Paquillo Fernández

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Peláez.

Paquillo Fernández
Medal record
Fernández at the 2007 World Championships

Men’s Athletics
Representing Spain
Olympic Games
	2004 Athens	20 km walk
World Championships
	2003 Paris	20 km walk
	2005 Helsinki	20 km walk
	2007 Osaka	20 km walk
World Race Walking Cup
	2006 A Coruña	20 km walk
	2008 Cheboksary	20 km walk
European Championships
	2002 Munich	20 km walk
	2006 Gothenburg	20 km walk
	1998 Budapest	20 km walk

Francisco Javier Fernández Peláez, more known as Paquillo Fernández, (born on 6 March 1977 in Guadix, Province of Granada, Andalusia) is a retired Spanish race walker. He specialized in the 20 km race walk.

Biography

On 27 July 2008 he set a new 10-km race walk world record at the Spanish Championships in a time of 37:53.09.^[1]

Fernández was made ineligible for competitions for two years after he was found guilty of possessing performance-enhancing drugs in February 2010.^[2]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Spain
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	1st	10,000 m	40:38.25
1997	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	2nd	20 km	1:21:59
1998	European Race Walking Cup	Dudince, Slovakia	1st	20 km	1:20:31
1998	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	20 km	1:21:39
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	15th	20 km	1:27:23
1999	World Race Walking Cup	Mézidon-Canon, France	12th	20 km	1:22:47
2000	European Race Walking Cup	Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany	3rd	20 km	1:18:56
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	7th	20 km	1:21:01
2001	European Race Walking Cup	Dudince, Slovakia	4th	20 km	1:20:02
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	—	20 km	DNF
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	1st	20 km	1:18:37
2003	European Race Walking Cup	Cheboksary, Russia	1st	20 km	1:19:48
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	2nd	20 km	1:18:00
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	2nd	20 km	1:19:45
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	2nd	20 km	1:19:36
2005	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	1st	20 km	1:22:45
2006	European Championships	Göteborg, Sweden	1st	20 km	1:19:09
2006	World Race Walking Cup	A Coruña, Spain	1st	20 km	1:18:31
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	2nd	20 km	1:22:40
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, PR China	7th	20 km	1:20:32
2009	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	—	20 km	DNF

References

↑ "Fernandez sets 10 km Race Walk world record – The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games". En.beijing2008.cn. 28 July 2008. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
↑ Olympic race walker draws 2-year doping suspension. USA Today (27 April 2010). Retrieved27 April 2010.

External links

(Spanish) Official Page of Paquillo Fernández
Paquillo Fernández profile at IAAF

Records
Preceded by Julio René Martínez Roman Rasskazov	Men's 20km Walk World Record Holder 28 April 2002 – 23 August 2003	Succeeded by Jefferson Pérez

European Champions in men's 20 kilometres race walk

1958: Stan Vickers (GBR)
1962: Ken Matthews (GBR)
1966: Dieter Lindner (GDR)
1969: Paul Nihill (GBR)
1971: Nikolay Smaga (URS)
1974: Vladimir Golubnichy (URS)
1978: Roland Wieser (GDR)
1982: José Marín (ESP)
1986: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)
1990: Pavol Blažek (TCH)
1994: Mikhail Shchennikov (RUS)
1998: Ilya Markov (RUS)
2002–06: Paquillo Fernández (ESP)
2010: Stanislav Emelyanov (RUS)
2014: Miguel Ángel López (ESP)

Men's IAAF World Race Walking Cup champions

20 kilometres	1961–1963: Ken Matthews (GBR) 1965: Dieter Lindner (GDR) 1967: Nikolay Smaga (URS) 1970–1973: Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR) 1975: Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR) 1977–1979: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1981: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1985: José Marín (ESP) 1987: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1989: Frants Kostyukevich (URS) 1991: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1993: Daniel García (MEX) 1995: Li Zewen (CHN) 1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1999: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 2002–2004: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2006–2008: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2010: Wang Hao (CHN) 2012: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2014: Ruslan Dmytrenko (UKR)

50 kilometres	1961: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1963: István Havasi (HUN) 1965–1970: Christoph Höhne (GDR) 1973: Bernd Kannenberg (FRG) 1975: Yevgeniy Lyungin (URS) 1977: Raúl González (MEX) 1979: Martín Bermúdez (MEX) 1981–1983: Raúl González (MEX) 1985: Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 1987: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1989: Simon Baker (AUS) 1991–1993: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN) 1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ) 2002–2004: Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS) 2006–2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2010: Matej Tóth (SVK) 2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2014: Mikhail Ryzhov (RUS)

Mediterranean Games champions in men's racewalking

20 km	1951–1955^†: Pino Dordoni (ITA) 1959: Georges Attané (FRA) 1963: Not held 1967: Nicola De Vito (ITA) 1971: Pasquale Busca (ITA) 1975: Armando Zambaldo (ITA) 1979: Gérard Lelievre (FRA) 1983–1991: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1993: Not held 1997: Giovanni De Benedictis (ITA) 2001: Hatem Ghoula (TUN) 2005: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2009: Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)

50 km	1955: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1959: Not held 1963: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1967: Vittorio Visini (ITA) 1971: Abdon Pamich (ITA)

^† The 1951 and 1955 short racewalking events were over a 10,000 m track distance

World Best Year Performance in men's race walking

20 km walk	1980: Domingo Colín (MEX) 1981: Dave Smith (AUS) 1982: Willi Sawall (AUS) 1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1985: Dave Smith (AUS) 1986: Reima Salonen (FIN) 1987: Axel Noack (GDR) 1988: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1989: Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) 1990: Pavol Blažek (TCH) 1991: Aleksandr Pershin (URS) 1992: Stefan Johansson (SWE) 1993: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1994: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1995: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1996: Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR) 1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1998: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1999: Julio René Martínez (GUA) 2000: Roman Rasskazov (RUS) 2001: Dmitriy Yesipchuk (RUS) 2002: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2004: Vladimir Stankin (RUS) 2005: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2006: Li Gaobo (CHN) 2007: Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) 2008: Sergey Morozov (RUS) 2009: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 2010: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2011: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2012: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2013: Petr Trofimov (RUS) 2014: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN)

50 km walk	1980: José Marín (ESP) 1981: Uwe Dünkel (GDR) 1982: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1983: José Marín (ESP) 1984: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1985: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1986: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1987: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1988: Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 1989: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1990: Aleksandr Potashov (URS) 1991: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1992: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 1993: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1994: Valentí Massana (ESP) 1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN) 1996: Thierry Toutain (FRA) 1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1998: Andrey Plotnikov (RUS) 1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ) 2000: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) 2001: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2002: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2003: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2004: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2005: Yu Chaohong (CHN) 2006: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2007: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2009: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2010: Yohan Diniz (FRA) 2011: Sergey Bakulin (RUS) 2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2013: Robert Heffernan (IRL) 2014: Yohann Diniz (FRA)

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Paquillo Fernández

Biography

Achievements

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References

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