Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, Brazil was the second sport a gold medal at the Olympic Games to win with a victory in the triple jump at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki (Finland).
Rossana De Los Rios is a famous tennis player from Paraguay. She was junior world champion 1992nd Rossana Neffa is Gustavo Alfredo, who was married a football player football. She said: “I have come very far in tennis. In 1992 I won the Junior Roland Garros, but I made decisions and I am satisfied with my life. [Gustavo] played football in the yard of Italy and Argentina, with the national team and the Olympic Games and he was so good, but now he speaks more tennis. Times have changed for women, and it helps me to be able to play quietly. Now my goal is to return to the top 100. I’m good but since two years ago, I had knee injuries and wrist, and I had to leave. Maybe I will in a few years into retirement, and I want to help ensure that girls develop and Paraguay are in a position to have a future, but until then, when I’m in the top 30 maybe I will move this project. “This sport was born 16th September 1975 in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay. Today he lives in the United States.
Francisco Cabañas was the first Mexican boxer to win an Olympic medal. He won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932.
Claudia Poll Ahrens (Costa Rica) was the first Latin American swimmer in Olympic history to two medals at a single Olympic Games (Sydney’2000 win). It is the greatest athlete of the Central America of all time …
Luis Brunetto won the silver medal in the triple jump at the Paris Games in 1924. Brunetto Argentina was the sport, first to win an Olympic medal for his country.
The Brazilian men’s volleyball team won the World Cup in 2007. The champions were Bruno Rezende, Marcelo Elgart, Andre Heller, Samuel Fuchs, Gilberto Godoy Filho, Murilo Andres, Andre Luiz da Silva Nascimento, Sergio Dutra Santos, Anderson Rodrigues, Gustavo Endres, Rodrigo Santana, Dante Guimaraes Amaral.
Xavier Moreno and Jefferson Perez won gold medals at the Pan American Games in Rio 2007th The drivers are sporting hero in Ecuador now …
Cali (Colombia) to host the FIBA Basketball World Championship for women 1975th Final: 1.USSR / Soviet Union (now Russia), 2.Japan, 3.Czechoslovakia (currently Czech Republic / Slovakia), 4.Italy, 5.South Korea, 6 Mexico 7.Colombia, 8 United States, 9 Hungary, 10.Australia, 11.Canada, 12.Brazil, 13.Senegal.
The most popular sports are soccer in Mexico, wrestling, basketball, baseball, athletics, Basque pelota, underwater sports, tennis, martial arts, boxing, cycling and horse riding.
Jeanette Campbell (Argentina / swimmer) was the first Latin American athlete, who won the Olympic medal. She won the silver medal in the 100m freestyle at the Games in Berlin 1936.
Brazil has 10 athletes for the Winter Games Torino 2006 sent (Italy). The delegation had athletes in four sports: Alpine skiing, bobsleigh, skiing and snowboarding.
Paraguay has had many famous athletes. Who: Jose Luis Chilavert (football and one of the best goalkeepers in the 1990s), Victor Manuel Pecci (tennis), Nery Kennedy (Athletics / South American champion), Carlos Gamarra (Silver Medal Olympic Football Tournament 2004), Ramon Jimenez Gaona (Athletics / South American champion) …
Baseball is the national sport of the Panama …
Francisco Morochito “Rodriguez (boxer) is the only Venezuelan athletes to win an Olympic gold medal. Francis was born September 20, 1945 in Cumana, Venezuela (South America).
Montevideo (Uruguay) hosting the World Cup 1930th Final: 1.Uruguay, 2.Argentina, 3.Yugoslavia (now Serbia), 4.Use, 5.Chile, 6.Brazil, 7.France, 8.Paraguay, 9.Romania, 10.Peru 11 Belgium, 12.Bolivia, 13.Mexico.
Gustavo Kuerten was one of the best tennis player in the world. He has 28 international tournaments (St. Petersburg, Brazil Open, Auckland, Roland Garros, Monte Carlo, Acapulco, Rome, Hamburg, Cincinnati, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, won Indianapolis …).
Fact File
Name: Gustavo Kuerten
Nickname: “Guga”
Nationality: Brazil
Ancestry: German
Location: Florianopolis, Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Born: 10 / 9 / 1976
Height: 1.91
Weight: 75 kg
Idol: Mahatma Gandhi (former human rights activist)
Favorite singer: Bob Marley
Favorite Author / Author: Paulo Coelho
Perfume: Eternity (Calvin Klein)
Best friend: Carlos Moya (Spanish tennis player), Nicolas Lapentti (Ecuador tennis player), Fernando Meligeni (Brazilian player).
Men’s Tennis Association rankings (1997-2000)
2000: 1
1999: 10
1998: 20
1997: 66
Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer. Alejandro is of Italian descent, Africa and Peru. He has published more than seventy-five research work in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, on world issues, Olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next test is called “the Dictator and Alicia Alonso.” He is an expert in foreign policy. Alejandro is the first author who has published an encyclopedia of the World Book Day in Latin America.
He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), José Gamarra (former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, from 1970 to 1982), Hillary Clinton (former First Lady of the United States) and Jimmy Carter (former President of the United States). Alejandro poorest, said: “The person I admire most is José Gamarra. He’s professional and personal lives to the sport has given. José played an important role in the promotion of Olympism in Bolivia is a third world country s and Latin America. His biography is interesting. “The Sportsman, he is most admired Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman ball.” The African American sports is my idol. .. “
