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Juan Luis Barrios recorded a personal best in his New York City Marathon debut in 2011, running a time of 2:14:10, and has since improved his personal best to 2:10:55, which he clocked at the Tokyo Marathon in 2018.

The two-time Olympian finished seventh over 5000 meters at the Beijing 2008 Games and eighth in the same event at the London 2012 Games before failing to qualify for the Olympics in 2016.

Barrios has finished in the top 10 at the NYC Half six times and reached the podium once, taking third in 2015.

Barrios has run both his indoor and outdoor personal bests for 5000 meters in New York City – in 2011, he ran 13:09.81 at Icahn Stadium and in 2012 he ran a national-record 13:23.61 at the NYRR Millrose Games at the Armory. He won gold over 5000 meters at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico, and then successfully defended his title four years later at the 2015 edition of the event in Toronto, Canada.

Barrios joined his first running club at the age of 9 during the glory days of men’s distance running in Mexico. Dionicio Cerón, Benjamín Paredes, 1993 New York City Marathon champion Andrés Espinosa, and two-time New York City Marathon champion Germán Silva were all at their peaks in the mid-1990s. Five times in nine years (1991–1999), athletes from Mexico won the New York City Marathon.