In the last hours the authorities confirmed the death of the Colombian cyclist Marlon Perez, in events that are investigated by the police Carmen de Viboral in Antioquia.
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What is known is that Pérez was taken to a hospital, where he arrived with a stab wound to the neck, but minutes later he died.
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Everything indicates that on Thursday night, Marlon Pérez took his dogs for a walk, when he was approached by thieves.
They asked him to remove the gold chain he was wearing and at that moment he received the wound that later caused his death, according to his sister Maryori, who is a police colonel in Bucaramanga.
The rider was world champion of the points test in the contest that was held in Quito, Ecuador, in 1994, and was born in Medellín on January 10, 1976, in the home of Alirio Pérez and Claudia Arango. His siblings are Maryori, Johana and Harder Armando.
Marlon Pérez rose in the municipality of Thames, Antioch, There he studied and helped his parents by selling junk in the plaza on weekends.
He was 13 years old and, with the help of his parents, he bought a geared bicycle, it cost him $85,000, and there he began his journey in the sport of cranks and pedals.
Pérez said that he trained between 4 and 6 in the afternoon around the town until Alfonso Aristizábal He enrolled him in school, in which he excelled with good results.
With Jefferson Rivera, Ricardo Vélez and Yesid RamírezMarlon went to represent the population in the race for CISA (Integrated Cycling Club of Southwest Antioquia). Transportation was included, but food and accommodation were not, so the boys had to do raffles to finance the rest.
Then it passed into the hands of Gabriel Jaime Vélez, who has been the discoverer of several pedalists, among them, Carlos Betancur, Rigoberto Urán, to name just a few.
Pérez was an excellent packer in his early years, which gave him the opportunity to go to cycling in Europe.
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