Leonel Suarez
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Full name | Leonel Suarez Fajardo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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birthday | September 1, 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Santiago de Cuba , Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 78 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Decathlon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 8654 points (July 4th, 2009 in Havana ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ↑ 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 )
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SURNAME | Suarez, Leonel |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Suarez Fajardo, Leonel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban decathlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1987 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Cuba |