Iván Pedroso

Iván Pedroso
Iván Pedroso in 2010
Full name	Iván Lázaro Pedroso Soler
nation	Cuba
birthday	17th December 1972
place of birth	Havana
size	176 cm
Weight	66 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.71 m
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 4 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Games 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 2000 Sydney Long jump World championships gold 1995 Gothenburg Long jump gold 1997 Athens Long jump gold 1999 Seville Long jump gold 2001 Edmonton Long jump  Pan American Games bronze 1991 Havana Long jump gold 1995 Mar del Plata Long jump gold 1999 Winnipeg Long jump gold 2003 Santo Domingo Long jump

Iván Lázaro Pedroso Soler (born December 17, 1972 in Havana ) is a former long jumper from Cuba . He is an Olympic champion and four-time world champion.

Sports career

Pedroso jumped the eight-meter mark as a 17-year-old. At the beginning of his career he found strong competition in Carl Lewis and Mike Powell . After their retirement from active competitive sport, Pedroso rose to become the dominant athlete in the long jump. From 1993 to 2001 he won the title at the World Indoor Athletics Championships five times in a row . He won the World Athletics Championships four times in a row: 1995 in Gothenburg , 1997 in Athens , 1999 in Seville and 2001 in Edmonton .

He crowned his athletic career at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, when he won the gold medal with a width of 8.55 m. Four years earlier, he had only finished twelfth at the Atlanta Games .

The 2001 world title was his last major international triumph. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, his last major competition, Pedroso finished seventh.

On July 29, 1995, Pedroso jumped 8.96 m wide in Sestriere , one centimeter above the existing world record set by Mike Powell in 1991. The measured tail wind was permissible at 1.2 m / s, but video recordings showed an Italian trainer who was in front the wind measuring device and thus shielded it. The jump was therefore not recognized as a world record. On July 18, 1995 he completed his officially longest jump in Salamanca with 8.71 m.

Ivan Pedroso is 1.76 m tall and has a competition weight of 66 kg. At the end of 2007 he announced his retirement from competitive sports.

Since 2010 he has been the trainer of the French triple jumper Teddy Tamgho .

Web links

Commons : Iván Pedroso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Iván Pedroso in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Pedroso officially retires ( Memento of December 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), article by Javier Clavelo Robinson on the IAAF website, December 15, 2007
• Iván Pedroso in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Iván Pedroso in the online encyclopedia EnCaribe (Spanish)
• Iván Pedroso in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

literature

• Luis Gustavo González and Milán Matos: Iván Pedroso: la talla del talento. Editorial Deportes, Havana 2004 (Spanish), ISBN 9597133024