Researching Rolando Vera
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 8 people with the Vera surname? In that year Vera was ranked number 3571 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Rolando means "Form of ROLAND. Famed Throughout the Land" and is of Italian origin.
Records of Rolando Vera on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rolando Vera and the Vera Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 21268 people with the Vera surname in the USA? Vera is ranked number 150 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Rolando Vera
Rolando Vera (wrestler)
Rolando Hernández Verástegui (February 1, 1915 – March 29, 2001) was a Mexican professional wrestler and wrestling trainer, better known as Rolando Vera. One of the most popular luchadores in Mexico in the 1950s, he was also an early star of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. Vera wrestled throughout the world during his long career and held the NWA World Middleweight Champion for over four years. He also trained numerous wrestlers during his life including father-and-son Blue Demon and Blue Demon Jr., Sangre Chicana, Angel Mortal, René Guajardo and Sugi Sito.
Source: Rolando Vera (wrestler), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Rolando Vera (runner)
Rolando Patricio Vera Rodas (born April 27, 1965 in Cuenca, Azuay) is a retired long-distance runner from Ecuador, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. He reached the top ten of the 10,000 metres at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics. He enjoyed much championship success at the regional level: he was a two-time South American Champion on the track and won gold medals at the South American Games and Bolivarian Games, as well as reaching the podium at the Ibero-American Championships and the 1987 Pan American Games.
He won road running competitions on four continents and was tenth at the 1994 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. Vera won the Saint Silvester Road Race four times consecutively in the 1980s. In 1995 he won both the Los Angeles Marathon and the Chuncheon Marathon, and he won the Beppu-Ōita Marathon two years later. At Olympic level he competed in the marathon on two occasions (1992 and 1996). He remains the Ecuadorian record holder over 20 km and the half marathon. His personal best in the marathon is 2:10:46 – a time which brought him third at the 1990 Boston Marathon.
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