Omar Aguilar

{{short description|Chilean long-distance runner}}

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{{MedalSport | Athletics}}

{{MedalCountry | {{CHI}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|South American Games}}

{{MedalGold |1986 Santiago | 5,000 m}}

{{MedalSilver |1986 Santiago | 10,000 m}}

{{MedalBronze |1982 Santa Fe | 10,000 m}}

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Domingo Omar Aguilar Cardenas (born December 1, 1959) is a retired male long-distance runner from Chile, who represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988.

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Career

He was torch lighter for the 1986 South American Games at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile.{{Citation|last= Rodríguez III|first= Ernesto|year= 2010|title= LIBROS DEL CICLO OLÍMPICO ARGENTINO - Libro I de los Juegos Odesur 1978-2010|publisher= Alarco Ediciones|publication-place= Buenos Aires|url= https://www.scribd.com/doc/41949572/Libro-I-Juegos-Odesur-Ernesto-Rodriguez-III|accessdate= June 2, 2012|language= Spanish|isbn= 978-987-1367-18-4|pages= 192|edition= 1st|url-status= dead|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120104102158/http://www.scribd.com/doc/41949572/Libro-I-Juegos-Odesur-Ernesto-Rodriguez-III|archivedate= January 4, 2012}}

In addition to his successes on the track, he won the men's race at the first two editions of the South American Cross Country Championships.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/cxc.htm Continental Cross Country Championships and Cups]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-03-02.

Achievements

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bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="6"|Representing {{CHI}}
1981

|South American Championships

|La Paz, Bolivia

|7th

|1500 m

|4:22.2

1982

|Southern Cross Games

|Santa Fe, Argentina

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|10,000 m

|29:55.6

rowspan=2|1983

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Santa Fe, Argentina

|bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st

|5000 m

|14:00.9

bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st

|10,000 m

|29:12.1

1984

|Olympic Games

|Los Angeles, United States

| –

|Marathon

|DNF

rowspan=2|1985

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Santiago, Chile

|bgcolor="gold" align="center" | 1st

|5000 m

|13:53.69

bgcolor="gold" | 1st

|10,000 m

|28:39.90

rowspan = "2"|1986

|rowspan = "2"|South American Games

|rowspan = "2"|Santiago, Chile

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|5,000 m

|14:05.56

bgcolor=silver|2nd

|10,000 m

|29:20.92

rowspan=3|1987

|Pan American Games

|Indianapolis, United States

|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd

|5000 m

|13:47.86

rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|São Paulo, Brazil

|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd

|5000 m

|14:05.50

bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd

|10,000 m

|29:30.01

rowspan=2|1989

|rowspan=2|South American Championships

|rowspan=2|Medellín, Colombia

|4th

|1500 m

|3:52.3

6th

|5000 m

|14:24.86

References