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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]
Cuba competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance in the Olympics, except for some editions. Cuban athletes did not attend in two Olympic Games, where they joined the Soviet and North Korean boycott. Cuban Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1972. A total of 151 athletes, 97 men and 54 women, competed in 18 sports.
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