Cristóbal Silva

Cristóbal Silva
Personal information
Full name Cristóbal Mauricio Silva Ibaceta
Born (1979-10-12) 12 October 1979
Santiago, Chile
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Discipline Mountain biking
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country
Infobox last updated on
October 26, 2013

Cristóbal Mauricio Silva Ibaceta (born October 12, 1979 in Santiago) is a Chilean amateur mountain biker.[1] He has won five Chilean national championship titles in men's mountain biking, and also represented his nation Chile in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008).[2]

Silva spotted officially on his major international debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he scored a fortieth place in the men's cross-country race with only a single lap left to complete.[3][4][5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Silva qualified for his second Chilean squad in the men's cross-country race by receiving an automatic berth from the Chilean Cycling Federation (Spanish: Federación Ciclista de Chile) and the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), based on his best performance at the World and Pan American Championships and at the Mountain Biking World Series.[6] Silva could not upgrade again a complete cross-country distance from his ride in Athens, as he ended his course with only two laps to go and a thirty-sixth-place finish.[7][8][9]

References

  1. ↑ "Cristóbal Silva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Cristóbal Silva gana circuito de mountainbike en los faldeos cordilleranos de La Florida" [Cristóbal Silva wins the mountain bike circuit on the mountains of La Florida] (in Spanish). La Segunda. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  3. ↑ "Cycling: Men's Cross-Country Race". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. ↑ Jones, Rob (26 August 2004). "Absalon perfect as France defends gold". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  5. ↑ "Cristóbal Silva bajará el telón a la participación chilena en Atenas 2004" [Cristóbal Silva closes down the curtain for Chile in Athens 2004] (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 26 August 2004. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  6. ↑ "Beijing 2008: mountainbike masculino aseguró otro cupo para Chile" [Beijing 2008: A male mountain biker has secured another spot for Chile] (in Spanish). La Nación (Chile). 8 January 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  7. ↑ "Men's Cross-Country Race". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  8. ↑ Jones, Rob (23 August 2008). "French dominate the rest of the World". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  9. ↑ "Cristóbal Silva finalizó 36º en el mountainbike masculino" [Cristóbal Silva finished 36th in the men's mountain bike] (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2013.

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