Eduardo Vélez (archer)

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Eduardo Vélez at the London 2012 Summer Olympics

Eduardo Vélez with the 2012 Summer Games in London

nation MexicoMexico Mexico
birthday July 26, 1986
place of birth Guadalajara , Jalisco
size 180 cm
Weight 81 kg
Career
discipline Archery
status active
Medal table
Pan American Games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
last change: April 21, 2017

Luis Eduardo Vélez Sánchez (born July 26, 1986 in Guadalajara , Jalisco ) is a Mexican archer .

Career

Eduardo Vélez is the grandson of José Almanzor .

At the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 , Vélez won the bronze medal in the team competition. Four years later, he won silver with the Mexican team at the 2011 Pan American Games in his hometown of Guadalajara .

Vélez took part in the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing for the first time in 2008 and started there in the individual competition, but where he was eliminated by a loss to Vic Wunderle directly in the first round of the group stage. Four years later he started again for Mexico at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , where he lost and eliminated in the individual competition in the second round against Dai Xiaoxiang . In the team competition , Vélez came together with Luis Álvarez and Juan René Serrano after victories over Malaysia and France to the semi-finals, where they then lost to South Korea with 219: 224 and thus finished fourth.

Eduardo Vélez and Aída Román won the 2014 World Cup in the mixed team by beating Switzerland in the final on September 7, 2014.

Eduardo Vélez currently lives in his hometown of Guadalajara.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Beijing Olympic Games 2008: Archery Results, Individual Men , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  2. ^ Olympic Games London 2012: Archery Results, Individual Men , on olympic.org. Retrieved April 21, 2017.
  3. ^ Mexican Archer Aida Roman Wins World Archery Cup , on telesurtv.net , September 7, 2014. Retrieved April 29, 2017.