Ernesto Canto

Ernesto Canto ( Ernesto Canto Gudiño; born October 18, 1959 in Mexico City) is a former Mexican mountaineers and Olympic champion.

The first international success came at the IAAF World Race Walking Canto Cup 1979 in the 20 km walk with a 6th place. At the same event two years later he won in this discipline. At the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki he belonged from the beginning to a group of 8 -goers who took over the lead. After about 15 km, it broke away from this group and led until the finish, where he arrived with a lead of 10 seconds.

At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he fought a tough race with last -time Olympic champion Maurizio Damilano and ended it with the gold medal with a time of 1:23:19 sins, before coming also from Mexico Raúl González (Silver) and Maurizio Damilano (bronze). Only 11 days later he denied a new run in the 50- km Walk he won the tenth ended and his compatriot Raul Gonzalez.

After him his fortune and his career relied tended to an end. 1987 at the World Championships in Rome, he was disqualified after the first half of the track and at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, he was also disqualified with a triple in the lead, after 15 km. In 1991, he won the IAAF World Cup again silver, but at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, ​​he was only on the 29th place. A short time later, he announced his retirement from sports.