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| Full name | Diego Alejandro Arboleda Ospina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 August 1996 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | BMX racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Diego Alejandro Arboleda Ospina (born 16 August 1996) is a Colombian BMX racer. He won the bronze medal at the 2023 UCI BMX Racing World Cup and was selected for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
He is from Girardota in the Antioquia Department of Colombia. [2] His brother Juan Pablo was also an international rider before training in medicine. The pair became interest in BMX when they were four years-old through a family friend, and received bikes as Christmas presents the following year. He also has a sister, Laura. [3]
He had to have hip and femur surgery following a fall during training in 2018 and he left the race track at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru on a stretcher following a bad race crash. [4] Nevertheless, he returned to racing, and in 2021 he returned to Lima and won the BMX Pan American Championships. [5]
In May 2022, he became the first Colombian man to lead the world rankings. [6] He won the opening race of the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Cup on 28 May 2022 in Glasgow, Scotland. [7] He was a silver medalist at the 2022 South American Games in Asunción, Paraguay. [8]
He won the bronze medal at the conclusion of the 2023 UCI BMX Racing World Cup. [9]
He was selected to represent Colombia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [10] Racing at the Games, he made it through the preliminary round on 1 August 2024, to race in the semi finals. [11] [12]
Sports in Colombia includes professional sports leagues, as well as amateur leagues for numerous sports. Football, cycling, and roller skating are the most popular sports in Colombia. The Government of Colombia sponsors numerous individuals and teams nationally and internationally through the Ministry of Culture to enable sportspeople to represent Colombia in competition. The achievements of professional sportspeople are a source of national pride for Colombians.
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