Adhemar Ferreira da Silva became Brazil's second athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics when he won the triple jump Olympic Games 1952 in Helsinki (Finland).
Rossana De Los Rios is a famous tennis player from Paraguay. He was junior champion in 1992. Rossana is married to Gustavo Neffa, Alfredo, who was a soccer player. He once said: "I could have gone very far in tennis. In 1992 I won the Junior Roland Garros but I make the decisions and happy with my life. [Gustavo] football played in the leagues of Italy and Argentina, with the national team and the Olympic Games and that was good at it, but now speaks more courts. Times have changed for women and it helps me to play alone. Now my goal is to return to the top 100. I'm fine, but for two years I had the knee injuries at the wrists and had to return it. Maybe they retire in a few years and then I'd like to help develop girls from Paraguay and are capable of future, but by then, if I'm in the top 30 best thing I will defer the project. "This athlete was born on 16 September 1975 in Asuncion, Paraguay's capital. Currently, she resides in the United States.
Francisco Cabañas ± a as was first Mexican boxer to win an Olympic medal. He won a medal silver at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1932.
Claudia Poll Ahrens (Costa Rica) became the first Latin American swimmer in the history of the Olympics to win two individual medals in a Games (Sydney'2000). She is the best athlete in Central America of all time …
Luis Brunetto medal silver in the triple jump at the 1924 Paris Games. Brunetto of Argentina became the first athlete to win an Olympic medal for his country.
The men's volleyball team from Brazil won the World Cup in 2007. Champions were Bruno Rezende, Marcelo Elgart, Andrà © Heller, Samuel Fuchs, Gilberto Godoy Filho Murilo Andres, Andres © Luiz da Silva Nascimento, Sergio Dutra Santos, Anderson Rodrigues, Gustavo Endres, Rodrigo Santana, Dante Guimaraes Amaral.
Xavier Moreno and Jefferson Perez won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2007. Brokers are sports heroes in Ecuador now …
Cali (Colombia) Women's World Basketball hosted the FIBA Cup in 1975. Final standings: 1.USSR / Soviet Union (now Russia), 2.Japan, Republic 3.Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic / Slovakia), 4.Italy, 5.South Korea, 6. Mexico, 7.Colombia, 8. United States, 9. Hungary 10.Australia, 11.Can, 12.Brazil, 13.Senegal.
The most popular sports in Mexico are football, wrestling, basketball, baseball, track, jai alai, underwater sports, tennis, martial arts, boxing, cycling and riding.
Jeanette Campbell (Argentina / swimmer) was the first Latin American female athlete to win an Olympic medal. She won the silver medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Brazil sent 10 athletes to the 2006 Winter Games in Turin (Italy). The Brazilian delegation had athletes competing in 4 sports: Alpine skiing, bobsleigh, cross country skiing and snowboarding.
Paraguay has had many famous athletes. Who they are: Jose Luis Chilavert (Football / one of the best goalkeepers in the 1990s), Victor Manuel Pecci (tennis), Nery Kennedy (track and field / Champion South America), Carlos Gamarra (Olympic silver medalist football, 2004), Ramón Jiménez Gaona (Athletics / South American champion) …
The Baseball is the national sport in Panama …
Francisco "morochito" Rodríguez (boxer) is the only Venezuelan athletes to win Olympic gold medal. Francis was born on September 20, 1945 in Cumana, Venezuela (South America).
Montevideo (Uruguay) hosted the Cup World Cup in 1930. Final standings: 1.Uruguay, 2.Argentina, 3.Yugoslavia (now Serbia), 4.USA, 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 players in the world. He has won 28 international tournaments (St. Petersburg, Brazil Open, Auckland, Roland Garros, Monte Carlo, Acapulco, Rome, Hamburg, Cincinnati, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Indianapolis …).
Fact File
Name: Gustavo Kuerten
Nickname: "Guga"
Nationality: Brazil
Ancestry: German
Residence: Florianopolis, Santa Catarina (Brazil)
Date of birth: 10 / 9 / 1976
Height: 1.91m
Weight: 75 kg
Idol: Mahatma Gandhi (former activist human rights)
Favorite singer: Bob Marley
Famous writer / Author: Paulo Coelho
Perfume: Eternity "(Calvin Klein)
Best friends: Carlos Moya (Spanish tennis player), Nicolas Lapentti (Ecuador tennis), Fernando Meligeni (Brazil player).
Men's Tennis Association Ranking (1997-2000)
2000: 1
1999: 10
1998: 20
1997: 66
Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer. Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry. He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called “The Dictator and Alicia Alonso”. He is an expert on foreign affairs. Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latin America.
He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), José Gamarra (former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee ,1970- 1982), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). Alejandro said: “The person who I admire the most is José Gamarra . He devoted his professional and personal life to sport. José played an important role in the promotion of Olympism in Bolivia -it is one of the Third World`s poorest countries- and Latin America. His biography is interesting”. The sportspeople he most admire is Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman. “This African-American sportswoman is my idol… “
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