Arturo Barrios

Arturo Barrios

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Mexico
Pan American Games
	1987 Indianapolis	5000 metres
	1991 Havana	5000 metres
CAC Junior Championships (U20)
	1980 Nassau	1500 m
	1980 Nassau	5000 m
	1980 Nassau	10,000 m
Pan American Junior Championships
	1980 Sudbury	5000 m
	1980 Sudbury	2000 m s'chase

Arturo Barrios Flores (born December 12, 1962, in Mexico City) is a Mexican and American long-distance runner who set the 10,000 m world record in 1989, the one hour world record in 1991, and the 20,000 m world record en route to the one hour run world record.^[1]

Barrios finished in fifth place in the 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He is a former world record holder at the 10,000 m (27:08.23, set on August 18, 1989, at the Internationales Stadionfest (ISTAF) in Berlin, Germany). Barrios' record was not broken until 1993 when Richard Chelimo ran 27:07.91 in Stockholm. This mark stood as the North American record until May 1, 2010, and still stands as the national record of Mexico.^[2]

On March 30, 1991, Barrios set world records at one hour (21.101 km) and 20,000 m (56:55.6). These records stood until June 2007, when they were broken by Haile Gebrselassie. Barrios' 1991 performance makes him the first man ever to run a half-marathon distance in less than one hour; the first to do so in an actual half-marathon competition was Moses Tanui in 1993. That performance also still stands as the North American records and the Mexican record for those two events.^[3]

In 1992 he participated in the World Cup in Athletics, running the 5000 m with a time of 13:50.95, finishing in second place.

Between 1987 and 1990, Barrios won the San Francisco Bay to Breakers race, considered the largest footrace in the world, four consecutive times.^[4]

Barrios became a United States citizen in September 1994. Barrios graduated from Texas A&M University in 1985 where he competed in track and cross country for the Aggies. Barrios was inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.

The annual Arturo Barrios Invitational 5K and 10K road races in Chula Vista, California, launched in 1989,^[5] were held for the last time in 2006.^[6]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Mexico
1980	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	1500 m	3:49.8
			1st	5000 m	14:26.4
			1st	10000 m	31:20.4
1988	Ibero-American Championships	Ciudad de México, México	1st	5000m	14:10.72 A

• Arturo Barrios at World Athletics
• The history of the Hour run
• Youtube video of 10,000 m World Record