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Venezuelan track and field athlete (born 1987)
José Peña
Peña at the 2016 Olympics
Full name José Gregorio Peña Trejo Born (1987-01-12 ) 12 January 1987 (age 37)
San Cristóbal ,
Táchira ,
Venezuela Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
[1] Weight 52 kg (115 lb) Country
Venezuela Sport
Athletics Updated on 21 December 2014
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
Peña and the second or maternal family name is
Trejo .
José Gregorio Peña Trejo (born 12 January 1987) is a
Venezuelan
track and field athlete who specialises in the
3000 metres steeplechase . His personal best for the event is 8:20.87 minutes
Biography
Born in
San Cristóbal, Táchira , he first established himself on the continental youth scene. His first international outing came at the 2002
South American Youth Championships in Athletics , where he came fourth in the boy's 2000 metres steeplechase race.
[2] At the 2004 edition of the competition, he won the steeplechase
gold medal and also came fourth in the
1500 metres and fifth in the
3000 metres flat events.
[3] Moving up to the junior under-20 ranks, he ran at the
2005 South American Junior Championships in Athletics . There he won the 3000 m steeplechase
silver medal behind Peru's
Mario Bazán and he also placed eighth in the 1500 m final.
[4] He represented Venezuelan on the global stage at the
2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics , but did not progress beyond the steeplechase heats. In November 2006, he was the runner-up at the
2006 South American Games (again to Bazán) and ran a national junior record time of 8:50.88 minutes.
[5]
In Peña's first season as a senior athlete, he won the
bronze medal in the steeplechase at the
2007 South American Championships in Athletics .
[6] He was also the runner-up at the
2007 ALBA Games event. He focused on longer distances in 2008, coming seventh in the
South American Cross Country Championships and winning the national title over
5000 metres . At the
2008 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics he came fifth in his specialist steeplechase event.
[7]
His focus returned to steeplechasing in the 2009 season. He came second at the
2009 ALBA Games , fifth at the
World Military Track and Field Championships , then ran a personal best of 8:36.17 minutes at the
2009 South American Championships in Athletics in
Lima – finishing just one second behind the host nation's Mario Bazán who broke the championship record.
[8] Two weeks later, he competed at the
2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and won the silver medal.
[9] He won the 2010 Venezuelan steeplechase title, but missed the rest of the track season that year.
[7]
At the
2011 South American Championships in Athletics , Peña missed out on a steeplechase medal for the first time, coming in fifth place. A month later, he ran a personal best of 8:34.90 minutes at the
2011 Military World Games and was eighth in the event final. At the end of July he won the title at the
2011 ALBA Games .
[7] The
2011 Pan American Games in
Guadalajara saw him achieve his best finish to date, taking the Pan American gold medal ahead of Brazil's
Hudson de Souza with a tactical sprint finish.
[10] This achievement followed in the footsteps of his compatriot
Néstor Nieves , who won the same event in 2003.
Peña served as the flag bearer for Venezuela at the opening ceremony of the 2014 South American Games.
[11]
Personal bests
1500 m: 3:44.06 min –
Eagle Rock , 4 May 2013
3000 m: 7:54.42 min –
Linz , 26 August 2013
5000 m: 13:47.25 min –
Stanford , 29 March 2013
3000 m steeplechase: 8:20.87 min NR –
Berlin , 1 September 2013
International competitions
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Notes
Representing
Venezuela
2002
South American Youth Championships
Asunción ,
Paraguay
4th
2000 m s'chase
6:27.07
2004
South American Youth Championships
Guayaquil ,
Ecuador
4th
1500 m
3:59.8
5th
3000 m
8:45.8
1st
2000 m s'chase
5:52.2
2005
South American Junior Championships
Rosario ,
Argentina
2nd
3000 m s'chase
9:13.74
2006
World Junior Championships
Beijing ,
China
13th (h)
3000 m s'chase
8:52.36
South American Under-23 Championships /
South American Games
Buenos Aires ,
Argentina
8th
5000m
14:34.13
2nd
3000 m s'chase
8:50.88 NJR
2007
ALBA Games
Caracas ,
Venezuela
2nd
3000 m s'chase
8:51.42
South American Championships
São Paulo ,
Brazil
3rd
3000 m s'chase
8:54.43
2008
South American Cross Country Championships
Asunción ,
Paraguay
7th
Long course (12 km)
38:47
Ibero-American Championships
Iquique ,
Chile
5th
3000 m s'chase
8:54.80
2009
ALBA Games
La Habana ,
Cuba
2nd
3000 m s'chase
8:44.47
World Military Track & Field Championships
Sofia ,
Bulgaria
5th
3000 m s'chase
8:48.00
South American Championships
Lima ,
Perú
2nd
3000 m s'chase
8:36.17 PB A
Central American and Caribbean Championships
La Habana ,
Cuba
2nd
3000 m s'chase
8:51.03
Bolivarian Games
Sucre ,
Bolivia
3rd
3000 m s'chase
10.04.90 A
2011
South American Championships
Buenos Aires ,
Argentina
5th
3000 m s'chase
8:44.18
Military World Games
Rio de Janeiro ,
Brazil
8th
3000 m s'chase
8:47.18
ALBA Games
Barquisimeto ,
Venezuela
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:45.25
South American Road Mile Championships
Belém ,
Brazil
6th
One mile
4:14
Pan American Games
Guadalajara ,
México
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:48.19 A
2012
Ibero-American Championships
Barquisimeto ,
Venezuela
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:37.67
Olympic Games
London ,
United Kingdom
16th (h)
3000 m s'chase
8:24.06
NR
2013
South American Championships
Cartagena ,
Colombia
7th
1500 m
3:47.63
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:32.01
World Championships
Moscow ,
Russia
16th (h)
3000 m s'chase
8:24.88
Bolivarian Games
Trujillo ,
Perú
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:26.6 (ht)
2014
South American Games
Santiago ,
Chile
–
5000 m
DNF
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:36.81
Central American and Caribbean Games
Xalapa ,
México
2nd
3000m s'chase
8:45.04 A
2015
Pan American Games
Toronto, Canada
7th
3000 m s'chase
8:59.40
2016
Ibero-American Championships
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
5th
3000 m s'chase
8:43.90
Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22nd (h)
3000 m s'chase
8:32.38
2017
South American Championships
Asunción, Paraguay
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:45.93
World Championships
London, United Kingdom
31st (h)
3000 m s'chase
8:37.15
Bolivarian Games
Santa Marta, Colombia
1st
3000 m s'chase
8:39.99
2018
South American Games
Cochabamba, Bolivia
4th
3000 m s'chase
9:30.00
Central American and Caribbean Games
Barranquilla, Colombia
–
3000 m s'chase
DNF
2019
South American Championships
Lima, Peru
6th
3000 m s'chase
8:57.95
Pan American Games
Lima, Peru
9th
3000 m s'chase
9:02.04
2022
Ibero-American Championships
La Nucía ,
Spain
6th
3000 m s'chase
8:46.81
2023
ALBA Games
Caracas, Venezuela
1st
3000 m s'chase
9:09.15
Central American and Caribbean Games
San Salvador, El Salvador
–
3000 m s'chase
DNF
Pan American Games
Santiago, Chile
12th
3000 m s'chase
9:17.90
References
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