Wesley Joel Vázquez Vázquez (born 27 March 1994) is a

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n middle distance

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Career

He reached the finals in the

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at the

2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics The 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition for athletes qualifying as juniors (born 1993 or later) which was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on 10–15 ...

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. On July 7, 2014, Vázquez won the Meeting International de Montreuil with a time of 1:45.65.

Personal bests

Outdoor

*400 m: 46.72 sec –

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, 11 September 2020 *600 m: 1:14.85 min -

Caguas Caguas (, ) is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey. Caguas was founded ...

, 1 Aug 2020 *800 m: 1:43.83 min –

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, 24 August 2019 *1500 m: 3:46.98 min – Mayagüez, 16 April 2016

Achievements

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Sports reference biographyTilastopaja biography
1994 births Living people Sportspeople from Bayamón, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican male middle-distance runners Olympic track and field athletes of Puerto Rico Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 2013 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{PuertoRico-athletics-bio-stub