Samuel Colmenares ( Aragua) is a

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competing mainly in category T46 sprint events. He competed in the

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. There he won a bronze medal in the men's 400 metres T46 event and went out in the first round of the men's 800 metres - T46 event

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* Paralympic athletes for Venezuela Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Venezuela Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2011 Parapan American Games Medalists at the 2019 Parapan American Games Venezuelan male middle-distance runners Sportspeople from Aragua 20th-century Venezuelan people 21st-century Venezuelan people {{Venezuela-Paralympic-medalist-stub