Álvaro Velasco (weightlifter)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Velasco and the second or maternal family name is Alzate.
Álvaro Velasco
Personal information
Born March 3, 1971
Medal record
Men's Weightlifting
Representing  Colombia
Pan American Games
1999 Winnipeg – 85 kg
1991 Havana – 75 kg
1995 Mar del Plata – 76 kg

Álvaro Augusto Velasco Alzate (born March 3, 1971) is a retired male weightlifter from Colombia, who thrice won a medal for his native South American country at the Pan American Games: in 1991, 1995 and 1999. He twice competed at the Summer Olympics (1992 and 1996), finishing in 12th place in the men's middleweight division in Atlanta, Georgia (1996).

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