Mariano Haro Biography 2024: Parents, Education, Athlete, Children, Death
He stood out in the discipline of athletics, specifically in long-distance races.
| Parents | Mariano and Fidela |
| Spouse | Maria de la Consolacion Maeso Rebolleda, Maria del Mar Carrasco Alvarez |
| Children | Consolation, Mary Cruz, Mariano, Jose Antonio |
| Name | Mariano Haro Cisneros |
| Nickname | The Lion of Becerril |
| Height | 1.65 m |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sporting Merit (2003) |
Mariano Haro was born on May 27, 1940, in Becerril de Campos, Palencia.
Parents
He was the eldest of Mariano’s and Fidela’s seven children.
Studies
He attended the school of the Angeline Nuns. At the age of seven, he went to the National School. At thirteen, he left school to work with his father, who was a bricklayer.
Athlete
He was runner-up in the World Cross Country Championships four times in a row, finishing second in the Cross of Nations in Cambridge (United Kingdom, 1972), Warengem (Belgium, 1973), Monza (Italy, 1974), and Rabat (Morocco, 1975), and twice winning the European Nations Cup (1965 and 1970).
Records
He held the Spanish records for the 3,000m, 5,000m, and 10,000m and won a total of eleven national cross-country titles (1962, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1977), nine for the 10,000m, five for the 5,000m, and one for the 3,000m steeplechase and long-distance races, respectively.
He twice reached the final of the European 10,000m Championships, finishing eighth in Rome (Italy, 1974), and the same number of Olympic finals over the same distance: he came fourth in 1972 in Munich (Germany).
In 1977, he set a record by running around a bullring one hundred times, some ten kilometers; in Tolosa, he did it in 29’37”. His record remained unbeaten until 2011.
Marriages and children
In 1961, he married María Consolación Maeso. They had three children: Consolación, Mary Cruz, and Mariano. They divorced in 2011, and he married María del Mar Carrasco Álvarez, with whom he fathered José Antonio.
Death
Mariano Haro, four-time world cross-country runner-up and fourth in the 10,000 meters at the Munich ’72 Olympic Games, died on July 27, 2024, due to complications from the diabetes he suffered from after 20 days of being admitted to a Palencia hospital.
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