Two-time Pan American Championships medalist Two-time Senior World Team member 2021 Senior World Team Trials champion Two-Time Senior Nationals champion Alan Ernesto Vera García (October 26, 1990 – September 23, 2024) was a Cuban-American Greco-Roman wrestler.
In 2016, he won a gold medal at the Pan American Wrestling Championships while competing for Cuba.
In 2023, Vera won a bronze medal at the Pan American Championships for the United States, and in 2024, he won a silver medal at the event for Team USA.
[6] In 2016, Vera married to Elena Pirozhkova, a former world champion American sport wrestler and two-time Olympian.
[8] On 29 July 2024, Vera suffered cardiac arrest while playing soccer with friends.