Leonel Suarez

Leonel Suarez
2011 in Kladno
Full name	Leonel Suarez Fajardo
nation	Cuba
birthday	September 1, 1987
place of birth	Santiago de Cuba , Cuba
size	180 cm
Weight	78 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
Best performance	8654 points (July 4th, 2009 in Havana )
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 2 × World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × Pan American Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing 8527 points bronze 2012 London 8523 points World championships silver 2009 Berlin 8640 points bronze 2011 Daegu 8501 points  Pan American Games gold Guadalajara 2011 Decathlon
last change: August 16, 2012

Leonel Suárez Fajardo (born September 1, 1987 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban decathlete .

As a 19-year-old he was Cuban champion in 2007 with 8156 points. In his first international season, he won the 2008 meeting in Ratingen with the Cuban record of 8451 points. He improved this mark at the Olympic Games in Beijing to 8527 points; with this performance he surprisingly won the bronze medal behind Bryan Clay (USA) and Andrej Krautschanka (BLR). At the World Championships in Berlin a year later, Suárez managed to build on earlier successes and won the silver medal with 8,640 points when the American Trey Hardee won. 6 weeks earlier he had increased his personal best in Havana to 8654 points.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, he won the bronze medal behind Ashton Eaton and Trey Hardee with 8501 points . The same result at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . Suárez fought his way to the second Olympic bronze medal behind the US athletes. He finished the decathlon at the 2016 Olympic Games in 6th place with 8,460 points.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDsports.at: Gold! But not a world record , August 9, 2012

Web links

• Leonel Suárez in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Leonel Suárez Fajardo in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
• Leonel Suárez in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )