Saúl Mendoza Hernández (born January 6, 1967, in Mexico City)[1] is a Mexican former wheelchair racer, who competed at the Olympic and Paralympic levels.

He won six medals in different athletics events at the Paralympic Games – 2 gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze – in a career that spanned from Seoul 1988 to Beijing 2008.

Mendoza won the Men's Wheelchair Race of the London Marathon in 2004 in controversial circumstances after following a police motorbike through a shortcut on the course near the turn-around at The Cutty Sark, cutting the course short by approximately 200m.

[2] He went on to finish the race with a comfortable lead ahead of British athlete David Weir and escaped disqualification.

However, he returned to the sport to compete in the 2012 London Paralympic marathon on Sunday 9 September having earlier in the season set a new personal best of 1:24:23.