Alejandro Cardenas
| Alejandro Cárdenas medal table |
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| World championships | ||
| bronze | 1999 Seville | 400 m |
| Indoor world championships | ||
| bronze | 1999 Maebashi | 400 m |
| Pan American Games | ||
| bronze | 1999 Winnipeg | 400 m |
| bronze | 1995 Mar del Plata | 4 × 100 m |
| bronze | 1995 Mar del Plata | Decathlon |
Alejandro Cárdenas (born October 4, 1974 in Hermosillo ) is a former Mexican athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run .
At the beginning of his career he also competed in the decathlon . At the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata in 1995 , he won the bronze medal in this discipline with 7387 points. He was also used there in the Mexican 4 x 100 meter relay , which also won a bronze medal in 39.77 s. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona he was used in the relay, which was eliminated in the semi-finals.
From 1996 he began to specialize increasingly in the 400-meter run. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Barcelona and at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 1997 in Paris , he reached the semi-finals over this distance. At the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 , however, he was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Cárdenas achieved his first international podium placement over 400 m at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 by winning the bronze medal in 46.02 s. In the same year he finished third in the Central America and Caribbean Games. The greatest success of his career was celebrated at the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville , when he won another bronze medal in a personal best of 44.31 s, which was also a Mexican national record . Shortly before, he had achieved the same placement at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg .
He also took part in the 400-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Both times he reached the semi-finals. In his last international appearance at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , however, he failed already in the preliminary round.
Alejandro Cárdenas is 1.86 m tall and weighed 73 kg when he was active. He is married to the high jumper Romary Rifka .
Top performances
- 200 m : 20.63 s, May 23, 1998, Mexico City
- 400 m: 44.31 s, 26 August 1999, Seville
- Decathlon: 7614 points, May 11, 1996, Medellín
Web links
- Alejandro Cárdenas in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Alejandro Cárdenas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cárdenas, Alejandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th October 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hermosillo |