Alexis Chiclana

Alexis Chiclana
Personal information
Full name Alexis Chiclana Melendez
Nationality  Puerto Rico
Born (1987-02-02) 2 February 1987
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 86 kg (190 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 90 kg

Alexis Chiclana Meléndez (born February 2, 1987 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican judoka, who played for the middleweight category.[1] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.[2]

Chiclana represented Puerto Rico at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's middleweight class (90 kg). He lost the first preliminary match, with an ippon and an uchi mata (inner thigh throw), to Spain's David Alarza.[3][4]

References

  1. "Alexis Chiclana". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  2. "Judo: More Medals for Male Judo". Mayaguez 2010. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  3. "Men's Middleweight (90kg/198 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. "Iglesias rozó el bronce y Alarza abandonó lesionado, en otro día sin suerte" [Iglesias lost bronze, Alarza left injured, another day with no luck] (in Spanish). Hoy Sport. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2012.

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