Natán Rivera

Natán Rivera
Personal information
Born (1998-12-12) 12 December 1998
El Salvador
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight 66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country  El Salvador
Sport Track and field
Event(s) Pole vault
Coached by David Butler[2]
Updated on 29 August 2015.

Natán Armando Rivera Alas (born 12 December 1998) is a Salvadoran athlete specialising in the pole vault.[3]

Still as a youth athlete, he won the gold medal at the 2015 NACAC Championships although in rather unusual circumstances. His rivals having much better personal bests than Rivera, who only managed to jump 4.70 metres, entered the competition much higher but none of them actually cleared the bar. This left him as the sole athlete to record a valid jump and the gold medalist. This victory earned him a spot at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing where the opening height of 5.25 m, however, was beyond Rivera's capabilities.

His personal best in the event is 5.10 metres set in Trujillo in 2017.

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  El Salvador
2015 Pan American Youth Championships Cali, Colombia 1st 4.56 m
Central American Championships Managua, Nicaragua 1st 4.55 m
NACAC Championships San José, Costa Rica 1st 4.70 m
World Championships Beijing, China – NM
2016 Ibero-American Championships Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 6th 4.70 m
NACAC U23 Championships San Salvador, El Salvador 4th 4.70 m
2017 Pan American U20 Championships Trujillo, Peru 2nd 5.10 m
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 4th 5.10 m

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2018 CAC Games bio". Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "El salvadoreño Nathan Rivera con oro panamericano juvenil" (in Spanish). El Gráfico. 2015-05-31. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  3. ↑ Natán Rivera at IAAF


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