Luis Subercaseaux
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Luis Subercaseaux was a Chilean diplomat and athlete. He is claimed to be the first Chilean and South American sportsman to have competed in the Olympic Games, at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.
According to the Comité Olímpico de Chile Luis Subercasueax competed at the age of 15 in the 100, 400 and 800 metres although many Olympic historians dispute this claim and maintain that, although he was entered in these events, he did not take part in any race.
During this period in his life, he studied at the Colegio Benedictino located in the Basque Provinces of France. Where he kept his record on the high jump. He was also one of the founder members of the Chilean football team Club De Deportes Santiago Morning and a successful football player.
Through 1928 he was ambassador of Chile in Peru, Spain and the Vatican, in addition to being an attendant of Chilean business in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Holand, Norway, Poland and Yugoslavia from the consular office in London.
Nowadays to remember his contribution there is a monument in the entrancy of the Chilean Olimpic Museum.
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- Comité Olímpico de Chile. La Presencia de Chile en los Juegos Olimpicos (Spanish). Retrieved on 28 December 2006.
- Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture (1998). The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0379-9. Excerpt available at[1]
