Iván Zarco Alvarez (born 8 February 1984)
is a Honduran
long-distance runner
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. In 2020, he competed in the men's race at the
2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships
The 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships, originally scheduled for 29 March 2020 in Gdynia, Poland, was postponed until 17 October 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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held in Gdynia, Poland.
In the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games he represented Honduras in the marathon, and finished in 76th place.
He represented Spain until the end of 2019 and, as of 1 January 2020, he represents Honduras in international competitions.
In 2020, at the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in
Gdynia
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he set a Honduran national record in half-marathon, finishing the race at 1:04.08.
Zarco made headlines in March 2021, when he was scheduled to run a marathon in Dresden but instead gave his number to the former compatriot
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who ran as Zarco and finished in 2:17.46, which would have been a new record of Honduras. Santiago was swiftly discovered and disqualified for two years;
the sanction was annulled in August 2021 by the Administrative Court. Zarco was not sanctioned initially, since no obvious motive was discovered in his actions. In 2023, both were suspended for six months.
Spanish and Honduran marathon runners handed six-month bans for bib-fixing
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On May 22, 2022, he became international again competing in the Ibero-American Athletics Championships in Alicante (Spain). He finished the half marathon event in the position 9 with a time of 1:10:30.
On October 1, 2023, he participated in the Route World Championships in Riga (Latvia) in the half marathon event, managing to finish in 82nd position with a time of 1:09:07.
On March 30, 2024, he competed at the World Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. He achieved a time of 35:01 and arrived in 93rd position.
Competition record
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Living people
1984 births
Honduran male long-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Honduras
Honduran male marathon runners
Olympic male marathon runners
Athletes from Barcelona