death_date death_place birth_place nationality olympics medaltemplates sport birth_date article_title name
30 may 2013 maracaibo , zulia bobures , zulia venezuela 1964 summer olympics men 's athletics men 's athletics 08 august 1935 arquímedes herrera
 arquímedes herrera
arquímedes herrera

arquímedes herrera -lrb- august 8 , 1935 -- may 30 , 2013 -rrb- was a venezuelan track and field athlete who competed in the sprint events and was ranked # 4 in the world in the 100 m in 1963 .
as a teenager herrera spent time in the venezuelan military , taking up his athletics career after his discharge .
he claimed three medals at the 1963 pan american games held in são paulo , brazil , and also participated at the 1964 summer olympics in tokyo , japan , where he made the semi-finals in both the 100 metres and 200 metres and was a member of the venezuelan team which finished sixth in the final of the 4 × 100 metres relay .
herrera was a claimant to the masters m35 100 metres world record , running a hand timed 10.3 while taking a silver medal in the 1970 bolivarian games in maracaibo on august 29 , 1970 .
in the transitional period , hand times were acceptable .
his record held until it was beaten by an automatically timed 10.28 by olympic champion allan wells almost 17 years later .
the record was beaten intrinsically by an automatic 10.50 set by delano meriwether at the penn relays in 1979 .
four day later , herrera added the m35 200 metres record at 21.5 .
that record lasted was tied two years later but not surpassed for almost 6 years .
after his sports career ended , he worked as a coach and as a judge with the venezuelan athletics federation . .
