Cristóbal Mauricio Silva Ibaceta (born October 12, 1979 in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

) is a Chilean amateur mountain biker. He has won five Chilean national championship titles in men's mountain biking, and also represented his nation

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in two editions of the Olympic Games (2004 and 2008). Silva spotted officially on his major international debut at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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, where he scored a fortieth place in the men's cross-country race with only a single lap left to complete. At the

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, Silva qualified for his second Chilean squad in the men's cross-country race by receiving an automatic berth from the

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( es, Federación Ciclista de Chile) and the

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(UCI), based on his best performance at the World and Pan American Championships and at the Mountain Biking World Series. Silva could not upgrade again a complete cross-country distance from his ride in Athens, as he ended his course with only two laps to go and a thirty-sixth-place finish.

References

External links

NBC 2008 Olympics profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Silva, Cristobal 1979 births Living people Chilean male cyclists Cross-country mountain bikers Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Chile Sportspeople from Santiago 20th-century Chilean people 21st-century Chilean people