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Mario Alfonso Bran

Guatemalan race walker

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ26422234 ↗
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Mario Alfonso Bran (born 17 October 1989) is a Guatemalan race walker. He competed in the 50 km event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished 42nd. Bran placed second over 20 km at the Central American Race Walking Championships in 2012–14.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2016, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-10-17. The account is most persuasive where Mario, Alfonso and Bran can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mario Alfonso Bran” 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.