Juan Ignacio Cerra
Appearance
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Born | Santa Fe, Argentina | 16 October 1976||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 5 May 2014 |
Juan Ignacio Cerra (born 16 October 1976 in Santa Fe)[1][2] is a male hammer thrower from Argentina. His personal best throw is 76.42 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Trieste. This is also the South American record.[3]
Career
[edit]He won the gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. He also has a bronze medal from the 1999 Pan American Games, and won the 1998 South American Games. He participated at the World Championships in Athletics in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005 as well as the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 [4][5] without reaching the final. He won the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2010 as one of the five best athletes from the last decade in Argentina.[6]
Personal bests
[edit]- Hammer throw: 76.42 m –
Trieste, 25 July 2001
Competition record
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Perfil de los atletas que competirán en el Mundial (in Spanish), CADA, archived from the original on 3 July 2013, retrieved 10 May 2013
- ^ Juan Ignacio Cerra - Premio Konex 2010: Atletismo (in Spanish), Fundación Konex, retrieved 10 May 2013
- ^ Area records
- ^ "Juan Ignacio Cerra - Athletics - Olympic Athlete | London 2012". Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Juan Ignacio Cerra". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Juan Ignacio Cerra - Premio Konex: Diploma al Mérito 2010".
External links
[edit]- Juan Ignacio Cerra at World Athletics
- Juan Ignacio Cerra at Olympics.com
- Juan Ignacio Cerra at Olympedia
- Juan Ignacio Cerra at the Comité Olímpico Argentino (in Spanish)
- Profile at Hammerthrow.wz.cz at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 July 2011)
- Tilastopaja biography[dead link]
Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Argentine male hammer throwers
- Olympic athletes for Argentina
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- South American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- South American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
- South American Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 1998 South American Games
- Competitors at the 2014 South American Games
- Athletes from Buenos Aires