Haislan Garcia
 Veranes in red at the 2012 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||
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| Born |
March 4, 1983 Guanabacoa, Cuba | ||||||||||||
| Residence | New Westminster, British Columbia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Country |
 Canada | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||
Medal record
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Haislan Garcia Veranes (born March 4, 1983 in Guanabacoa, Cuba) is a male freestyle wrestler from Canada. Garcia immigrated to Canada in 2004.[1] He participated in the Men's freestyle 66 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the Round of 8, losing to Mehdi Taghavi from Iran. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals, losing to eventual champion, Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu.[2] In 2015 he won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.[1]
In July 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 COC Profile
- ↑ 2012 Olympic results
- ↑ Gillespie, Kerry (23 June 2016). "Canadian wrestlers keep getting up off the mat". Toronto, Canada: Toronto Star. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ↑ "Canadian Wrestling Team Nominated for Rio 2016". www.wrestling.ca/. Wrestling Canada. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
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