![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Until that point, no one had bettered 1:20 for the discipline but Canto clocked 1:18:40 – 50 seconds faster than the world record for 20km on the roads at that time – and won by two minutes. And one month after that, he finished second at the World Race Walking Cup in 1:19:41, moving to third on the world all-time list at that stage.Įrnesto Canto on the podium at the 1984 Olympic Games (AFP / Getty Images) © CopyrightĪt the 1984 Softeland Grand Prix in Fana, Canto set a world record on the track for the 20,000m race walk. Just 17 days after the World Championships, Canto won the Pan-American Games title in Caracas. Canto duelled with Czech race walker Jozef Pribilinec in the closing stages and managed to pull clear before entering the stadium, eventually winning by 10 seconds in 1:20:49. The lead pack had been reduced from eight to four men with three kilometres to go. Canto’s compatriot Raul Gonzalez made it a Mexican double by winning the 50km.Ĭanto became the inaugural world champion for the 20km race walk in Helsinki in 1983. His first major senior success came in 1981 at the World Race Walking Cup in Valencia where he triumphed in 1:23:52 to beat Olympic bronze medallist Roland Wieser of East Germany. He went on to win various continental and regional titles as an U18 and U20 athlete. World Athletics is deeply saddened to hear that Mexico’s 1984 Olympic 20km race walk champion and 1983 world champion Ernesto Canto died on Friday (20) at the age of 61 from pancreatic and liver cancer.Ĭanto is one of just three Mexican athletes to win an Olympic gold medal and was one of the prominent figures during Mexico’s golden era of race walking.īorn in Mexico City in October 1959, Canto took up race walking at a relatively young age and won his first national U18 title at 13. ![]()
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