Dulce García

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Dulce García ( Dulce Margarita García Gil; born July 2, 1965 in Puerto Padre ; † September 9, 2019 ) was a Cuban javelin thrower and athletics trainer.

In 1986 and 1988 she won silver at the Ibero-American Championships, 1989 silver at the Central American and Caribbean Athletics Championships.

In 1991 she won the Pan American Games in Havana and was seventh at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo .

The following year she won the Ibero-American Championships. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona she was eighth and third at the World Cup in Athletics in Havana .

She set her personal best of 67.90 m on June 15, 1986 in Havana .

In 2000, her home province of Las Tunas awarded her the "Athlete of the Century" award.

Since 2003 García coached the Chilean shot putter Natalia Duco . In April 2018, García wanted to prevent a doping test from being carried out on Duco, whereupon the Chilean doping commission first warned her and then she was dismissed. The doping test that was finally carried out was positive and Duco was banned for three years. The President of the Chilean Athletics Federation made García responsible for the proven doping Ducos and pointed to an earlier doping ban García in the late 1990s.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallció Dulce Margarita García, exentrenadora de Natalia Duco . Article by Diego Rodríguez of September 9, 2019 on adnradio.cl (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Un lujo que pocos conocen. In: Mercurio de Valparaíso of May 24, 2004, accessed on September 11, 2019 (Spanish)
  3. ^ Fallció Dulce Margarita García, exentrenadora de Natalia Duco. In: ADN of September 9, 2019 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Chilena medallista de oro en Juegos da positivo en dopaje. In: Opinión of July 26, 2018 (Spanish)
  5. ↑ Juan Luis Carter, presidente de Fedachi: “Es difícil que la entrenadora de Duco no haya sabido”. In: La Tercera of July 25, 2018 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME García, Dulce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García Gil, Dulce Margarita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban spear thrower
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Puerto Padre
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2019