Héctor Thomas
Appearance
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Full name | Héctor Thomas Martínez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | El Callao, Bolívar, Venezuela | 10 October 1938||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 December 2008 Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela | (aged 70)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Venezuela | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 1960, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Héctor Thomas Martínez (10 October 1938 – 23 December 2008) was a decathlete from Venezuela.
Career
He won more than ten medals in various athletics events at the Bolivarian Games in 1961–1973, as well as three medals at the Pan American Games in 1963 and 1967. He competed in the decathlon at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics with the best result of 20th place in 1960. In 1998 he was inducted into the Venezuelan Sports Hall of Fame. He died of cancer aged 70.[1]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Héctor Thomas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013.
External links
- Media related to Héctor Thomas at Wikimedia Commons
- Héctor Thomas at World Athletics
- Héctor Thomas at Olympedia (archive)
- Héctor Thomas at Olympics.com
Categories:
- 1938 births
- 2008 deaths
- Sportspeople from Bolívar (state)
- Venezuelan decathletes
- Olympic athletes for Venezuela
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Venezuela
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Venezuela
- Competitors at the 1962 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- 20th-century Venezuelan people
- 21st-century Venezuelan people
- Venezuelan athletics biography stubs