZ Luis Fernando (in Spanish), retrieved May 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Luis Fernando marcha hacia el podio (in Spanish), La Patria, Bogotá, retrieved May 16, 2014
  3. 1 2 3 Clavelo, Javier; César Sandoval, Julio (27 July 2012). "Focus on Athletes - LUIS FERNANDO LOPEZ". www.iaaf.org. IAAF. Retrieved 11 November 2014.

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