José Salvador Miranda (born 22 August 1971 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

) is a Mexican former

middle distance runner Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...

who competed in the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. His personal best in the 3000 metres steeplechase is 8:25.69 achieved in 2000. Until 2020, he maintains the Steeplechase record in Mexico and Central America. He now coaches the distance and middle distance runners from the athletics team of the Mexican college

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a secular and coeducational private university based in ...

, Campus Ciudad de México in

. Among his most important achievements, he has been granted with several recognitions from the

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

, the

Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones de Atletismo The Federation of Mexican Athletics Associations (FMAA; ''Federación Mexicana de Asociaciones de Atletismo'') is the governing body for the sport of athletics in México. Current president is Antonio Pineda Lozano. History FMAA was founded i ...

and the

IAAF World Athletics, formerly known as the International Amateur Athletic Federation (from 1912 to 2001) and International Association of Athletics Federations (from 2001 to 2019, both abbreviated as the IAAF) is the international governing body for ...

Competition record

References

* 1971 births Living people Athletes from Mexico City Mexican male middle-distance runners Mexican male steeplechase runners Olympic athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican people {{Mexico-athletics-bio-stub