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| Full name | Bayron Efrén Piedra Avilés | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 19, 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Ecuador | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 12 May 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bayron Efrén Piedra Avilés (born August 19, 1982) is an Ecuadorian middle distance and long-distance runner.[1]
He won the 2007 and 2008 editions of the Guayaquil Marathon. He also competed at the 2004 Olympic Games, the 2005 Summer Universiade, the 2007 World Championships, the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2012 Olympic Games without reaching the final round.
He demonstrated his regional strength with a double gold in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres at the 2009 South American Championships in Athletics. He decided to run in both the 1500 m and 5000 m races at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics but he did not succeed in either event, finishing third last in the heats of the 1500 m and failing to finish at all in the 5000 m
He has medalled at regional competitions a number of times. He took part in the 2003 Pan American Games and reached the 1500 m final, finishing in eighth. In 2004, he came within a second of scoring a long race/short race double at the South American Cross Country Championships, but Juan Suárez of Argentina just finished ahead of him in the short competition. He won a bronze in the long race in 2006.[2] He improved upon his past performance by taking a bronze in the 2007 Pan American Games.
Personal bests
[edit]- 800 metres: 1:46.55 min NR – Belém, 25 May 2008
- 1500 metres: 3:37.88 min NR – Rio de Janeiro, 25 July 2007
- 3000 metres: 7:47.06 min NR – Belém, 19 May 2010
- 5000 metres: 13:23.72 min NR – Ninove, 21 July 2012
- 10000 metres: 27:32.59 min NR – Stanford, 1 May 2011
- Half marathon: 1:02:35 hrs – New York City, 20 March 2016
- Marathon: 2:14:12 hrs – Rio de Janeiro, 21 August 2016
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Biografía - General - PIEDRA AVILES Byron Efren - Ecuador (in Spanish), archived from the original on May 12, 2014, retrieved May 8, 2018
- ↑ Continental Cross Country Championships and Cups. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-03-02.
External links
[edit]- Byron Piedra at World Athletics
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bayron Piedra". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2011-05-19.
- 1982 births
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Ecuadorian men long-distance runners
- Ecuadorian men marathon runners
- Ecuadorian men middle-distance runners
- Living people
- Olympic athletes for Ecuador
- Pan American Games silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Sportspeople from Cuenca, Ecuador
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Ecuador
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Ecuador
- Pan American Games athletes for Ecuador
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Ecuador
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 South American Games
- South American Games gold medalists for Ecuador
- South American Games bronze medalists for Ecuador
- South American Games medalists in athletics
- Universiade medalists for Ecuador
- Ecuadorian men cross country runners
- South American Championships in Athletics winners
- Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- South American Games gold medalists in athletics
- Bolivarian Games gold medalists for Ecuador
- Bolivarian Games medalists in athletics
- 21st-century Ecuadorian sportsmen
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 South American Games
- Olympic men marathon runners
- Olympic men long-distance runners