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| Full name | Sergio Arturo Pérez Hechavarría | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 December 1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sergio Arturo Perez Hechavarria (born 26 December 1968 [1] ) is a Cuban Paralympic judoka. In 2000 he won the gold medal in the men's 60kg. He won another gold medal in 2004 but was stripped of the medal for doping. [2]
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