Osvaldo Suárez
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Born | Wilde, Buenos Aires | 17 March 1934||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 16 February 2018 | (aged 83)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Osvaldo Roberto Suárez (March 17, 1934 in Wilde – 16 February 2018)[1] was a long-distance runner from Argentina who won four gold medals at the Pan American Games. He was punished by the Revolución Libertadora (The Liberating Revolution) and blamed for receiving favors to travel (even being a famous and successful athlete), so he could not be at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. After that, he represented his native country at two Summer Olympics, in 1960 and 1964. After retiring from his running career, he became a professional athletics coach.
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- (in Spanish) Interview[permanent dead link]
- sports-reference
Categories:
- 1934 births
- 2018 deaths
- People from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine male long-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1955 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Argentina
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina
- Olympic athletes of Argentina
- Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Argentine athletics biography stubs