Franklin Cisneros

Franklin Cisneros
Personal information
Full name Franklin Amadeo Cisneros Duarte
Nationality  El Salvador
Born (1983-12-21) 21 December 1983
San Salvador, El Salvador
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 81 kg (179 lb)
Sport
Sport Judo
Event(s) 81 kg

Franklin Amadeo Cisneros Duarte (born December 21, 1983 in San Salvador) is a Salvadoran judoka, who played for the half-middleweight category.[1] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2]

Cisneros represented El Salvador at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's half-middleweight class (81 kg). He received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out by an ippon and a juji gatame (back-lying perpendicular armbar) to U.S. judoka and Pan American Games champion Travis Stevens.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Franklin Cisneros". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Reser and Stevens Win Gold, Gotay Takes Silver at the Pan American Games". Team USA. 21 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Men's Half Middleweight (81kg/178 lbs) Preliminaries". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "How U.S. athletes fared Tuesday". Herald Mail. 12 August 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2013.


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