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He was one of the highest ranked runners to enter the 800 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but he was off-form in the final and finished eighth in a time of 1:53.61 minutes.
He was one of the highest ranked runners to enter the 800 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics, but he was off-form in the final and finished eighth in a time of 1:53.61 minutes.
He was the gold medalist in the event at the 2011 Pan American Games. He represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. González emerged as an international level runner in 2006.
That year he ran 1:47.5 minutes for the 800 m and a national junior record of 3:42.6 minutes for the 1500 metres.
He was chosen to represent Cuba at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and he surprised by winning the 800 m gold medal, defeating Sherridan Kirk and running a time of 1:46.26 minutes (the fastest ever by a Central American and Caribbean junior). At the start of 2008 he ran a personal best of 1:45.3 minutes for the 800 m in Havana.
González received his first call-up to the Cuban Olympic team and was narrowly eliminated in the first round of the 800 m – he was the fastest runner not to qualify. In 2009, he came runner-up to Yeimer López at the national Barrientos Memorial meet in Havana.
He improved his 1500 m running in 2010, taking the title at the Barrientos Memorial and finishing the year with a new personal best of 3:40.94 minutes.
González returned to international competition in 2011 and had a highly successful year. He ran his season"s best of 1:45.67 minutes at the Barrientos Memorial, although he was narrowly pipped to the title by the emerging Raidel Acea. At the 2011 Pan American Games in October, he outran Brazil"s Kleberson Davide in the final straight to claim his first major 800 m title.
400 m: 47.41 s – Louisiana Habana, 1 March 2014
800 m: 1:45.3 minimum (ht) – Louisiana Habana, 13 March 2008
1500 m: 3:42.4 minimum (ht) – Louisiana Habana, 15 March 2008
3000 m: 8:24.3 minimum (ht) – Santa Clara, 3 April 2009.
The city hosted the 2009 CAC Championships in July and an attempt to defend his 800 m title resulted in duel between him and López, but González again finished behind his fellow Cuban.