Yumileidi Cumbá
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Full name | Yumileidi Cumbá Jay | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Guantánamo | February 11, 1975||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 19.97 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 14 June 2013. |
Yumileidi Cumbá Jay (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝumiˈlejði kumˈba], also Yumisleidis, born February 11, 1975 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban shot putter.
Career[]
Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw.
Her current personal best throw is 19.97 metres, achieved at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Huelva.
Her name is a transliteration of "You Milady", and is in the Cuban tradition of using odd, foreign-born names.
Personal best[]
Outdoor
- Shot put: 19.97 m – Huelva, 8 August 2004
Indoor
- Shot put: 19.31 m – Budapest, 5 March 2004
International competitions[]
External links[]
- Yumileidi Cumbá at World Athletics
- Yumileidi Cumbá at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography[permanent dead link]
- Ecured biography (in Spanish)
- Picture of Yumileidi Cumbá as she celebrates winning silver in Olympia[2]
References[]
- ^ a b c Representing the Americas
- ^ Biscayart, Eduardo (13 May 2005), Olympic Champion Cumbá - World leader Gregorio to highlight Rio de Janeiro Grand Prix II - Preview, IAAF, retrieved 27 March 2012
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Cuban female shot putters
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Olympic athletes of Cuba
- Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
- Sportspeople from Guantánamo
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Universiade gold medalists for Cuba
- Universiade silver medalists for Cuba
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games