Juan Guillermo Urán Salazar (born January 3, 1983 in Medellín, Antioquia) is a male diver from Colombia, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 2000. He claimed two gold medals at the

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. In the

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, he and his teammate

Víctor Ortega Víctor Hugo Ortega Serna (born January 27, 1988, in Medellín, Antioquia) is a male diver from Colombia, who competed in the 2008 Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Be ...

reached the rank six in the 10m synchronized platform event, the best position ever achieved by a Colombian diver in that particular event so far.

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* * 1983 births Living people Colombian male divers Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Divers at the 2007 Pan American Games Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for Colombia Sportspeople from Medellín Pan American Games bronze medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in diving Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Colombia Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Divers at the 2003 Pan American Games South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in diving Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in diving Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games 20th-century Colombian people 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub