Guillermo Martínez (athlete)

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Guillermo Martínez at the 2009 World Cup

Guillermo Martínez ( Guillermo Martínez Pérez ; born June 28, 1981 in Camagüey ) is a Cuban javelin thrower .

In 2004 he threw over the eighty-meter mark for the first time and also won his first title at the Cuban championship that year. Until 2007 he won four times in a row. At the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 as tenth and in 2007 in Osaka as ninth, he was eliminated in the preliminary fight. But he won the title at the Central American and Caribbean Games in 2006 with 84.91 meters and over six meters ahead. At the Pan American Games in 2007 he threw the spear as the winner at 77.66 meters and had a two-meter lead.

At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, he managed a throw of 86.41 meters, with which he took second place behind the Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen . This was the greatest success up to then for a javelin thrower from Cuba, but his compatriot María Caridad Colón was 1980 Olympic champion.

At the 2011 World Cup in Daegu, he threw 84.30 meters and won the bronze medal.

Martínez had his best distance of 87.17 meters in 2006 in Saint-Denis .

Guillermo Martínez is 1.90 meters tall and weighs 101 kg.

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