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Apr 27, 1966 Cuenca Canton, Ecuador 58 years old
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About Rolando Vera Athlete
- Rolando Patricio Vera Rodas (born April 27, 1965 in Cuenca, Azuay) is a retired long-distance runner from Ecuador, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988.
- He reached the top ten of the 10,000 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics.
- He enjoyed much championship success at the regional level: he was a two-time South American Champion on the track and won gold medals at the South American Games and Bolivarian Games, as well as reaching the podium at the Ibero-American Championships and the 1987 Pan American Games. He won road running competitions on four continents and was tenth at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.
- Vera won the Saint Silvester Road Race four times consecutively in the 1980s.
- In 1995 he won both the Los Angeles Marathon and the Chuncheon Marathon, and he won the Beppu-Oita Marathon two years later.
- At Olympic level he competed in the marathon on two occasions (1992 and 1996).
- He remains the Ecuadorian record holder over 20 km and the half marathon.
- His personal best in the marathon is 2:10:46 – a time which brought him third at the 1990 Boston Marathon.
