Fulgencia Romay

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Fulgencia Romay medal table

Sprinter

CubaCuba Cuba
Olympic games
silver 1968 Mexico City 4 × 100 m
bronze 1972 Munich 4 × 100 m
Pan American Games
silver 1963 São Paulo 4 × 100 m
silver 1971 Cali 200 m
silver 1971 Cali 4 × 100 m
silver 1975 Mexico City 4 × 100 m

Fulgencia Romay Martínez (born January 16, 1944 in Havana ) is a former Cuban athlete and two-time Olympic medalist.

Career

Romay first played volleyball and did not get into athletics until the age of 18. Internationally, Romay first appeared at the Pan American Games in São Paulo in 1963 , where she won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay with Miguelina Cobián , Irene Martínez and Nereida Borges . She was also fifth in the 100 and 200 meter runs .

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she finished second in the relay together with Marlene Elejarde , Violeta Quesada and Miguelina Cobián, behind the US and ahead of the Soviet team. The four female sprinters thus became the first female Olympic medalists from Cuba. Romay also started over 100 and 200 meters in Mexico, but could not qualify for the final here. The following year she was second behind Cobián in the Central American and Caribbean Championships in her hometown Havana in the 100-meter run. She achieved the same result at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama City in 1970, where she also won the bronze medal behind Cobián and Quesada in the 200-meter run.

In 1971 Romay won the Central America and Caribbean Championships in Kingston both over 100 and over 200 meters. In the same year she won silver medals in the Pan American Games in Cali in the 200-meter run behind the Canadian Stephanie Berto and together with Carmen Valdés , Silvia Chivás and Marlene Elejarde in the relay. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Elejarde, Valdés, Romay and Chivás took third place behind the teams from the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR.

The same Cuban quartet won another silver medal at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City. For Romay it was the last great international success. For the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, she appeared again with the relay, but missed the qualification for the final.

After retiring from active sports in 1977, she worked as a trainer.

In November 2005 she was officially admitted to the Hall of Fame of the Athletics Federation of Central America and the Caribbean (CACAC) as an honor for her career.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. CACAC Hall of Fame and Athletes of the Year ceremonies, message on the IAAF website of November 5, 2005, accessed on March 9, 2015 (English)