Waldemar Cotelo

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Waldemar Cotelo (born March 12, 1964 ) is a former Uruguayan athlete .

Career

The 1.73 meter tall marathon runner Cotelo was a member of the Uruguayan squad at the South American Games in Peru in 1990 and won the gold medal in the marathon. He ran a South American and Uruguayan record with 2:18:57 hours. On April 7, 1991, he ran his personal best on the marathon course with a time of 2:16:56 hours in Santa Rosa . In August of that year he took part with the Uruguayan team in the Pan American Games in Havana in 1991 and finished ninth with a run time of 2:29:30 hours. At the Ibero-American Championships in 1994 he was fifth over 10,000 meters with a run time of 29: 27.29 minutes. In the marathon, he also started as a member of the Uruguayan Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta . In the final ranking he finished 79th . In September 2001 he took part in the Ibero-American half-marathon championships organized by the Confederación Atlética del Uruguay (CAU), the Uruguayan Ministry of Sport and Youth and the Intendencia Municipal of Montevideo and came sixth as the best-placed Uruguayan. That year he won the Mar del Plata marathon . During his career, Cotelo also became Uruguayan marathon champion under the training direction of Gabriel Umpiérrez .

successes

  • 1st place South American Games: 1990 - marathon
  • Mar del Plata marathon winner: 2001
  • Uruguayan Champion - Marathon

Personal best

  • Marathon: 2:16:56 h, April 7, 1991, Santa Rosa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Waldemar Cotelo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on August 2, 2015
  2. ↑ SOUTH AMERICAN (ODESUR) GAMES on gbrathletics.com, accessed August 2, 2015
  3. ↑ IV JUEGOS SURAMERICANOS PERÚ 1990 ( Memento from March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on cou.org.uy, accessed on August 9, 2015
  4. ^ A b Waldemar Cotelo in the World Athletics database , accessed on August 2, 2015
  5. ↑ XI JUEGOS PANAMERICANOS LA HABANA 1991 on cou.org.uy, accessed on August 2, 2015 (PDF)
  6. ↑ EL ATLETISMO IBEROAMERICANO (Spanish) on rfea.es, accessed on August 11, 2015 (PDF)
  7. ↑ Waldemar Cotelo y Merceditas Cuevas fueron los mejores uruguayos (Spanish) in La República from September 24, 2001, accessed on August 2, 2015
  8. ↑ Mar del Plata Marathon on arrs.run, accessed on May 29, 2016
  9. ↑ Gabriel Umpiérrez - Antecedentes deportivos ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at atlecau.org.uy, accessed August 10, 2015 (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / atlecau.org.uy
personal data
SURNAME Cotelo, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1964