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Juan Miguel López

Cuban triple jumper

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ112618 ↗
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Juan Miguel López Varga (born 7 April 1967) is a Cuban former track and field athlete who specialised in the triple jump.

He won bronze at the 1989 IAAF World Indoor Championships, silver at the 1989 Central American and Caribbean Championships and silver at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games.

He won a silver medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but was subsequently disqualified for doping.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1989, 1990, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-04-07. For this dossier, Juan, Miguel and López is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Juan Miguel López” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.