ATHLETE

Ernesto Canto

1959 - 2020

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Ernesto Canto Gudiño (18 October 1959 – 20 November 2020) was a Mexican race walker who mainly competed in the 20 kilometer walk. He competed for Mexico at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernesto Canto has received more than 34,284 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Ernesto Canto is the 1,684th most popular athlete (down from 1,636th in 2019), the 373rd most popular biography from Mexico (up from 385th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ernesto Canto ranks 1,684 out of 6,025. Before him are Petar Petrov, Ludmila Engquist, Charles Grimes, Charles Kieffer, Dieter Schubert, and Bohuslav Karlík. After him are Dave Wottle, Flavio, Hennadiy Avdyeyenko, Tia Hellebaut, Zygmunt Chychła, and Ronnie Ray Smith.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Ernesto Canto ranks 430. Before him are Hisashi Kaneko, Toshio Masuda, John Lauridsen, Patxi López, Dan Gilroy, and David Hyde Pierce. After him are Ulrike Richter, Lika Kavzharadze, Richard Borcherds, Ramón Calderé, Atsushi Uchiyama, and Renée Fleming. Among people deceased in 2020, Ernesto Canto ranks 638. Before him are Maurice Moucheraud, Zlatko Portner, Noël Vandernotte, Saroj Khan, Luciano Federici, and Leonid Potapov. After him are Yawovi Agboyibo, Dennis Ralston, Bob Gibson, Gilberto Penayo, Folke Alnevik, and Péter Marót.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Ernesto Canto ranks 373 out of 729. Before him are Erika Buenfil (1964), Fidel Ortiz (1908), Juan Ignacio Basaguren (1944), Alfredo Sánchez (1904), Elvia Carrillo Puerto (1878), and Patricia Espinosa (1958). After him are Ignacio Flores (1953), Chantal Andere (1972), José Villegas (1934), Alfredo Torres (1935), Eduardo Verástegui (1974), and Jaime Camil (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Mexico

Among athletes born in Mexico, Ernesto Canto ranks 5. Before him are Ricardo Delgado (1947), Enriqueta Basilio (1948), Joaquín Capilla (1928), and Humberto Mariles (1913). After him are Raúl González (1952), Pilar Roldán (1939), Carlos Girón (1954), Ana Guevara (1977), Jaime Ordiales (1963), Bernardo Segura (1970), and Soraya Jiménez (1977).

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