Sergio Lafuente

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Lafuentes Quad at the 2012 Dakar Rally

Sergio Lafuente , full name Sergio Roberto Lafuente Rocha (born May 22, 1966 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan weightlifter and today's rally driver .

Career

The 1.70-meter-tall, Maldonado- born weightlifter Lafuente, supervised by technical trainer Andrejz Skyiiba , who was initially involved in football in his youth, took part in the 1991 Pan American Games for his home country . He was also in the squad for the Uruguayan team for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . There he started in the light heavyweight category (up to 82 kg) and finished 26th in the final ranking with a lifted 280 kg. He was also part of the Uruguayan team at the 1994 South American Games and the 1995 and 1999 Pan American Games . A statement attributed to him that he also took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics and came in 14th there can not be verified, according to the information provided by the Uruguayan Olympic Committee (COU) on its website. In 2001 , Lafuente , who started for the team champion of that year Gimnasio Uruguayo de Musculación y Halterofilia (GUMHA), also won the Uruguayan championship in the individual category up to 85 kg. He also took part in the 2002 South American Games in Brazil.

In the meantime, the sportsman who works as a transport company and is also written as La Fuente is active as a rally driver. Lafuente took part in the Uruguayo Rally and the Argentine Cross Country competition in class N4 . He also competed in the Dakar Rally . There he finished 14th in 2011 and thus the last of around 30 vehicles originally started in the Quad category . At the same event in 2012 he was able to achieve two stage wins for the Uruguay Racing Team with a Raptor 700 Yamaha on the first two stages. In the final ranking, he finished fifth overall.

On December 31, 2012, it was announced that Lafuente, the married father of three daughters, had been admitted to hospital with kidney failure after a blood transfusion with an obviously contaminated blood bank. He was in a life-threatening condition and was in a coma. He received the blood transfusion to speed up the healing process for a shoulder injury. A few days later, however, sources from the Uruguayan Ministry of Health announced that the cause of the incident was not contaminated blood, but rather personal misconduct on the part of the doctor, whereupon criminal proceedings were intended.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barcelona ´92, los Juegos del Profesionalismo (Spanish) in La República of July 23, 2004, accessed on August 14, 2012
  2. ↑ El uruguayo Sergio Lafuente, de Maldonado, lidera en cuatriciclos y esconde una particular historia; by Roberto Berasategui. ( Memento of March 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on August 14, 2012
  3. ↑ ATLANTA 1996 ( Memento of August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) - Uruguayan team composition at www.cou.org.uy, accessed on August 14, 2012
  4. ↑ Campeones Nacionales 2001 (Spanish) in La República of March 11, 2002, accessed on March 9, 2014
  5. ↑ BRASIL 2002 ( memento of March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - Uruguayan team composition on www.cou.org.uy, accessed on August 14, 2012
  6. ↑ Lafuente internado grave (Spanish) at www.ovaciondigital.com.uy of December 31, 2012, accessed on January 1, 2013
  7. ↑ Sergio Lafuente, internado grave - Peleando (Spanish) at www.futbol.com.uy from January 1, 2013, accessed on January 1, 2013
  8. ↑ MSP demanda a médico de Lafuente - Reiniciar (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy from January 5, 2013, accessed on January 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lafuente, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lafuente Rocha, Sergio Roberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan weightlifter and rally driver
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo