Haislan Garcia
Veranes in red at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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March 4, 1983 Guanabacoa, Cuba |
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| Residence | New Westminster, British Columbia | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||
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 Canada
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Haislan Garcia Veranes (born March 4, 1983 in Guanabacoa, Cuba) is a male freestyle wrestler from Canada. Garcia immigrated to Canada in 2004. He participated in the Men's freestyle 66 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the Round of 8, losing to Mehdi Taghavi from Iran. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he reached the quarter-finals, losing to eventual champion, Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu. In 2015 he won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.
In July 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.
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