Luis Delís

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Luis Mariano Delís Fournier (born December 6, 1957 in Guantánamo ) is a former Cuban discus thrower .

In 1980 he won bronze at the Olympic Games with 66.32 m behind the surprise winner Viktor Raschtschupkin (66.64 m) from the Soviet Union and Imrich Bugár (66.38 m) from Czechoslovakia. The 1980 Olympic participation was to remain the only one for Delís, because Cuba boycotted the 1984 and 1988 Games.

On May 21, 1983 Delís reached in La Habana with 71.06 m his personal best, which means 2006 Cuban national record. At the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 Delís won with 67.36 m silver behind Imrich Bugár (67.72 m) and in front of the second representative of Czechoslovakia Gejza Valent .

At the 1987 World Cup , Jürgen Schult from the GDR won with 68.74 m in front of the American John Powell with 66.22 m. Delís won bronze with 66.02 m, six centimeters ahead of Rolf Danneberg from the Federal Republic of Germany.

In addition to his three medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships, Luis Delís won gold at the Universiade in 1983 and 1985 and at the Pan American Games in 1983 and 1987. In 1990 he was suspended for two years for doping .

Luis Delís is 1.85 m tall and weighed 105 kg at competition times. After his career, Delís trained among other things the Olympic champion Maritza Martén .

literature

  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )

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personal data
SURNAME Delís, Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Delís Fournier, Luis Mariano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban discus thrower
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Guantánamo