Natán Rivera
Personal information
Born (1998-12-12) 12 December 1998
El Salvador
EducationRice University[1]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country El Salvador
SportTrack and field
EventPole vault
College teamRice Owls
Coached byDavid Butler[3]
Updated on 29 August 2015.

Natán Armando Rivera Alas (born 12 December 1998) is a Salvadoran athlete specialising in the pole vault.[4]

Still 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 managed to jump 4.70 meters, 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, however, the opening height of 5.25 metres, way above his then PB of 4.70 metres, proved too much for him.

His current personal bests in the event are 5.35 meters outdoors (Austin, TX 2019) and 5.20 metres indoors (Houston, TX 2019). Both are national records.

Competition record

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
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
2019 NACAC U23 Championships Querétaro City, Mexico 3rd 4.90 m
Pan American Games Lima, Peru – NM

See also

References

  1. ↑ "College bio". Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  2. ↑ "2018 CAC Games bio". Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "El salvadoreño Nathan Rivera con oro panamericano juvenil" (in Spanish). El Gráfico. 31 May 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Natán Rivera at World Athletics
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