Guillermo Solá Aravena (July 25, 1929 – February 24, 2020) was a middle- and long-distance runner from

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. He won the gold medal in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase event at the 1955 Pan American Games. Solá represented his native

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

n country at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

in Helsinki, Finland.

References

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Guillermo Solá's obituary
1929 births 2020 deaths Chilean male middle-distance runners Chilean male long-distance runners Athletes (track and field) at the 1951 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games Olympic athletes for Chile Pan American Games gold medalists for Chile Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Chilean male steeplechase runners Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games Sportspeople from Valparaíso {{Chile-athletics-bio-stub