Lázaro Martínez (triple jumper)

Lázaro Martínez
Lázaro Martínez at the 2016 Olympic Games
Full name	Lázaro Martínez Santrayll
nation	Cuba
birthday	3rd November 1997 (age 22)
place of birth	Guantánamo ,  Cuba
size	192 cm
Weight	83 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.28 m
status	active
Medal table
CAC games 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 world championships 2 × 0 × 0 × U18 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Central America and Caribbean Games silver Xalapa 2014 Triple jump  Junior World Championships gold Eugene 2014 Triple jump gold Bydgoszcz 2016 Triple jump  Youth World Championships gold Donetsk 2013 Triple jump
last change: January 12, 2020

Lázaro Martínez Santrayll (born November 3, 1997 in Guantánamo ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in the triple jump . He is multiple youth and junior world champion.

Athletic career

Lázaro Martínez is the son of the former 400-meter runner Isabel Contreras . He practiced basketball and judo until he was 10 years old before taking up athletics. At the age of 15 he was already one of the world's best athletes in his age group. He qualified for the U18 World Championships in Donetsk. In the final he jumped 16.63 m with his fourth attempt, with which he set the youth world record of his compatriot Héctor Dairo Fuentes . With this distance he also won the world title. In August he finally won gold at the U18 Pan American Championships in Medellín.

In spring 2014, he jumped the 17-meter mark for the first time and then confirmed it, so that he traveled as one of the top favorites to the U20 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon. His 17.24 m from February meant a new youth world record, which was broken in June 2018 by Martínez's compatriot Jordan A. Díaz with 17.40 m. In Eugene, Martínez won the gold medal with a width of 17.13 m. In November he then appeared at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Xalapa for the first time in an international championship among adults. There he won the silver medal in the final with 16.91 m. In 2015 he also won the silver medal at the U20 Pan American Championships in Edmonton, Canada.

In 2016 he defended his world title in 17.06 m at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz. He then qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. with 16.61 m he qualified for the final, in which he did not get beyond the 17 meters and at the end took eighth place in 16.68 m. Also in the next season he rarely jumped over the 17-meter mark, although he qualified for the World Championships in London. There he failed in the qualification and ended up in 12th place.

After the 2018 season did not go perfectly either, he was unable to contest any competition in 2019.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Expanse
Starts for Cuba
2013	U18 world championships	Donetsk	1.	Triple jump	16.63 m
	U18 Pan American Championships	Medellin	1.	Triple jump	16.49 m
2014	U20 world championships	Eugene	1.	Triple jump	17.13 m
	Central America and Caribbean Games	Xalapa	2.	Triple jump	16.91 m
2015	U20 Pan American Championships	Edmonton	2.	Triple jump	16.52 m
2016	U20 world championships	Bydgoszcz	1.	Triple jump	17.06 m
	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	8th.	Triple jump	16.68 m
2017	World championships	London	12.	Triple jump	16.25 m

Personal best

open air

• Triple jump : 17.28 m, February 4, 2018, Camagüey
• Long jump : 7.19 m, February 14, 2014, Havana

Web links

• Lázaro Martínez in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Lázaro Martínez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Javier Clavelo Robinson: Martinez equals championship record in Triple Jump . IAAF . July 13, 2013. Accessed January 12, 2020.