National team Chile Sport Men's powerlifting | Weight 58,27 kg Height 1.4 m | |
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Born 4 March 1980 ( 1980-03-04 ) Santiago | ||
Juan Carlos Garrido Acevedo (4 March 1980 Santiago) is a Chilean Paralympic powerlifter. He participated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and achieved gold medals at Parapan American Games and Parasuramericanos.
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Life
He was born in 1980. He suffers from arthrogryposis, a rare clinical syndrome, affecting one in 3,000 births, so he uses a wheelchair. At 15, he began to play basketball, and rejected the option of undergoing a surgery.
He is divorced and has a daughter, Ivana Belén.
Garrido is also director of the Association of High Performance Athletes (DAR) Chile.
Early career (1998-2005)
He began practicing weightlifting in 1998, with 18 and 38 kilos of weight, encouraged by the Paralympic powerlifter Victor Valderrama. With only three months of training, he participated in the World Championship of the specialty organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. There he set a record of 115 kilos. Since then coached by Victor Rubilar.
He was one of four athletes who represented Chile at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, where he participated in the category with less than 48 kilos. In the Australian city he lifted 142.5 kilos, which he landed in 6th place and got the Panamerican record.
He prepared for the next Paralympic Games, Athens 2004, to participate in the category with less than 56 kilos. However, the coach of the Chilean delegation, which was not his coach-erroneously enrolled him in the category of 48 kilos, so he could not participate in the Olympics. The Paralympic Federation of Chile (FEPARACHILE) issued a report, and suspended for six years all competitors.
Return and world record (2011-2014)
During his years away from the sport, he lived in Antofagasta and was up to 80 kilos. In 2011, when he finished his punishment, he contacted his former coach, down to 60 kilos, and qualified for the Parapan American Games that year, held in Guadalajara, Mexico. In this competition won bronze medal and broke the Parapan record (165 kilos) in the category of -60 kilos. In 2012, in the Malaysia Open Powerlifting Championship held in Kuala Lumpur in February 2012, he took third place in the same category, lifting 166 kilos.
After a change in the categories of weightlifting, he was brought down to 59 kilos. In 2013 he took first place in the National Championship in Brazil, held in São Paulo, where he lifted 174 kilos, one below the world record current Russian Lidar Bedderdinov.4 In November of that same year, at the Circuit Brazil Caixa Lotteries, he held in Fortaleza, established the new world record, lifting 181 with kilos.
At the Parasuramericanos Games in 2014, held in Santiago, he won a gold medal in the category of -59 kilos, lifting 177 and setting a new parapanamerican record. He received the award for best athlete of Chile 2014, awarded by the Circle of Sports Journalists, next to the skater Maria Jose Moya.
Parapan and second Paralympics gold (2015-present)
He participated in 2015 Parapan American Games, held in Toronto, Canada, where he lifted 178 kilos, obtaining gold medal and breaking his own parapanamerican record. He returned to break his Parapan record in January 2016, at the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, which raised 186 kilos and won the gold medal.
In the World Cup held in Malaysia in February 2016, he took second place with 180 kilos, being surpassed only by the Chinese Quanxi Yang. Thus he qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. where he will be the standard bearer of the Chilean delegation.