Jorge Fernández (athlete)

Jorge Fernández
Full name	Jorge Yadián Fernández Hernández
nation	Cuba
birthday	2nd October 1987 (age 32)
place of birth	Cárdenas , Cuba
size	190 cm
Weight	100 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	66.50 m
Medal table
Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Central America and Caribbean Games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Pan American Games gold Guadalajara 2011 65.58 m Central America and Caribbean Games gold Xalapa 2014 63.17 m silver Barranquilla 2018 66.30 m
last change: July 26, 2020

Jorge Yadián Fernández Hernández (born October 2, 1987 in Cárdenas ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in discus throwing, but occasionally also competes in the shot put.

Athletic career

Jorge Fernández gained his first international experience in 2005 when he won the silver medal at the Pan American Junior Championships in Windsor with a width of 57.87 m with the 1.75 kg discus. The following year he took part in the Junior World Championships in Beijing , where he finished fifth with 59.55 m. In 2008 he took part in the Olympic Games there for the first time , but retired there with 59.60 m in qualification . Before that, he won the Central America and Caribbean Championships (CAC) in Cali with a throw of 58.60 m. The following year he won again at the CAC Championships in Havana with 61.79 m and in 2010 he won the bronze medal at the Ibero-American Championships in San Fernando with 61.76 m behind the Spaniards Mario Pestano and Frank Casañas . He then reached sixth place at the Continental Cup in Split with 61.18 m.

In 2011 he first took part in the World Championships in Daegu , South Korea , where he finished eighth with 65.58 m and then won the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with a width of 65.58 m. The following year he again took part in the Olympic Games in London and this time reached the final , in which he finished eleventh with 62.02 m. In 2013 he reached tenth place at the World Championships in Moscow with 62.88 m and in 2014 he won the Pan-American Sports Festival in Mexico City with 64.94 m and then came second at the Continental Cup in Marrakech with 62.97 m behind Gerd Kanter from Estonia . In addition, he won the Central America and Caribbean Games in Xalapa with a throw at 63.17 m in the discus throw and finished fifth in the shot put with 16.11 m. In 2015 he again took part in the Pan American Games in Toronto and reached fifth place there with 62.04 m.

In 2016 he qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , but did not reach the final with 60.43 m . Two years later he won the silver medal behind the Colombian Mauricio Ortega at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla with 65.27 m . In 2019 he finished fourth at the Pan American Games in Lima with 64.24 m and then retired from the qualification at the World Championships in Doha with 60.60 m .

In the years from 2012 to 2015 and 2019, Fernández was the Cuban champion in discus throwing and in 2014 also in the shot put.

Personal best

• Shot put: 16.94 m, March 20, 2014 in Havana
• Discus throw: 66.50 m, July 3, 2014 in Lausanne

Web links

• Jorge Fernández in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Jorge Fernández in the database of Olympedia.org (English)