Luis Hernández (athlete)
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Born | August 26, 1955 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. | ||||||||||||||
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Luis Ceferino Hernández Morales (born August 26, 1955) is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico. He claimed the gold medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in the Men's 10,000 metres, and represented his native country the following year at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, Canada.
Running for the BYU Cougars track and field team, Hernández won the 1977 3 miles at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships in a time of 13:20.55.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Clinger finishes runner-up in 5,000-meters at NCAA Indoor Nationals". BYU Athletics - Official Athletics Website - BYU Cougars. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Luis Hernández". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Mexican male long-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Mexico
- Sportspeople from Veracruz
- People from Xalapa
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Mexico
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1975 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- 20th-century Mexican people
- NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships winners
- BYU Cougars men's track and field athletes
- Mexican athletics biography stubs