Ioamnet Quintero

Ioamnet Quintero Álvarez (born September 8, 1972 in Havana ) is a former Cuban high jumper .

The best known Cuban athlete in this discipline was Silvia Costa around 1990 . In 1991, however, Ioamnet Quintero, who was eight years younger than him, won the high jump at the Pan American Games. After Cuba did not take part in the Olympic Games in 1984 and 1988, the 1992 Olympic Games were the premiere for both of them. In the final, Costa was eliminated with 1.94 meters and was sixth. Ioamnet Quintero won bronze with 1.97 meters behind the German Heike Henkel and the Romanian Galina Astafei .

In 1993 Ioamnet Quintero was sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto with 1.97 meters after she had increased her best in the indoor season to 2.01 meters. At the beginning of August, she jumped over 2.00 meters outdoors in Monaco. At the World Championships in Stuttgart , she won gold with 1.99 meters in front of Silvia Costa and the Austrian Sigrid Kirchmann . 14 days after the World Championships at the sports festival in Brussels, Ioamnet Quintero's Achilles tendon tore.

After her comeback, she never jumped as high as in 1993. Nevertheless, she won the 1995 Pan-American Games. In 1996 she retired from qualifying at the Olympic Games . At the indoor world championships in 1997 Quintero reached 5th place again with 1.95 meters.

Quintero is 1.78 m tall and weighed 62 kg at competition times.

After the end of her active career, she worked for the Cuban Athletics Federation. She is married to the former hurdler Pedro Luis Piñero.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 1998. Surbiton 1998, ISBN 1899807-03-9
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

Web links

• Ioamnet Quintero in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
• Ioamnet Quintero in the database of World Athletics (English)