Andrés Chocho

Andrés Chocho
Andrés Chocho in 2013
Personal information
Full nameCristian Andrés Chocho León
Born (1983-11-04) November 4, 1983 (age 41)
Cuenca, Azuay
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Parent
  • Luis Chocho (died 2021) (father)
Sport
Country Ecuador
SportMen's Athletics
EventRace walking
Medal record
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 50 km walk
Summer Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen 20 km walk
IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rome Team 20 km walk
Bolivarian Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Trujillo 50 km walk
South American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Buenos Aires 20,000 m walk
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Cartagena 20,000 m walk
Updated on 11 June 2014

Cristian Andrés Chocho León (born 4 November 1983)[1] is an Ecuadorian race walker who competes in both the 20 km and 50 km walk events.[2] He is the South American record holder in the 50 km (3:49:32 hours) and 20,000 metres (1:20:23.8 hours) walking events.

Chocho was the 2011 South American Champion over 20 km and was the bronze medallist at the 2011 Summer Universiade. His best global level finish is eleventh over 50 km at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics. He represented Ecuador at four Summer Olympics, won a gold medal in 50 km Walk in the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games, and is a seven-time participant of the IAAF World Race Walking Cup.

Career

Born in Cuenca, Ecuador (the same city as 1996 Olympic racewalk champion Jefferson Pérez), he began racewalking at a young age and made his international debut at 15 years old. He took third in both the youth 10 km at the 1999 South American Racewalking Cup and the 10,000 m walk at the 1999 South American Junior Championships in Athletics.[3][4] The year after he improved to second at the youth section of the South American Cup,[5] but was disqualified for lifting at the 2000 South American Junior Championships.[6] In spite of this he was chosen to compete at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Santiago de Chile and came 24th.[7] He ended the year with a win over 10,000 m at the 2000 South American Youth Championships in Athletics.[8]

The 2001 South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in conjunction with the 2001 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in October and he won the South American 10,000 m walk title, while finishing second in the Pan American race behind Mexico's Horacio Nava.[9][10] Later that month he won the 10 km junior road title at the South American Cup.[11] In his final year of junior competition he was runner-up to Brazil's Rafael Duarte in the 2002 South American Junior Championships and placed eighteenth in the 10,000 m walk at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics.[12][13] That year also marked his senior debut at the 2002 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, where he took 34th place in the 20 km walk category, as well as a tenth-place finish at the South American Cup.[14]

Chocho did not compete in major competition in 2003 but returned in 2004 he placed fifth in the South American Cup. He was disqualified at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup in both 2004 and 2006. He set a personal best of 1:22:31 hours for the 20 km walk at the Na Rynek Marsz meet in June 2007, but managed only 13th place at the 2007 Summer Universiade and was again disqualified at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.[14] He came ninth at the 2008 South American Race Walking Cup and managed finishes of 38th and 39th at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, respectively.[15] He also improved his best to 1:22:05 hours at that year's Na Rynek Marsz meet.[16] His highlights of 2009 were a twelfth-place finish at the 2009 Summer Universiade and 39th place at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics.[14]

Chocho was disqualified at the 2010 South American Cup,[17] but managed 31st at the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup. He debuted over the 50 km walk distance that October and set a time of 3:54:42 hours in Congers, New York.[14] The 2011 season saw Chocho reach new heights in his career. He began with a win at the national championships, but failed to finish at the 2011 Pan American Race Walking Cup. He rebounded with a near-personal best of 1:22:18 hours to take eighth at Rio Maior's Grande Premio Internacional en Marcha Atletica.[18] That June he broke the South American record for the 20,000 m walk at the 2011 South American Championships in Athletics, winning the gold medal in a time of 1:20:23.8 hours.[19] He followed this with a bronze medal performance at the 2011 Summer Universiade.[20]

Making his championship debut over the distance, Chocho proved himself more adept at the longer distance and took eleventh place at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics with a South American record time of 3:49:32 hours.[21] He ended the year at the 2011 Pan American Games, but was disqualified in the 50 km walk event.[15] He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics but was disqualified just beyond an hour into the 50 km race having been shown three red cards.

In 2019, he competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[22] He finished in 18th place.[22] He also competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk.[23] He did not finish his race.[23]

Chocho represented Ecuador in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 19th with a season best.[24]

Personal life

Andres Chocho is the son of the olympic trainer, Luis Chocho (born 1957 in Cuenca Ecuador, died February 17, 2021, due to the complications for the COVID-19 disease to the age of 64 years old).[25]

He is married to a Brazilian race walker, Érica de Sena, who he also coaches.[26] Their son was born in 2022.[27]

Personal bests

Track walk

  • 10,000 m: 40:29.71 min (ht) – Cuenca, Ecuador, 21 March 2016
  • 20,000 m: 1:20:23.8 hrs (ht) – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5 June 2011

