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| Full name | Mateo Carmona Garcia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 December 2001 [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | BMX racing | ||||||||||||||
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Mateo Carmona Garcia (born 23 December 2001) is a Colombian BMX racer. He competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
In 2021, he won the gold medal at the Junior Pan American Games, held in Cali, Colombia. [2]
He was selected to represent Colombia at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. [3] Racing at the Games, he made it through the preliminary round on 1 August 2024, to race in the semi finals. [4] [5]
He is from the Antioquia Department of Colombia. [6]
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