Sergio Ignacio Salazar López (born March 23, 1986 in

Medellín Medellín ( or ), officially the Municipality of Medellín ( es, Municipio de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central re ...

) is a Colombian professional

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cyclist. He represented his nation

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at the

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, and has claimed multiple Colombian national titles to his career resume in the men's elite category. Salazar currently races and trains professionally for GW Shimano BMX Cycling Team, under his personal coach Jorge Wilson Jaramillo. Salazar qualified for the Colombian squad, along with Andrés Jiménez Caicedo and Augusto Castro, in men's BMX cycling at the

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by receiving one of the nation's three available berths from the

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based on his top-ten performance in the BMX World Rankings. Salazar started his morning session by grabbing the sixth prelims seed in 36.145 seconds, but he could not match a more stellar ride in his quarterfinal heat with 15 positioning points and a fifth-place finish, narrowly missing out the semifinals by a two-point deficit.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Salazar, Sergio 1986 births Living people Colombian male cyclists BMX riders Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Colombia Cyclists from Medellín 21st-century Colombian people Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games