Luis Fernando López (racewalker)

Colombian racewalker

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Luis Fernando López

Personal information
Full name| Luis Fernando López Erazo
Born|  (1979-06-03) June 3, 1979 (age 43)
San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Height| 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight| 60 kg (130 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
Representing  Colombia
World Championship
| 2011 Daegu | 20 km
Bolivarian Games
| 2009 Sucre | 20 km

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname 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 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]

## Contents

* 1 Personal bests
* 1.1 Track walk
* 1.2 Road walk
* 2 Achievements
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Personal bests[edit]

### Track walk[edit]

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

### Road walk[edit]

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

## Achievements[edit]

Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes

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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 | A 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 | 1st  | 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[edit]

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. ^ a b c Clavelo, Javier; César Sandoval, Julio (27 July 2012). "Focus on Athletes - LUIS FERNANDO LOPEZ". www.iaaf.org. IAAF. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
4. ^ "[Resultados] Final de fotografía dio a Ecuador la victoria en los 50kms. [sic]". Facebook. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

## External links[edit]

* Luis Fernando López at World Athletics
* Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luis Fernando López". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
* Tilastopaja biography

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Central American and Caribbean Games Champions in Men's 20 km Walk

* 1966: 10 km walk (track)
* 1970 – present: 20 km walk (road)

* 1966: José Pedraza (MEX)
* 1970: Eladio Campos (MEX)
* 1974: Raúl González (MEX)
* 1978: Daniel Bautista (MEX)
* 1982 – 1990: Ernesto Canto (MEX)
* 1993 – 1998: Daniel García (MEX)
* 2002: Alejandro López (MEX)
* 2006: Luis Fernando López (COL)
* 2010: Eder Sánchez (MEX)
* 2014: Horacio Nava (MEX)
* 2018: Éider Arévalo (COL)

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