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Leonardo Diaz | |
Full Name: | Leonardo Díaz Aldana |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1975 |
Birth Place: | Bayamo, Cuba |
Country: | Cuba |
Sport: | Athletics |
Event: | F56 Shot put F56 Discus F56 Javelin |
Club: | ACLIFIM |
Leonardo Díaz Aldana (born 16 February 1975) is a Cuban Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category F56 throwing events.[1] [2]
Leonardo has competed in the shot, discus and javelin in three consecutive Paralympics. In his first in Athens in 2004 he failed to finish in the medal positions. On returning four years later to Beijing he won the gold medal in the F55/56 category discus, a feat he replicated in London in 2012.