Ana Fidelia Quirot

Ana Fidelia Quirot
Full name	Ana Fidelia Quirot Moré
nation	Cuba
birthday	March 23, 1963
place of birth	Palma Soriano
size	165 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	Middle distance run
Best performance	1: 54.44 min ( 800 m )
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 4 × 1 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Barcelona 1992 800 m silver Atlanta 1996 800 m  World championships silver Tokyo 1991 800 m gold Gothenburg 1995 800 m gold Athens 1997 800 m  Pan American Games gold Indianapolis 1987 400 m gold Indianapolis 1987 800 m gold Havana 1991 400 m gold Havana 1991 800 m silver Havana 1991 4 × 400 m  Universiade gold Duisburg 1989 800 m

Ana Fidelia Quirot Moré (born March 23, 1963 in Palma Soriano , Santiago de Cuba Province ) is a former Cuban middle-distance runner . She was twice world champion in the 800 meter run .

She won gold over 400 and 800 meters at the Pan American Games in 1987 . In the same year she was fourth at the world championships over 800 meters in Rome . In 1989 she won the World Cup in Barcelona . She set her personal best with 1: 54.44 minutes, the third fastest time ever. At the end of the season she was named World Athlete of the Year .

In Tokyo , she won silver at the 1991 World Championships . At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona she won the bronze medal in the 800-meter run behind the Dutchwoman Ellen van Langen and the Russian Lilija Nurutdinova, who started for the united team of the CIS .

In 1993 she was the victim of a tragic accident. Quirot, six months pregnant, suffered severe burns when a kerosene stove exploded in the kitchen of her Havana apartment , and lost her unborn child. Her career seemed over, but after numerous operations she started training again and won the 800 meters at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg .

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , she won the silver medal behind Swetlana Masterkowa (RUS) and in front of Maria de Lurdes Mutola (MOZ) , actually traded as the favorite for gold . At the 1997 World Championships in Athens , she won gold again over 800 meters.

On March 2, 2001, together with six-time boxing and three-time Olympic champion Félix Savón and three-time Olympic and two-time volleyball world champion Mireya Luis , President Fidel Castro bid farewell to active sport in Ciudad Deportiva, the capital's central competitive sports complex.

Awards

• 1997: World Sportswoman of the Year ( La Gazzetta dello Sport )

Web links

• Ana Fidelia Quirot in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ana Fidelia Quirot in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athletics: Cuba's Lady Di In: Der Spiegel, July 17, 1995, accessed April 28, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF
2. ↑ Usain Bolt World Athlete for the fourth time , www.leichtathletik.de November 24, 2012