Birth Date: | 8 May 1975 |
Pablo Olmedo Castañón (born May 8, 1975 in Mexico City) is a middle and long-distance runner from Mexico.
He twice won the gold medal in the men's 5.000 metres at the Central American and Caribbean Games, and competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Representing | ||||||
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1994 | Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 1500 m | 3:50.2 |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 5000 m | 14:24.4 | |||
World Junior Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 4th | 5000 m | 13:55.19 | ||
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 15th | 5000 m | 14:05.59 | |
1998 | Ibero-American Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5000 m | 13:35.21 |
Central American and Caribbean Games | Maracaibo, Venezuela | 3rd | 1500 m | 3:48.19 | ||
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 5000 m | 14:01.85 | |||
1999 | World Championships | Seville, Spain | 10th | 5000 m | 13:27.74 | |
2000 | Ibero-American Championships | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | 5000 m | 13:44.44 |
Olympic Games | Sydney, Australia | 12th (h) | 5000 m | 13:40.34 | ||
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 12th (h) | 5000 m | 14:02.90 | |
2002 | Central American and Caribbean Games | San Salvador, El Salvador | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 5000 m | 14:07.82 |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10000 m | 28:36.67 | |||
2003 | North American Men's Marathon Relay Championships | Akron, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Marathon relay | 2:05:30 |
Pan American Games | Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | 4th | 10000 m | 29:41.31 | ||
2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 46th | Marathon | 2:33:40 |