Juan Morales (Cuban athlete)

Juan Morales Hechavarria ( born July 12, 1948 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a former Cuban hurdler and sprinter.

At the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1967 and 1971 in Cali, he won the bronze medal in the 110- meter hurdles. At the Olympic Games in 1968 in Mexico City, he reached the semi-finals in this discipline.

At the same Olympics he had his greatest success in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. The Cuban quartet in the cast Hermes Ramírez Morales, Pablo Montes, and Enrique Figuerola won silver with 0.1 seconds down on the U.S. relay race that 's set a world record with 38.2. Also the silver medal he won in the 4 x 100 - meter relay at the Pan American Games in 1967 and 1971. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he retired with the Cuban relay in the run- off.

From 1967 to 1973 he was four consecutive Central American and Caribbean champion in the 110 meter hurdles. The Central American and Caribbean Games, he won in the same discipline in 1966 and bronze in 1970 gold.