Agustín Pavó

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Agustín Pavó medal table

4 x 400 meter relay

CubaCuba Cuba
World championships
bronze ItalyItaly 1987 Rome 4 x 400 meter relay
Pan American Games
gold CubaCuba 1991 Havana 4 x 400 meter relay

Agustín Pavó Santos (born May 28, 1962 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a former Cuban sprinter who specialized in the 400-meter run .

Life

At the age of 14, Pavó moved from his native city of Santiago de Cuba to the Isla de la Juventud . His favorite sport was soccer, but it was chosen for athletics because of his physical characteristics. Although he did not receive his school lessons at the sports school (EIDE) on the island, in 1980 a trainer there enabled him to take part in training at the EIDE in the afternoons. After he achieved his first competitive successes, he came to the national sports boarding school (ESPA) in Havana for a few months in 1981, before he was accepted into the senior national team at the age of only 19.

Sporting successes

At the Central American and Caribbean Games in Havana in 1982, he won silver over 400 meters and gold with the 4 x 400 meter relay with Alberto Juantorena as the final runner.

Pavó celebrated his greatest sporting success at the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987 when he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay together with Leandro Peñalver , Lázaro Martínez and Roberto Hernández . In a national record time of 2: 59.16 min, the Cuban quartet only had to admit defeat to the US team led by Butch Reynolds (2: 57.29 min) and the UK team led by Roger Black (2: 58.86 min).

Pavó also won the gold medal with Héctor Herrera , Jorge Valentín and Martínez in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the Pan American Games in Havana in 1991 . At the World Championships in Tokyo that same year , the Cuban quartet finished eighth with the same line-up in the final in 3: 05.33 minutes.

He missed the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988 because of the boycott ordered by the Cuban government, and he was unable to take part in the 1992 Games because of an injury. Shortly afterwards he retired from active competitive sports. Since the end of his career he has worked as a teacher at the Isla de la Juventud sports school.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Agustín Pavo in the database of World Athletics (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Joel García: Y Pavó quedó en la historia, in: Trabajadores of March 24, 2013, accessed on May 11, 2014 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Agustín Pavó on the-sports.org
personal data
SURNAME Pavó, Agustín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pavó Santos, Agustín (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Cuba