Road walk

  • 20 km: 1:20:07 hrs – Rome, Italy, 7 May 2016
  • 50 km: 3:42:57 hrs NR– Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 6 March 2016

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Ecuador
1999 South American Race Walking Cup Cochabamba, Bolivia 3rd 10 km walk (youth) 50:07
South American Junior Championships Concepción, Chile 3rd 10,000 m walk 44:43.08
2000 South American Race Walking Cup Lima, Peru 2nd 10 km walk (youth) 48:09
Pan American Race Walking Cup Poza Rica, Mexico 17th 20 km walk 1:42:44
South American Junior Championships São Leopoldo, Brazil — 10,000 m walk DQ
World Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 24th 10,000 m walk 46:17.66
South American Youth Championships Bogotá, Colombia 1st 10,000 m walk 47:52.68 A
2001 South American Junior Championships Santa Fe, Argentina 1st 10,000 m walk 43:58.89
Pan American Junior Championships Santa Fe, Argentina 2nd 10,000 m walk 43:58.89
South American Race Walking Cup Cuenca, Ecuador 1st 10 km walk (junior) 45:55
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 18th 10,000 m walk 45:28.60
South American Junior Championships /
South American Games 		Belém, Brazil 2nd 10,000 m walk 44:36.81
World Race Walking Cup Turin, Italy 34th 20 km walk 1:29:09
South American Race Walking Cup Puerto Saavedra, Chile 10th 20 km walk 1:33:29
2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup Chula Vista, United States 14th 20 km walk 1:29:27
Universiade Daegu, South Korea — 20 km walk DNF
2004 South American Race Walking Championships Los Ángeles, Chile 5th 20 km walk 1:24:29
World Race Walking Cup Naumburg, Germany — 20 km walk DQ
2005 Pan American Race Walking Cup Lima, Peru — 20 km walk DNF
2006 South American Race Walking Championships Cochabamba, Bolivia 6th 20 km walk 1:30:24
World Race Walking Cup A Coruña, Spain — 20 km walk DQ
2007 Pan American Race Walking Cup Balneário Camboriú, Brazil — 20 km walk DQ
Universiade Bangkok, Thailand 14th 20 km walk 1:31:24
World Championships Osaka, Japan — 20 km walk DQ
2008 South American Race Walking Championships Cuenca, Ecuador 9th 20 km walk 1:31:27
World Race Walking Cup Cheboksary, Russia 39th 20 km walk 1:24:08
Olympic Games Beijing, China 38th 20 km walk 1:27:09
2009 South American Championships Lima, Peru — 20,000 m walk DNF
Universiade Belgrade, Serbia 12th 20 km walk 1:24:51
World Championships Berlin, Germany 39th 20 km walk 1:29:14
2010 South American Race Walking Championships Cochabamba, Bolivia — 20 km walk DQ
World Race Walking Cup Chihuahua, Mexico 31st 20 km walk 1:28:19
2011 Pan American Race Walking Cup Envigado, Colombia — 20 km walk DNF
South American Championships Buenos Aires, Argentina 1st 20,000 m walk 1:20:23.8
Universiade Shenzhen, China 2nd 20 km walk 1:24:44
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 11th 50 km walk 3:49:32
Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico — 50 km walk DQ
2012 South American Race Walking Championships Salinas, Ecuador 8th 20 km walk 1:30:24.4
World Race Walking Cup Saransk, Russia — 50 km walk DQ
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom — 50 km walk DQ
2013 South American Championships Cartagena, Colombia 3rd 20,000 m walk 1:26:20.98
World Championships Moscow, Russia — 50 km walk DQ
Bolivarian Games Trujillo, Peru 1st 50 km walk 3:58:50
2014 South American Games Santiago, Chile — 20,000 m walk DQ
World Race Walking Cup Taicang, China — 50 km walk DQ
2015 World Championships Beijing, China — 20 km walk DQ
8th 50 km walk 3:46:00
2016 South American Race Walking Championships Guayaquil, Ecuador 1st 20 km walk 1:24:11
World Race Walking Cup Rome, Italy 6th (team: 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)) 20 km walk 1:20:07
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — 50 km walk DQ
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom – 50 km walk DQ
Bolivarian Games Santa Marta, Colombia 1st 50 km walk 4:14:20
2018 South American Games Cochabamba, Bolivia 1st 50 km walk 3:55:48
2019 World Championships Doha, Qatar 18th 20 km walk 1:32:49
– 50 km walk DNF
2021 South American Championships Guayaquil, Ecuador 1st 20,000 m walk 1:24:18.94
Olympic Games Sapporo, Japan 19th 50 km walk 3:59:03
2022 Ibero-American Championships La Nucía, Spain – 10,000 m walk DNF
World Championships Eugene, United States 24th 35 km walk 2:33:28
South American Games Asunción, Paraguay – 35 km walk DNF

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