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Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba
About Yaniel Velázquez
- Yaniel Velázquez Garcia (born 12 July 1987 in Havana) is a Cuban modern pentathlete.
- He won a silver medal for the men's event at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which earned him a qualifying place for the Olympics, with an impressive score of 5,344 points.At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Velazquez became the nation's first pentathlete to compete in the men's event.
- During the competition, he made a strong start in the early segments, but struggled to maintain his position in the entire event, when he set the slowest time of 2:16.38 in freestyle swimming.
- He managed to attain fair scores for horse riding and cross-country running; however, these were insufficient for him to place near the top, placing fifteenth out of thirty-six competitors in the men's event, with a total score of 5,292 points.
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