Luis Fernando López (racewalker)

Luis Fernando López
Personal information
Full name	Luis Fernando López Erazo
Born	June 3, 1979 (age 45); San Juan de Pasto, Nariño, Colombia
Height	1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Colombia
Sport	Athletics
Event	Racewalking
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2004 Summer Olympics; 2008 Summer Olympics; 2012 Summer Olympics; 2016 Summer Olympics;
Medal record
Representing Colombia
Men's athletics
World Championship
Pan American Games
Bolivarian Games

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

Road walk

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

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
2003	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
2010	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
2012	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
2013	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	—	20 km road walk	DNF
2014	World Race Walking Challenge	Chihuahua, México	12th	20 km road walk	1:26:07
2014	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

^ Biografía - LOPEZ Luis Fernando (in Spanish), retrieved May 16, 2014
^ Luis Fernando marcha hacia el podio (in Spanish), La Patria, Bogotá, retrieved May 16, 2014
^ ^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.
^ "[Resultados] Final de fotografía dio a Ecuador la victoria en los 50kms. [sic]". Facebook. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2018.

External links

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

[guadalajara_01-1] Biografía - LOPEZ Luis Fernando (in Spanish), retrieved May 16, 2014

[patria_01-2] Luis Fernando marcha hacia el podio (in Spanish), La Patria, Bogotá, retrieved May 16, 2014

[:0-3] 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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