Diego Arboleda Explained

Diego Arboleda
Full Name:Diego Alejandro Arboleda Ospina
Birth Date:1996 8, df=yes[1]
Discipline:BMX racing
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Diego Alejandro Arboleda Ospina (born 16 August 1996) is a Colombian BMX racer. He won the bronze medal at the 2023 UCI BMX Racing World Cup and was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Early and personal life

He is from Girardota in the Antioquia Department of Colombia.[2] His brother Juan Pablo was also an international rider before training in medicine. The pair became interest in BMX when they were four years-old through a family friend, and received bikes as Christmas presents the following year. He also has a sister, Laura.[3]

Career

He had to have hip and femur surgery following a fall during training in 2018 and he left the race track at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru on a stretcher following a bad race crash.[4] Nevertheless, he returned to racing, and in 2021 he returned to Lima and won the BMX Pan American Championships.[5]

In May 2022, he became the first Colombian man to lead the world rankings.[6] He won the opening race of the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Cup on 28 May 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland.[7] He was a silver medalist at the 2022 South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay.[8]

He won the bronze medal at the conclusion of the 2023 UCI BMX Racing World Cup.[9]

He was selected to represent Colombia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[10] Racing at the Games, he made it through the preliminary round on 1 August 2024, to race in the semi finals.[11] [12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Diego Alejandro Arboleda Ospina. Eurosport. 1 August 2024.
  2. Web site: 2024 Olympic Games: the BMX excitement begins: Mariana Pajón, Carlos Ramírez and Diego Arboleda... on the charge!. eltiempo. 1 August 2024. 31 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Diego Arboleda, a proud son of Girardota. copaci.org. 1 August 2024. 12 July 2022.
  4. Web site: Diego Arboleda: Five things to know about the world's second-ranked BMX racer. olympics.com. 1 August 2024. Marta. Martin. 21 September 2022.
  5. Web site: 14 November 2021. Mariana Pajón y Diego Arboleda son los campeones de los panamericanos de BMX. 1 August 2024. revistamunociclistico.com.
  6. Web site: Diego Arboleda lidera el ranking UCI en el BMX; tres colombianos en el top 10. revistamundociclisto.com. 20 May 2022. 1 August 2024.
  7. Web site: Laura Smulders and Diego Arboleda win 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Cup opener in Glasgow . Olympics.com. 1 August 2024. 28 May 2022. Ash. Tullcoh.
  8. Web site: Mariana Pajón, queen of gold also in Asunción 2022. copaci.org. 2 August 2024. 14 October 2022.
  9. Web site: BMXDiego Arboleda finished third in the 2023 season of the UCI BMX Racing World Cups. federacioncolombianadecicismo.com. 1 August 2024. 17 October 2023.
  10. Web site: Diego Arboleda, Mateo Carmona y Carlos Ramírez en Paris 2024: horario y dónde ver los cuartos de final del BMX racing de los Juegos Olímpicos. Clarosports. 1 August 2024. 31 July 2024 .
  11. Web site: Carmona and Arboleda reach the semis; Ramírez eliminated in BMX. as.com. 2 August 2024. Felipe. Molina. 1 August 2024.
  12. Web site: Mateo Carmona and Diego Arboleda reach the BMX semi-finals at the Olympic Games. wradio. 2 August 2024. 1 August 2024.

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