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| Yaniel Velázquez | |
| Fullname: | Yaniel Velázquez Garcia |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1987 |
| Birth Place: | Havana, Cuba |
| Weight: | 670NaN0 |
| Sport: | Modern pentathlon |
| Coach: | Alejandro Guarch, Wilfredo Moreno Matos |
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Yaniel Velázquez Garcia (born 12 July 1987 in Havana) is a Cuban modern pentathlete.[1] He won a silver medal for the men's event at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which earned him a qualifying place for the Olympics, with an impressive score of 5,344 points.[2]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Velazquez became the nation's first pentathlete to compete in the men's event. During the competition, he made a strong start in the early segments, but struggled to maintain his position in the entire event, when he set the slowest time of 2:16.38 in freestyle swimming. He managed to attain fair scores for horse riding and cross-country running; however, these were insufficient for him to place near the top, placing fifteenth out of thirty-six competitors in the men's event, with a total score of 5,292 points.[3]