Omar Zepeda

Omar Zepeda de Léon (born 8 July 1977) is a Mexican race walker. He finished sixth in the 50 km race at the 2005 World Championships in a personal best time of 3:49:01 hours. He was the bronze medalist in the 50 kilometres walk at the 2007 Pan American Games.

Also he won the team silver medal with Mexico over 50 km at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia. He has competed at the World Championships in Athletics on six occasions and was 21st over 50 km at the 2011 edition. He won the 50 km race at the Chihuahua meeting on the 2012 IAAF World Race Walking Challenge tour.

Personal bests

Track walk 10,000 m: 40:26.68 min – Monterrey, Mexico, 4 July 2004 20,000 m: 1:27:57.5 hrs (ht) – Bergen, Norway, 3 May 1997

Road walk 20 km: 1:21:59 min – Poděbrady, Czech Republic, 19 April 1997 50 km: 3:47:35 hrs – Taicang, China, 3 May 2014

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