Erick Barrondo

Erick Barrondo
Erick Barrondo (left)
Full name	Erick Bernabé Barrondo García
nation	Guatemala
birthday	June 14, 1991
place of birth	Aldea Chiyuc ,  Guatemala
size	1.72 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
discipline	Go
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games silver 2012 London 20 km  Pan American Games gold 2011 Guadalajara 20 km silver 2015 Toronto 50 km Central America and Caribbean Games gold 2014 Xalapa 50 km Juegos Bolivarianos gold 2013 Trujillo 20 km Pan American Race Walking Cup silver 2011 Envigado 20 km gold 2015 Arica 20 km bronze 2015 Arica 20 km (team)
last change: August 9, 2015

Erick Bernabé Barrondo García (born June 14, 1991 in Aldea Chiyuc , San Cristóbal Verapaz ) is a Guatemalan walker .

Athletic career

Barrondo was originally a long-distance runner and only started walking after an injury, which he used as a rehabilitation measure. In the end, he stayed true to this discipline and placed himself under the care of Rigoberto Medina, who had also looked after Cristina López , the Salvadoran winner over 20 kilometers at the 2007 Pan American Games .

Internationally, he made his first appearance in March 2011 at the Pan American Race Walking Cup in Medellín , where he secured second place. During the IAAF World Race Walking Challenge of the same year, Barrondo achieved a 13th place in Sesto San Giovanni and was vieter in Dublin . Due to the latter performance, he was called to the small two-man squad (together with Jamy Franco , another walker) in his home country for the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea . There he finished tenth over the 20 kilometer distance in August. Almost exactly two months later, he won the Pan American Games in Guadalajara .

Afterwards Barrondo qualified for in London discharged 2012 Summer Olympics . There he won - quite unexpectedly for experts - the silver medal over 20 kilometers behind the Chinese Chen Ding . It was the first ever Olympic medal for Guatemala and afterwards he said: "If someone swaps his rifle or knife for a pair of sports shoes tomorrow to train, I would be the happiest person in the world." He won the 50 kilometer race disqualified after 40 kilometers lying in ninth position.

The same happened to him at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow, when he was taken out of the race in the leading group over 20 kilometers two kilometers from the finish.

Personal best

distance	place	time	date
10 kilometer	Guatemala City	40: 38.74 min	November 19, 2010
20 kilometers	Lugano	1: 18.25 h	March 18, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic Top 30 - Curiosities, Eklats, Bad luck , on August 13, 2012 on welt.de ( Die Welt ) , accessed on August 16, 2012.
2. ↑ Russians strike back with supreme discipline! , on August 11, 2012 from HDsports.at , accessed on August 11, 2012.

Web links

• Erick Barrondo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Erick Barrondo in the Databank World Athletics (English)