Q:Facts: - sport: wrestling - event: freestyle - weight: 96 kg lb 0 on - headercolor: lightblue - height: 1.82 0 on - birth date: 20 april 1984 - fullname: michel batista martinez - name: michel batista - coach: julio mendieta - club: cerro pelado - birth place: camaguey , cuba Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michel batista .
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michel batista martinez -lrb- born april 20 , 1984 in camaguey -rrb- is an amateur cuban freestyle wrestler , who played for the men 's heavyweight category .he won a gold medal for his division at the 2007 pan american games in rio de janeiro , brazil , defeating venezuela 's luis vivenes .batista represented cuba at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , where he competed for the men 's 96 kg class .he received an automatic free pass from the preliminary round of sixteen , after u.s. wrestler daniel cormier had been withdrawn from the competition due to complications related to excessive weight cutting .he lost the quarterfinal match to kazakhstan 's taimuraz tigiyev , who was able to score three points in two straight periods , leaving batista without a single point .because his opponent advanced further into the final match , batista offered another shot for the bronze medal by defeating his former opponent vivenes in the repechage round .he progressed to the bronze medal match , but narrowly lost by a fall to georgia 's giorgi gogshelidze .