Alejo Vélez
Medal record | ||
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Track and field (athletics) | ||
Representing Spain | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
1992 Barcelona | High Jump - b2 | |
1996 Atlanta | High Jump - F10-11 |
Alejo Vélez is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category F11 jumping events.
Vélez competed in his first paralympics in his home country in 1992 as well as travelling to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Paralympics. In 1992 he competed in the long jump, triple jump and pentathlon finishing fifth, fourth and eighth as well as setting a new paralympic games record in the high jump to win gold by 20 cm. He failed to register a performance in the 1996 long jump and then despite jumping higher than four years ago lost out to Belarusian Oleg Chapel in the high jump. [1]
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- Paralympic athletes of Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Spain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Spain
- Spanish male long jumpers
- Spanish male high jumpers
- Spanish male triple jumpers
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Spanish athletics biography stubs
- Spanish Paralympic medalist stubs