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Colombian athletes have won a total of 38 Olympic medals (five gold, sixteen silver and seventeen bronze) in eight different sports, with weightlifting and cycling as the most successful ones. Colombia is the third most successful South American country at the Olympic Games, after Brazil and Argentina respectively.
South American Championships: Cochabamba, Bolivia [84] 7.58 Rafael Pereira Brazil 20 March 2022 World Championships: Belgrade, Serbia [85] 7.58 A: Eduardo de Deus Brazil 28 January 2024 South American Championships: Cochabamba, Bolivia [86] High jump: 2.31 m Thiago Moura Brazil 20 March 2022 World Championships: Belgrade, Serbia [87] Pole vault ...
The South American Championships in Athletics is an athletics event which began in 1919. ... Athlete Nationality Date Meet Place Ref 100 m: 9.89 (+0.8 m/s) AR:
Anier García (born 1976), Olympic 110 m hurdles gold medalist; Raúl González (racewalker) (born 1952), Olympic gold medalist; Alberto Juantorena (born 1950), Olympic 2x track gold medalist; Iván Pedroso (born 1972), Olympic long jump gold medalist and 4x World Champion; Jefferson Pérez (born 1974), Olympic 2x race walk gold medalist and 4x ...
William Mervin Mills (born June 30, 1938), also known by his Oglala Lakota name Tamakhóčhe Theȟíla, is an American Oglala Lakota former track and field athlete who won a gold medal in the 10,000 metre run (6.2 mi) at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. His 1964 victory is considered one of the greatest Olympic upsets because he was a virtual unknown ...
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Biles became the first American gymnast to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the famous Black gymnast made headlines again, this ...
The greatest player in the history of the country is Hugo Calderano, who reached number 3 in the world in 2022 (becoming the greatest Americas player of all time), and was the first South American to reach the quarterfinals of this sport at the Olympic Games.
South American crime rings that have targeted wealthy Southern California neighborhoods for sophisticated home burglaries the last several years may now be targeting professional athletes' homes ...