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Cuban track phenom slash Olympic medalist Leonel Suarez—who always looks great in a track singlet—adds yet another medal to his growing collection. Suarez won bronze in the decathlon at the 2011 World Championships in Daegu South Korea.
Suarez took silver in the decathlon at the Worlds in Berlin 2009. Suarez also won bronze at Beijing 2008 Olympics.
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Set your TiVos. The XIII World Athletics Championships will be held next week in Daegu, South Korea from August 27th to September 4th. Cuba has announced its sporno-tastic and testosterone heavy roster will be lead by R20 faves and Olympic medalists Leonel Suarez and Dayron Robles, according to Radio Havana and Guantanamo TV.
Along Suarez, his teammate Yordanis Garcia, javelin and runner-up in the previous event Guillermo Martínez, Victor Moya in high jump, Carlos Veliz, Misleydis Gonzalez and Mailin Vargas in shot put, Yipsi Moreno in hammer, and Yanet Cruz in javelin will also depart this week to the Korean appointment. Yoandri Betanzos ....among others, complete the official roster.
Guillermo Martínez is seen above at the 2009 Worlds in Berlin—where he famously performed a few backflips after winning silver in the javelin.
Dayron Robles won gold in the 110m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics. Robles' Olympic-sized bulge became quite the conversation topic across the internets. More recently: Robles beat hurdles super hotness David Oliver on August 5 in London. Robles, Oliver and China's Liu Xiang are expected to fight it out for the gold in Daegu.
Rod 2.0 crush object Leonel Suarez of Cuba takes the silver with 8,640 points for the ten events of the decathlon at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin. The Olympic bronze medalist recorded a great time (4:27.25) in the 1,500-meter race, the final event of the grueling two-day competition. But still not enough to win the gold, which went to the American hotness Trey Hardee who collected 8,790 points.
The 21-year-old Leonel Suarez is Cuba's "top" decathlete and was seen on Rod 2.0 earlier this year looking extremely fit in all the right places. More of Leonel Suarez's bulging muscles WHEN YOU JUMP...
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Viva Cuba! Cuba's top decathletes post record scores in the decathlon at the Aurelio Janet Memorial over the weekend in Havana. The dynamic duo are Beijing Olympic bronze medalist Leonel Suarez and 2007 Pan American Games runner-up Yordanis Garcia. Twenty-one--year-old Leonel Suarez was captured by Outsports photographers last spring and definitely looks fit in all the right places.
IAAF reports, "Both posted the highest totals ever for a Decathlon in Cuba as Suarez scored 8415 points and Garcia a personal best of 8365 points. Suarez set the national Heptathlon indoor record with 5959 points in early February this year, and Garcia came close with 5905 two weeks later in Seville."
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