Allan Segura
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Full name | Allan Francisco Segura Medina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Costa Rica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Curridabat, San José, Costa Rica | 23 December 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 25 December 2014. |
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Segura and the second or maternal family name is Medina.
Allan Francisco Segura Medina (born December 23, 1980 in Curridabat, San José[1]) is a Costa Rican race walker.[2] He represented Costa Rica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he became the nation's flag bearer at the opening ceremony.[3][4] He competed in the men's 20 km race walk, where he finished only in thirty-ninth place, with a time of 1:27:10.[5] Segura also achieved his best result in race walking, when he finished thirty-second at the 2008 IAAF World Race Walking Cup in Cheboksary, Russia, with the fastest possible time of 1:23:12.
Personal bests
Track walk
- 20,000 m: 1:25:06.83 hrs – San José, 26 June 2011
Road walk
- 20 km: 1:23:12 hrs – Cheboksary, 10 May 2008
- 50 km: 4:25:15 hrs – Chihuahua, 22 February 2014
Achievements
References
- ↑ Gutiérrez, Fernando (2 March 2009), Campeonato Nacional de Marcha - Allan gana competencia, pero no pudo vencerse a sí mismo - Segura cruzó la meta de primero, pero no pudo bajar su propio tiempo - Gripe y falta de contrincantes que lo presionaran fueron escollos para el atleta (in Spanish), La Nación, retrieved May 17, 2014
- ↑ "Allan Segura". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ Fonseca Hidalgo, Francisco (9 July 2008). "Allan Segura el Abanderado" [Allan Segura, the flag bearer] (in Spanish). Diario Extra. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ "List of Flagbearers Beijing 2008" (PDF). Olympic.org. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ "Men's 20km Walk". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ Irregular mark: Short course
External links
- Profile – CON-CRC (Spanish)
- NBC Olympics Profile
- Allan Segura profile at IAAF
- Sports reference biography
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