Vicente Orlando Huacón Alvarado (born April 5, 1989 in
Guayaquil
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) is an amateur Greco-Roman wrestler from
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...
. He competed for the
66 kg category (welterweight division) in men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in
London
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, after winning the gold medal at the Pan American Qualification Tournament in
Kissimmee, Florida
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,
United States
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. Huacon was eliminated in the second qualifying round, against Egypt's Ashraf El-Gharably, with a technical score of 2–5, and a classification score of 1–3.
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1989 births
Living people
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic wrestlers for Ecuador
Ecuadorian male sport wrestlers
Sportspeople from Guayaquil
South American Games bronze medalists for Ecuador
South American Games medalists in wrestling
Competitors at the 2014 South American Games
21st-century Ecuadorian people
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