 Manuel Plaza in 1924 | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
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| Born | 17 March 1900 San Bernardo, Chile | ||||||||
| Died | 9 February 1969 (aged 68) Santiago, Chile | ||||||||
| Height | 171 cm (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | ||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
| Event | 5000 m – marathon | ||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||
| Personal best(s) | 5000 m – 15:12.4 (1926) 10,000 m – 31:54.0 (1926) Marathon – 2:33:23 (1928)[1][2] | ||||||||
Medal record
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Manuel Jesús Plaza Reyes ((17 March 1900 – 9 February 1969) was a Chilean athlete who won the country's first Olympic medal.[3] He earned a silver medal in the marathon at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games, finishing with a time of 2 hours, 33 minutes, and 23 seconds, just 26 seconds behind French runner Boughéra El Ouafi.[4][5][6] In the 1924 Paris Olympics, Plaza placed sixth.[1]
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- ^ Wudarski, Pawel (14 April 2012). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich - Igrzyska IX Olimpiady Ery Nowożytnej Amsterdam 1928 - Bieg maratoński" (PDF) (in Polish). comdat.w.interia.pl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ Sports Reference LLC (2011). "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's Marathon". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2009. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ Chiledeportes (2007). "Ficha técnica de Manuel Plaza" (HTM). www.chiledeportes.gob.cl. Retrieved 28 October 2009.