José Guerra (diver)
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José Antonio Guerra Oliva (born August 9, 1979 in Santiago de Cuba) is a male diver from Cuba. He represented his native country at four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 (Sydney, Australia). Guerra won a gold and three silver medals at Pan American Games during his career. He also won 2 gold medals at Central American Games becoming the only Cuban male diver in history achieving this.
The Cuban diver is the only diver in his country to win a gold medal at World University Games in 1999 Palma de Mallorca adding a silver and a bronze in Beijing in 2001. Being the only Cuban diver to lead the Diving World Ranking in the history, back in 2005. Winner of Forty (40) medals at the Diving Grand Prix and 130 medals total along his career (until April 2011) (98 in international events and 32 in nationals), and is considered the best diver in Cuba of all time. His coach is Lino Socorro Aleman, from Matanzas, Cuba.[citation needed]
Since his retirement from diving, Guerra now works as a coach for Team Canada.
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- 1979 births
- Living people
- Cuban male divers
- Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic divers for Cuba
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in diving
- Summer World University Games medalists in diving
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Divers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in diving
- Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- 21st-century Cuban people
- Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
- North American diving (sport) biography stubs
- Cuban sportspeople stubs