Choose the group of walkers from Colombia who will participate in the Olympics will not be easy. Not only by the number of athletes who obtianed the entry standard, but for the quality of the athletes entered the world elite.

Major results in the past have reached by Querubin Moreno, ninth at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics (1:26:04), and the same place was obtained by Hector Moreno, in Barcelona in 1992 (1:26:23), and Luis Fernando Lopez in Beijing 2008 (1:20:59), as regards the Olympics.

As for the World Championships, the highlight was the title of Luis Fernando Lopez in Daegu in 2011, and fifth place in Berlin in 2009 the same athlete, in addition to seventh of Eider Arévalo, last year in Beijing.

For Rio 2016, fifteen Colombian athletes have already obtained the entry standard, four women and eleven men.

In the group of women, the best time is to you Sandra Lorena Arenas, with 1:29:31, new national record obtained in Rome in 2016, while the best male time on the 20 km  of Esteban Soto (1:20:39) obtained on Apr. 9, 2016 in Podebrady (CZE).

In 50 km  the best time is of James Rendon (3:50:47) obtained in Arica on May 10, 2015.

To this we must add that three athletes have already achieved the Olympic standard in both 20km and 50 km: Luis Fernando Lopez, James Rendón and Leonardo Mountain.

Of this group of fifteen only nine athletes will be at the Olympic Games in Rio, three women and three men, at 20 km, and three other men at 50 km. The Colombian Athletic Federation will make the final decision after May 29th leg of the IAAF Challenge Grand Prix of La Coruna.

In La Coruna they should have been initially entered Eider Arévalo and Estiven Diaz, even if now are talking about a possible participation of Ivan Garrido, Luis Fernando Lopez Perez.

In this scenario, the designator of Colombia will have to choose a team that will do well, from the following athletes.