Geiner Mosquera

Geiner Alonso Mosquera Becerra (born January 8, 1984 in Chigorodó, Antioquia) is a Colombian sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres.[1] He won a gold medal at the 2008 Ibero-American Championships, with a time of 46.63 seconds.

Geiner Mosquera
Personal information
Full nameGeiner Alonso Mosquera Becerra
Nationality Colombia
Born (1984-01-08) 8 January 1984
Chigorodó, Antioquia, Colombia
Height1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
Event(s)Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)400 m: 45.86 s (2009)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Colombia
Ibero-American Championships
2008 Iquique400 m

Playing career

Mosquera represented Colombia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 400 metres. He ran in the fifth heat against seven other athletes, including Belgium's Jonathan Borlée and United States' LaShawn Merritt, both of whom were heavy favorites in this event. He finished the race in seventh place by forty-four hundredths of a second (0.44) behind Grenada's Alleyne Francique, with a time of 46.59 seconds. Mosquera, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as he placed forty-fifth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.[2]

gollark: I mean, if it would be 1 good if everyone did X, but 0.000001 good if I did X, then the possibility of 1 good which I *can't cause* doesn't affect the goodness of me doing it, unless you expect that I can cause that, which is probably wrong.
gollark: Which is correct, though?
gollark: Those are literally the complements of each other, so you can't have one matter and the other not matter.
gollark: I cannot, say, begin taking public transport 50% more, and immediately make everyone else do so.
gollark: Yes. Which is nevertheless not hugely large.

References
  1. "Geiner Mosquera". Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  2. "Men's 400m Round 1 – Heat 5". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2013.


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