# Ernesto Canto

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ernesto_Canto
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ernesto_Canto.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Canto
> Source revision: 1341306368
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Mexican race walker (1959–2020)

Ernesto Canto Personal information Born (1959-10-18)18 October 1959 Mexico City, Mexico Died 20 November 2020(2020-11-20) (aged 61) Mexico City, Mexico Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Weight 60 kg (132 lb) Sport Country Mexico Sport Athletics Event Racewalking Updated on 25 July 2013

In this [Spanish name](/source/Spanish_name), the first or paternal [surname](/source/Surname) is *Canto* and the second or maternal family name is *Gudiño*.

**Ernesto Canto Gudiño** (18 October 1959 – 20 November 2020) was a Mexican [race walker](/source/Race_walking) who mainly competed in the 20 kilometer walk.

He competed for Mexico at the [1984 Summer Olympics](/source/1984_Summer_Olympics) held in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles), United States, where he won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometer walk event.

Canto died in 2020 at the age of 61 from pancreatic and liver cancer.[1][2]

## Personal bests

- 20 km: **1:19:37 hrs** – [Xalapa](/source/Xalapa), Spain, 5 April 1987

- 50 km: **3:52:16 hrs** – [Prague](/source/Prague), Czech Republic, 12 April 1982

## Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes Representing Mexico 1974 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) Maracaibo, Venezuela 1st 10,000 m 48:34.5 1976 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) Xalapa, Mexico 1st 10,000 m 46:18.6 A 1981 World Race Walking Cup Valencia, Spain 1st 20 km 1:23:52 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games Havana, Cuba 1st 20 km 1:29:22 1983 World Championships Helsinki, Finland 1st 20 km 1:20:49 Pan American Games Caracas, Venezuela 1st 20 km 1:28:12 World Race Walking Cup Bergen, Norway 2nd 20 km 1:19:41 1984 Olympic Games Los Angeles, United States 1st 20 km 1:23:13 10th 50 km 4:07:59 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic 1st 20 km 1:26:25 Pan American Race Walking Cup Saint-Leonard, Canada — 20 km DNF 1987 World Indoor Championships Indianapolis, United States 3rd 5000 m 18:38.71 World Race Walking Cup New York City, United States 5th 20 km 1:20:35 Pan American Games Indianapolis, United States – 20 km DNF World Championships Rome, Italy – 20 km DSQ 1988 Ibero-American Championships Mexico City, Mexico 2nd 20 km 1:24:29.0 A Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea — 20 km DSQ Pan American Race Walking Cup Mar del Plata, Argentina 2nd 20 km 1:25:15 1990 Pan American Race Walking Cup Xalapa, Mexico 1st 20 km 1:21:46 Goodwill Games Seattle, United States 1st 20,000 m 1:23:13.12 Central American and Caribbean Games Mexico City, Mexico 1st 20 km 1:23:52 1991 Pan American Games Havana, Cuba 5th 20 km 1:28:22 1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 29th 20 km 1:33:51

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Muere Ernesto Canto, medallista olímpico mexicano, tras perder la batalla contra el cáncer"](https://www.marca.com/claro-mx/juegos-olimpicos/2020/11/20/5fb826aae2704eb6548b45e3.html). 20 November 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Ernesto Canto fallece a los 61 años"](https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/universal-deportes/mas-deportes/ernesto-canto-fallece-los-61-anos). 20 November 2020.

## External links

- [Ernesto Canto](https://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14346014) at [World Athletics](/source/World_Athletics)

- [Ernesto Canto](https://www.olympics.com/en/athletes/ernesto-canto-gudino) at [Olympics.com](/source/International_Olympic_Committee)

- [Ernesto Canto](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/73477) at [Olympedia](/source/Olympedia)

- [Ernesto Canto](https://intersportstats.com/athletes/3000011332) at InterSportStats

v t e Olympic champions in men's 20 km race walk 1956: Leonid Spirin (URS) 1960: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) 1964: Ken Matthews (GBR) 1968: Volodymyr Holubnychy (URS) 1972: Peter Frenkel (GDR) 1976: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1980: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1988: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1992: Daniel Plaza (ESP) 1996: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2000: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2004: Ivano Brugnetti (ITA) 2008: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 2012: Chen Ding (CHN) 2016: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2020: Massimo Stano (ITA) 2024: Brian Pintado (ECU)

v t e World champions in men's 20 km race walk 1983: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1987: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1991: Maurizio Damilano (ITA) 1993: Valentí Massana (ESP) 1995: Michele Didoni (ITA) 1997: Daniel García (MEX) 1999: Ilya Markov (RUS) 2001: Roman Rasskazov (RUS) 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2005: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2007: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2009: Wang Hao (CHN) 2011: Luis Fernando López (COL) 2013: Chen Ding (CHN) 2015: Miguel Ángel López (ESP) 2017: Éider Arévalo (COL) 2019: Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 2022: Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 2023: Álvaro Martín (ESP) 2025: Caio Bonfim (BRA)

