Andreas Enrique Anatole Vera Ibáñez (born 14 November 1985) is a male Swedish
racewalker
Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...
. He has represented his country at the
World Championships in Athletics
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on four occasions, from 2011 to 2017. He walked for Sweden at the
IAAF World Race Walking Team Championships seven times consecutively from 2004 to 2016. He also competed at the
European Athletics Championships
The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletic Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe.
Editions
First held, for me ...
in 2010, 2014 and 2018.
He competed in the
50 kilometres walk event at the
2015 World Championships in Athletics
The 2015 IAAF World Championships ( zh, 第十五届世界田径锦标赛), the fifteenth edition of the IAAF World Championships, were held from 22 to 30 August at the National Stadium in Beijing, China. Forty-three nations won medals, 144 of ...
in Beijing, China, but did not finish.
Born in
Öja, Gotland
Öja is a populated area, a socken (not to be confused with Parishes of the Church of Sweden, parish), on the Swedish island of Gotland. It comprises the same area as the Registration districts in Sweden, administrative Öja District, established ...
, he is the son of two international racewalkers: Mexican
Enrique Vera Ibáñez and Swede
Siv Gustavsson. His brother,
Perseus Karlström, is also an international racewalker for Sweden.
SWEDISH TEAM – MEDIA GUIDE. IAAF World Championships in Athletics – Daegu 2011
. Swedish Athletics Federation. Retrieved on 2014-02-22.
National titles
* Swedish Indoor Athletics Championships
**5000 m walk: 2019
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Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
See also
* Sweden at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics
References
External links
*
European Athletics biography
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Gotland County
Swedish male race walkers
World Athletics Championships athletes for Sweden
Swedish people of Mexican descent
21st-century Swedish sportsmen
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