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Luguelín Santos
Santos at the 2013 World Championships
Personal information
Full nameLuguelín Miguel Santos Aquino
Born (1992-11-12) 12 November 1992 (age 31)
Bayaguana, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
SportTrack and field
Event(s)400 metres
4 × 400m Relay
Achievements and titles
Personal best400 m: 44.11 (Beijing 2015)
Medal record
Representing the  Dominican Republic
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London 400 m
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 4×400 m mixed
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Moscow 400 m
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 400 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara 400 m
Silver medal – second place 2011 Guadalajara 4×400 m relay
World Junior Championships
Disqualified 2012 Barcelona 400 m
Summer Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2010 Singapore 400 m
Gold medal – first place 2010 Singapore Medley relay
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2015 Gwangju 4x400 m relay
Gold medal – first place 2015 Gwangju 400 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 400 m
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 4x400 m relay
CAC Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Morelia 4x400 m relay
Representing the Americas
Continental Cup
Gold medal – first place 2018 Ostrava 4×400 m mixed
Updated on 24 December 2014.
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Santos and the second or maternal family name is Aquino.

Luguelín Miguel Santos Aquino (born 12 November 1992)

2012 London Olympics
at the age of eighteen. His personal best is 44.11 seconds.

Santos emerged with two gold medals at the

CRESO.[2]

Career

Early life

Born in

middle distances, before finally settling on the 400 m at the age of fourteen.[3][4][5]

In 2008, the fourteen-year-old Santos ran the 400 m in 53 seconds and he decided to take the sport seriously after running at the national schools championships.

4×400 metres relay team, running a time of 3:13.18 minutes.[7] A visa problem caused him to miss out on the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics.[3]

The 2010 season saw him win further accolades as he ran a Dominican youth and junior record time of 46.19 seconds in June and a week later won the silver medal at the

Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez, Santos also won a relay bronze and knocked two and half seconds off the national junior record.[8] Stepping up to the global stage, he came sixth in the final at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics then achieved his first major victories at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, taking the 400 m and sprint medley relay titles.[3][9]

First senior medals

At the start of 2011 he moved to

Dominican records. He ran 44.71 seconds (beating Felix Sánchez's time) to take the 400 m silver medal behind Nery Brenes, then helped the Dominican 4 × 400 m relay quartet to a second national record of 3:00.44 minutes to finish as runners-up behind Cuba.[3]

Building upon his success in regional competition, he ran for the first time indoors at the

Adidas Grand Prix, where he beat former World and Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner.[12] A day later he ran at the 2012 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics in Barquisimeto
with the Dominican relay team, taking a bronze medal and securing their place at the Olympics.

Olympic silver medal

Santos in the 400 m Olympic final.

After winning his country's first ever medal at the World Junior Championships in Barcelona (of which he was later stripped due to age falsification), Santos said: "so far only Americans have finished in under 44 seconds, I want to be the first from somewhere else".[6] He was beaten to that distinction by Grenada's Kirani James in the 400 m final at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Santos was next to finish after James, however, as he ran within 0.01 of his personal best time to claim an unexpected Olympic silver medal.[13] His was the third ever medal for the Dominican Republic, coming just 45 minutes after Felix Sánchez won his second Olympic gold.[14] A team of Gustavo Cuesta, Felix Sánchez, Joel Mejia and Santos appeared to have qualified for the 4 × 400 m relay final, but the second baton change was outside of the changeover zone and the team was disqualified.

2013-2016

In the 400 m final of the 2013 World Championships, Santos went from a non-medal position to winning the bronze medal, after closing down several athletes on the home straight, including the defending champion, Kirani James.

Santos won the 400 m gold medal in the 2015 Pan American Games. Despite being among the pre-race favourites for the 2015 World Championships 400 metres, Santos finished in fourth place in the finals. However, in doing so, he gained the distinction of holding the fastest ever non-medal time in that event. He also broke his own National Record.[15]

At the

Wayde Van Niekerk
(who was to go onto break the World Record in the final). In the semi-final, Santos ran a Season's Best of 44.71, as he finished 4th and didn't reach the final.

