José Ramón Ferrer Cruz (born September 23, 1968) is a Mexican

sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

. He competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. Ferrer competed in two

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, earning his best finish of sixth in the C-2 1000 m event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Career

Ferrer won a bronze medal in the C-4 1000 m event at the

1994 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1994 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Mexico City, Mexico for the second time at neighboring Xochimilco. The Mexican city had hosted the event previously in 1974 at the same venue that hosted the canoeing and rowing competitio ...

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. Ferrer reached the highest finish of any Mexican canoeist in the

2000 Sydney Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

along with Antonio Romero finishing in 6th place and establishing himself as an icon of Mexican canoeing.

References

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1968 births Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Living people Mexican male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Mexico ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Pan American Games bronze medalists in canoeing Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico Canoeists at the 1991 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games 20th-century Mexican sportsmen {{Mexico-canoe-bio-stub