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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 | Race walking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 25 December 2014. |
Allan Francisco Segura Medina (born December 23, 1980) [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 in thirty-ninth place, with a time of 1:27:10. [5] Segura 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.
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