Yaime Pérez
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Full name | Yaimí Pérez Tellez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Santiago de Cuba | 29 May 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 69.39 m (2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 4 October 2019. |
Yaime Pérez Tellez (sometimes "Yaimí", born 29 May 1991) is a Cuban athlete specialising in the discus throw.[2]
Career[]
She was the gold medallist at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, then won her first senior title at the regional 2011 ALBA Games. Pérez represented Cuba at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, placing eleventh in the final. Her 2014 season was highlighted by a silver medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games and a fifth-place finish at the 2014 IAAF Continental Cup. Pérez won her first IAAF Diamond League meeting in 2015, beating world and Olympic champion Sandra Perković through a personal best throw of 67.13 m (220 ft 2+3⁄4 in).[3]
Pérez won the gold medal at the 2019 World Championships and the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Personal bests[]
- Shot put: 13.88 m (45 ft 6+1⁄4 in) (2008)
- Discus throw: 69.39 m (227 ft 7+3⁄4 in) (2019)
International competitions[]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Cuba | |||||
2009 | ALBA Games | La Habana, Cuba | 9th | Discus | 52.00 m |
2010 | World Junior Championships | Moncton, Canada | 1st | Discus | 56.01 m |
2011 | ALBA Games | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | 1st | Discus | 55.26 m |
2012 | Ibero-American Championships | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | 4th | Discus | 56.93 m |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 30th (q) | Discus | 57.87 m | |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 11th | Discus | 60.33 m |
2014 | Pan American Sports Festival | Ciudad de México, México | — | Discus | NM |
Continental Cup | Marrakech, Morocco | 5th | Discus | 59.38 m1 | |
Central American and Caribbean Games | Xalapa, México | 2nd | Discus | 62.42 m A | |
2015 | Pan American Games | Toronto, Canada | 2nd | Discus | 64.99 m |
World Championships | Beijing, China | 4th | Discus | 65.46 m | |
2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st (q) | Discus | 65.38 m2 |
2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 4th | Discus | 64.82 m |
2018 | Central American and Caribbean Games | Barranquilla, Colombia | 1st | Discus | 66.00 m |
NACAC Championships | Toronto, Canada | 1st | Discus | 61.97 m | |
2019 | Pan American Games | Lima, Peru | 1st | Discus | 66.58 m |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st | Discus | 69.17 m | |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 3rd | Discus | 65.72 m |
1Representing the Americas
2No mark in the final
References[]
- ^ "2018 CAC Games bio". Retrieved 8 August 2018.
- ^ "Yaimé PÉREZ | Profile | World Athletics".
- ^ Rowbottom, Mike (9 July 2015). Taylor topples Pichardo in Lausanne – IAAF Diamond League. IAAF. Retrieved on 10 July 2015.
External links[]
- Yaime Pérez at World Athletics
- Yaime Pérez at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Yaime Pérez at the International Olympic Committee
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Santiago de Cuba
- Cuban female discus throwers
- Olympic athletes of Cuba
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Cuba
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Diamond League winners
- IAAF Continental Cup winners
- Pan American Games gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Cuban athletics biography stubs