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Óscar Soto | |
Fullname: | Óscar Soto Carrillo |
Residence: | CdMx |
Birth Date: | 9 June 1983 |
Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
Height: | 1.79 m |
Weight: | 72 kg |
Sport: | Modern pentathlon |
Coach: | Gabriel Gil Marin, Akhenatón Hernandez, Gearnys Francoi, Fernando Lopez and Pavel Estrada |
Retired: | 2012 |
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Óscar Soto Carrillo (born 9 June 1983 in Mexico City) is a two-time Olympic modern pentathlete from Mexico.[1] [2] He also won silver medal at the 2002 Junior World Championships in Sydney, Australia, also individual and team gold medals at the 2006 and 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia, and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and at the 2011 Pan American Games in his home nation, Guadalajara, Mexico.[3]
Soto achieved his best results, and performed consistently in each of the five sporting disciplines for the men's event at the Olympics, when he finished eighth in 2008, and fourteenth in 2012.