Luis Fernando López
Personal information
Full nameLuis Fernando López Erazo
Born (1979-06-03) June 3, 1979
San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Height1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country Colombia
SportMen's Athletics
EventRacewalking
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals2004 Summer Olympics
2008 Summer Olympics
Medal record
Men's Racewalking
Representing  Colombia
World Championship
Gold medal – first place2011 Daegu 20 km
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place2009 Sucre 20 km

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]

Personal bests

Track walk

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

Road walk

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

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
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

  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.
  4. ↑ "[Resultados] Final de fotografía dio a Ecuador la victoria en los 50kms. [sic]". Facebook. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
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