Atilio Vásquez (born November 9, 1959) is an

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. He competed in the mid to late 1980s. At the

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, Vásquez was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and K-1 1000 m events. Four years later in

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, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 1000 m event.

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