Career
Plasencia competed in the 10,000 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1992 Summer Olympics. His 14:02.86 5000 metres at the Drake Relays at the age of 40 was the American Masters record until 2014 when it was broken by Bernard Lagat. 5000 m - 13:19.37 (Oslo, Norway, July 27, 1985) 10000 m - 27:45.20 (Seattle, Washington, July 25, 1990) Marathon - 2:12.51 2 time Olympian.