v t e Men's IAAF World Race Walking Cup champions 20 kilometres 1961–1963: Ken Matthews (GBR) 1965: Dieter Lindner (GDR) 1967: Nikolay Smaga (URS) 1970–1973: Hans-Georg Reimann (GDR) 1975: Karl-Heinz Stadtmüller (GDR) 1977–1979: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1981: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1985: José Marín (ESP) 1987: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1989: Frants Kostyukevich (URS) 1991: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1993: Daniel García (MEX) 1995: Li Zewen (CHN) 1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1999: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 2002–2004: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2006–2008: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2010: Wang Hao (CHN) 2012: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2014: Ruslan Dmytrenko (UKR) 2016: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2018: Koki Ikeda (JPN) 50 kilometres 1961: Abdon Pamich (ITA) 1963: István Havasi (HUN) 1965–1970: Christoph Höhne (GDR) 1973: Bernd Kannenberg (FRG) 1975: Yevgeniy Lyungin (URS) 1977: Raúl González (MEX) 1979: Martín Bermúdez (MEX) 1981–1983: Raúl González (MEX) 1985: Hartwig Gauder (GDR) 1987: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1989: Simon Baker (AUS) 1991–1993: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN) 1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ) 2002–2004: Aleksey Voyevodin (RUS) 2006–2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2010: Matej Tóth (SVK) 2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2014: Mikhail Ryzhov (RUS) 2016: Jared Tallent (AUS) 2018: Hirooki Arai (JPN)

v t e Pan American Champions in men's 10 km and 20 km race walk 10 km 1951: Henry Laskau (USA) 20 km 1963: Alex Oakley (CAN) 1967: Ron Laird (USA) 1971: Goetz Klopfer (USA) 1975: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1979: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1983: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1987: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1991: Héctor Moreno (COL) 1995: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1999: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2007: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2011: Érick Barrondo (GUA) 2015: Evan Dunfee (CAN) 2019: Brian Pintado (ECU) 2023: David Hurtado (ECU)

v t e Central American and Caribbean Games champions in men's 20 km walk 1966: 10 km walk (track) 1970 – present: 20 km walk (road) 1966: José Pedraza (MEX) 1970: Eladio Campos (MEX) 1974: Raúl González (MEX) 1978: Daniel Bautista (MEX) 1982 – 1990: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1993 – 1998: Daniel García (MEX) 2002: Alejandro López (MEX) 2006: Luis Fernando López (COL) 2010: Eder Sánchez (MEX) 2014: Horacio Nava (MEX) 2018: Éider Arévalo (COL) 2023: José Luis Doctor (MEX)

v t e World Best Year Performance in men's race walking 20 km walk 1980: Domingo Colín (MEX) 1981: Dave Smith (AUS) 1982: Willi Sawall (AUS) 1983: Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) 1984: Ernesto Canto (MEX) 1985: Dave Smith (AUS) 1986: Reima Salonen (FIN) 1987: Axel Noack (GDR) 1988: Mikhail Shchennikov (URS) 1989: Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) 1990: Pavol Blažek (TCH) 1991: Aleksandr Pershin (URS) 1992: Stefan Johansson (SWE) 1993: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1994: Bernardo Segura (MEX) 1995: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1996: Yevgeniy Misyulya (BLR) 1997: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 1998: Vladimir Andreyev (RUS) 1999: Julio René Martínez (GUA) 2000: Roman Rasskazov (RUS) 2001: Dmitriy Yesipchuk (RUS) 2002: Paquillo Fernández (ESP) 2003: Jefferson Pérez (ECU) 2004: Vladimir Stankin (RUS) 2005: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2006: Li Gaobo (CHN) 2007: Vladimir Kanaykin (RUS) 2008: Sergey Morozov (RUS) 2009: Valeriy Borchin (RUS) 2010: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2011: Wang Zhen (CHN) 2012: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2013: Petr Trofimov (RUS) 2014: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 2015: Yusuke Suzuki (JPN) 2016: Eiki Takahashi (JPN) 2017: Wang Kaihua (CHN) 2018: Sergey Shirobokov (RUS) 2019: Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 2020: Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) 2021: Wang Kaihua (CHN) 2022: Vasiliy Mizinov (ANA) 50 km walk 1980: José Marín (ESP) 1981: Uwe Dünkel (GDR) 1982: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1983: José Marín (ESP) 1984: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1985: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1986: Ronald Weigel (GDR) 1987: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1988: Vyacheslav Ivanenko (URS) 1989: Andrey Perlov (URS) 1990: Aleksandr Potashov (URS) 1991: Carlos Mercenario (MEX) 1992: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 1993: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1994: Valentí Massana (ESP) 1995: Zhao Yongsheng (CHN) 1996: Thierry Toutain (FRA) 1997: Jesús Ángel García (ESP) 1998: Andrey Plotnikov (RUS) 1999: Sergey Korepanov (KAZ) 2000: Valeriy Spitsyn (RUS) 2001: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2002: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2003: Robert Korzeniowski (POL) 2004: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2005: Yu Chaohong (CHN) 2006: Nathan Deakes (AUS) 2007: Alex Schwazer (ITA) 2008: Denis Nizhegorodov (RUS) 2009: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2010: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2011: Sergey Bakulin (RUS) 2012: Sergey Kirdyapkin (RUS) 2013: Robert Heffernan (IRL) 2014: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2015: Matej Tóth (SVK) 2016: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2017: Yohann Diniz (FRA) 2018: Tomohiro Noda (JPN) 2019: Masatora Kawano (JPN) 2020: Matej Tóth (SVK) 2021: Satoshi Maruo (JPN) 2022: Resham Midhun (IND)

Authority control databases: People World Athletics

This biographical article relating to Mexican athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

- [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mexico-athletics-bio-stub)
- [t](/source/Template_talk%3AMexico-athletics-bio-stub)
- [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Mexico-athletics-bio-stub)

This article about a Mexican Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

- [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Mexico-Olympic-medalist-stub)
- [t](/source/Template_talk%3AMexico-Olympic-medalist-stub)
- [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Mexico-Olympic-medalist-stub)

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ernesto Canto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Canto) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Canto?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.