Juan Urán

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Juan Urán Diving
Personal information
Surname: Juan Guillermo Urán Salazar
Nationality: ColombiaColombia Colombia
Discipline (s) : Artistic / tower / synchronized jumping
Society: Alcatraz Medellin
Birthday: January 3, 1983
Place of birth: Medellin
Size: 168 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Medals

Juan Guillermo Urán Salazar (born January 3, 1983 in Medellín ) is a Colombian water diver . He starts in artificial jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board as well as in 10-meter tower diving. He is trained by Oscar Urrea.

Urán took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in Sydney at the age of 17 . He started from the 3-meter board and 10-meter tower, but was eliminated in the preliminary fight. At the Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo in 2003 , he finished eleventh on the 3-meter board and eighth on the 10-meter tower. He also started at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and improved especially in jumping from the 3-meter board, where he reached the final and was twelfth. In diving he was eliminated again in the preliminary fight. In 2007, Urán finally took part in the World Cup in Melbourne for the first time . He started in jumping from the 1-meter and 3-meter board, but could not survive the preliminary fights. In the same year he was able to win the bronze medal in the 10 m synchronized jumping with Víctor Ortega at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro and thus win his first international medal. Urán played his third Olympic Games in Beijing . From the 3-meter board and 10-meter tower, he was able to reach the finals and occupy places ten and eleven. He also started with Ortega in the 10-m synchronized jumping and achieved his best position so far at the Olympic Games with sixth place.

In 2010, Urán was found to have been using cocaine after a positive doping test and was banned by the national association for two years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juan Guillermo Urán Bio. (No longer available online.) In: 2008 NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012 ; accessed on February 20, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.2008.nbcolympics.com
  2. ↑ Antioquia Rodea a Juan Guillermo Urán, pese a dopaje. In: El Tiempo . November 13, 2010, accessed February 20, 2012 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Uran, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Urán Salazar, Juan Guillermo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian diver
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Medellin