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| Full name | Lázaro Rivas Scull | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1975 Havana, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 22 December 2013 (aged 38) San José de las Lajas, Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lázaro Rivas Scull (4 April 1975 – 22 December 2013) [1] was a Cuban wrestler who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was born in Havana and died in San José de las Lajas. [2]
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Samir Benchenaf is a retired amateur Algerian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He qualified as a lone wrestler for the Algerian squad in the men's 55 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by receiving a wildcard entry from the International Federation of Associated Wrestling (FILA). He lost two straight matches each to Cuba's Lázaro Rivas (0–11) and Iran's Hassan Rangraz (0–10) due to the ten-point superiority limit, leaving him on the bottom of the pool and finishing twentieth overall in the final standings.
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