Charges of age falsification

In 2023, he was suspended by World Athletics on charges of age falsification that took place early in his career. He has admitted that he competed in junior events with a passport stating he was born in 1993 despite having been born in 1992. Some of his junior victories were in events where a date of birth in 1993 was required and mean he could be disqualified if found guilty [16] On 1 December 2023 the Athletics Integrity Unit confirmed that he had been found liable, stripped him of his world Junior title and banned him from the sport for three years.[17]

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Dominican Republic
2009 Pan American Junior Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 12th (h) 400 m 47.88
6th 4 × 400 m 3:13.18
2010 Central American and Caribbean
Junior Championships (U20)
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
 2nd 400 m 46.94
3rd 4 × 400 m 3:10.55
World Junior Championships
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
 6th 400 m 46.90
Youth Olympic Games Singapore 1st 400 m 47.11
2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 8th (h) 400 m 47.07[18]
Pan American Games
Guadalajara, Mexico
 2nd 400 m 44.71
2nd 4 × 400 m 3:00.44
2012 World Indoor Championships
Istanbul, Turkey
 9th (sf) 400 m 46.83
Ibero-American Championships
Barquisimeto, Venezuela
 3rd 4 × 400 m 3:02.02
World Junior Championships
Barcelona, Spain
 DQ[19] 400 m 44.85
Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 2nd 400 m 44.46
– 4 × 100 m DQ
2013 Central American and Caribbean Championships
Morelia, Mexico
 4th 200 m 20.55
3rd 4 × 400 m 3:02.82
World Championships
Moscow, Russia
 38th (h) 200 m 21.13
3rd 400 m 44.52
14th (h) 4 × 400 m 3:03.61
2014 World Indoor Championships
Sopot, Poland
 7th (sf) 400 m 46.37
IAAF World Relays
Bahamas
 11th (B) 4 × 400 m 3:03.41
Ibero-American Championships
São Paulo, Brazil
 5th 200 m 20.97
1st 4 × 400 m 3:02.73
Pan American Sports Festival Ciudad de México, México 1st 400 m 45.06 A
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, México 4th 4 × 400 m 3:02.86 A
2015 IAAF World Relays Nassau, Bahamas 23rd (h) 4 × 400 m 3:12.55
Universiade
Gwangju, South Korea
 1st 400 m 44.91
1st 4 × 400 m 3:05.05
NACAC Championships San José, Costa Rica 4th 4 × 400 m 3:01.73
World Championships
Beijing, China
 4th 400 m 44.11 NR
10th (h) 4 × 400 m 3:00.15 NR
2016 Ibero-American Championships
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 2nd 400 m 45.58
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 10th (sf) 400 m 44.71
10th (h) 4 × 400 m 3:01.76
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 24th (h) 400 m 45.73
Universiade
Taipei, Taiwan
 1st 400 m 45.24
1st 4 × 400 m 3:04.34
Bolivarian Games
Santa Marta, Colombia
 3rd 200 m 20.95
1st 400 m 45.44
2018 World Indoor Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 3rd (sf) 400 m 46.311
Central American and Caribbean Games
Barranquilla, Colombia
 1st 400 m 44.59
2nd 4 × 400 m 3:03.92
2019 Pan American Games
Lima, Peru
 7th 400 m 45.73
4th 4 × 400 m 3:05.64
2022 Ibero-American Championships
La Nucía, Spain
 2nd 400 m 45.50
1st 4 × 400 m relay 3:00.98

1Disqualified in the final

Personal bests

References

  1. ^ "Luguelín Santos - Player Profile - Athletics". Eurosport. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Luguelin Santos logra récord nacional en Gala Bajo Techo". 25 January 2018.
  3. ^
    IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  4. ^ Marmol, Fellito (28 October 2011). Luguelin Santos pasó hambre antes de descollar Archived 14 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish). Deportes Con Fellito. Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  5. ^ Luguelín Santos, el atleta que no tenía zapatillas (in Spanish). Terra.com.ar (8 August 2012). Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  6. ^
    IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  7. ^ Pan American Junior Championships 2009 Archived 23 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  8. ^ CAC Junior Championships 2010 Archived 20 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  9. ^ "Luguelín Santos gana medalla de plata en 400 metros". Pio Deportes. 27 October 2011.
  10. ^ Luguelín Santos Archived 22 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. London2012. Retrieved on 2012-08-20.
  11. ^ Luguelín Santos Wins Men's 400m | Brussels Diamond League. Retrieved on 2016-09-10.
  12. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  13. ^ Ramsak, Bob (6 August 2012). London 2012 - Event Report - Men's 400m Final. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  14. ^ Santo Domingo (6 August 2012). "Otro dominicano: Luguelín Santos logra plata en Londres". listindiario.com.
  15. IAAF
    . Retrieved on 2012-08-24.
  16. ^ "El medallista olímpico Luguelín Santos admite tener un año más de edad".
  17. ^ https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/other/AIU-PRESS-RELEASE-AIU-BANS-SANTOS-AND-DISQUALIFIES-HIS-%E2%80%98WORLD-JUNIOR%E2%80%99-TITLE.pdf
  18. ^ Did not finish in the final
  19. ^ https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/other/AIU-PRESS-RELEASE-AIU-BANS-SANTOS-AND-DISQUALIFIES-HIS-%E2%80%98WORLD-JUNIOR%E2%80%99-TITLE.pdf

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