Dionicio Cerón Pizarro (born October 9, 1965 in

Toluca Toluca , officially Toluca de Lerdo , is the state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. With a population of 910,608 as of the 2020 census, Toluca is the fifth most populous city in Mexico. The city f ...

) is a former

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from

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, whose personal best in the classic distance was 2:08:30. He represented his native country two times at the

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: in

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engines ...

and

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. He also won the

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three consecutive times between 1994 and 1996, the only man to have ever achieved this feat. Eluid Kipchoge, António Pinto and Martin Lel are the only other men to have won it three times or more, however not in consecutive years.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ceron, Dionicio 1965 births Living people People from Toluca Sportspeople from the State of Mexico Mexican male long-distance runners Mexican male marathon runners Olympic male marathon runners Olympic athletes of Mexico Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico Competitors at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics World Athletics Championships medalists World Athletics Championships athletes for Mexico Japan Championships in Athletics winners London Marathon male winners Recipients of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races Best Marathon Runner Award 20th-century Mexican people