Juan Ignacio Cerra

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Juan Ignacio Cerra (born October 16, 1976 in San Vicente , Buenos Aires Province ) is an Argentine hammer thrower .

At the Athletics South American Championships in 1997 in Mar del Plata and at the Ibero-American Championships in 1998, he won bronze. In 1999 he won the South American Championships in Bogotá , won bronze at the Pan American Games in Winnipeg and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Athletics Championships in Seville .

In 2000 a victory at the Ibero-American Championships was followed by a preliminary round at the Olympic Games in Sydney . The following year he defended his title at the South American Championships in 2001 in Manaus, but did not get past the first round again at the World Championships in Edmonton .

In 2003 he triumphed at the South American Championships in Barquisimeto and at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and failed in qualifying at the World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis .

In 2004 he won again at the Ibero-American Championships and retired from the Olympic Games in Athens in the first round.

In 2005 he managed the fourth victory in a row at the South American Championships in Cali , but at the World Championships in Helsinki he again missed out on qualifying. Victories at the Ibero-American Championships and at the South American Championships in Tunja in 2006 and in São Paulo in 2007, followed by a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro.

In 2008 he defended his title at the Ibero-American Championships and retired from the preliminary round of the Olympic Games in Athens .

In 2009 a victory at the South American Championships in Lima was followed by another preliminary round at the World Cup in Berlin , and in 2010 he won silver at the Ibero-American Championships. In 2011 he won the South American Championships in Buenos Aires for the eighth time in a row, and had to accept his sixth elimination in qualifying at the World Cup in Daegu . At the Pan American Games in Guadalajara he was sixth.

In 2012 he won bronze at the Ibero-American Championships. At the Olympic Games in London , he was eliminated in the preliminary round.

He won silver at the 2013 South American Championships in Cartagena.

On July 25, 2001, he set the current South American record in Trieste with 76.42 m.

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