Yoel Tapia
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Full name | Yoel Armando Tapia Gómez | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic |
11 September 1984 |||||||||||||||||||||
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Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 4 × 400 metres relay | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 400 m: 45.76 s (2010) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Yoel Armando Tapia Gómez (born September 11, 1984 in Monte Cristi) is a Dominican sprinter, who specialized in the 400 metres.[1] He won two medals for the national relay team at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also, at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.[2]
Tapia competed for the men's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, along with his teammates Pedro Mejía, Arismendy Peguero, and Carlos Yohelin Santa. He ran on the anchor leg of the second heat, with an individual-split time of 45.79 seconds. Tapia and his team finished the relay in last place for a seasonal best time of 3:04.31, failing to advance into the final.[3]
References
External links
- Yoel Tapia profile at IAAF
- NBC Olympics Profile
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- Dominican Republic sprinters
- Male sprinters
- Living people
- Olympic athletes of the Dominican Republic
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- People from Monte Cristi Province
- 1984 births
- Dominican Republic sportspeople stubs
- Central America and Caribbean athletics biography stubs