Raúl González (athlete)

For other people named Raúl González, see Raúl González (disambiguation).

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

Raúl González
Personal information

Born	(1952-02-29) February 29, 1952 Rancho Las Lajas, China, Nuevo León, Mexico
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport	Race walking

Raúl González Rodríguez (born February 29, 1952) is a retired Mexican race walker. He set the world record in the 50-kilometer racewalk twice in 1978 (3:45:52 and 3:41:20). As of October 2011, it still was the North American record.

Gonzalez won the 50 km racewalk at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in 1977, 1981 and 1983. He also won a silver medal in 20 km and a gold in 50 km at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Gonzalez set an Olympic record winning the 50-kilometer event at 3 hours, 47 minutes, 26 seconds.^[1]^[2]

Gonzalez was a member of the national racewalk team that received Mexico's National Sports Prize in 1977; he received the prize individually in 1978.^[3] From 1988 to 1994 he was Director of National Sports Commission of Mexico, and from 2002 to 2004 executive president of the Mexican Professional Baseball League.^[4]

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing Mexico
1971	Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics	Kingston, Jamaica	3rd	10 km
1974	Central American and Caribbean Games	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1st	20 km
1977	World Race Walking Cup	Milton Keynes, England	1st	50 km
1978	Central American and Caribbean Games	Medellín, Colombia	2nd	20 km
		Mexico City, Mexico	World record	50 km
		Poděbrady, Czechoslovakia	World record	50 km
1979	Pan American Games	San Juan, Puerto Rico	1st	50 km
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	6th	20 km
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	DNF	50 km
1981	World Race Walking Cup	Valencia, Spain	1st	50 km
1981	Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	2nd	20 km
1982	Central American and Caribbean Games	Havana, Cuba	2nd	20 km
1982	Central American and Caribbean Games	Havana, Cuba	1st	50 km
1983	World Race Walking Cup	Bergen, Norway	1st	50 km
	Pan American Games	Caracas, Venezuela	2nd	20 km
	Pan American Games	Caracas, Venezuela	1st	50 km
	World Championships in Athletics	Helsinki, Finland	9th	20 km
	World Championships in Athletics	Helsinki, Finland	5th	50 km
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	2nd	20 km
1984	Olympic Games	Los Angeles, United States	1st	50 km
1987	Pan American Games	Indianapolis, United States	2nd	50 km
1987	World Championships in Athletics	Rome, Italy	11th	50 km

References

↑ Raúl González. sports-reference
↑ HISTORY OF RACE WALKING IN THE OLYMPICS. Eracewalk.com. Retrieved on 2014-08-13.
↑ Raúl González Rodríguez. Deporte.org.mx. Retrieved on 2014-08-13.
↑ Raul Gonzalez. Speakersmexico.com (1949-06-03). Retrieved on 2014-08-13.

Olympic champions in men's 50 kilometres walk

1932: Tommy Green (GBR)
1936: Harold Whitlock (GBR)
1948: John Ljunggren (SWE)
1952: Pino Dordoni (ITA)
1956: Norman Read (NZL)
1960: Don Thompson (GBR)
1964: Abdon Pamich (ITA)
1968: Christoph Höhne (GDR)
1972: Bernd Kannenberg (FRG)
1980: Hartwig Gauder (GDR)
1984: Raúl González (MEX)
1988: Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS)
1992: Andrey Perlov (EUN)
1996: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
2000: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
2004: Robert Korzeniowski (POL)
2008: Alex Schwazer (ITA)
2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS)

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)

Pan American Games champions in men's 50 km walk

1951: Sixto Ibáñez (ARG) 1955–1963: Not held 1967–1971: Larry Young (USA) 1975: Not held 1979–1983: Raúl González (MEX) 1987: Martín Bermúdez (MEX) 1991–1995: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1999: Joel Sánchez (MEX) 2003: Germán Sánchez (MEX) 2007: Xavier Moreno (ECU) 2011: Horacio Nava (MEX) 2015: Andrés Chocho (ECU)

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)

Records
Preceded by Bernd Kannenberg	Men's 50km Walk World Record Holder April 23, 1978 – March 13, 1983	Succeeded by Josep Marín

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