Luis Zayas

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Luis Zayas athletics
Full name Luis Enrique Zayas Fernández
nation CubaCuba Cuba
birthday 7th June 1997 (age 23)
place of birth Santiago de CubaCuba
Career
discipline high jump
Best performance 2.30 m
status active
Medal table
Pan American Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U20 world championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U20 Pan American Championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pan American Games logo Pan American Games
gold Lima 2019 high jump
IAAF logo Junior World Championships
gold Bydgoszcz 2016 high jump
Athletics U20 Pan American Championships
silver Edmonton 2015 high jump
last change: April 2, 2020

Luis Enrique Zayas Fernández (born June 7, 1997 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban athlete who specializes in the high jump . In 2019 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games

Athletic career

Luis Zayas first started in high jump competitions in 2013. At that time he moved into the final of the U20 Pan American Championships, in which he was ninth with a skipped 2.05 m. By 2014 he had increased to a personal best of 2.18 m. In 2015 he won the silver medal at the U20 Pan American Championships in Edmonton, Canada. In 2016 Zayas started at the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz. In the course of the season he had already jumped 2.25 m. At the championships he moved into the final, in which he won the gold medal with a new personal best of 2.27 m. All of his eight jumps up to this height were successful on the first attempt. Alongside the Cuban world record holder Javier Sotomayor , he is the second athlete from the island state to win this competition.

In 2017 he was unable to build on these achievements. In 2018 he started at the Central America and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, where he finished sixth with 2.19 m. In 2019 Zayas won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Lima with a new personal best of 2.30 m . He jumped the same height in the final of the World Championships two months later in Doha, with which he finished fifth. In 2020 he also competed in the halls for the first time and took part in various meetings in competitions in Europe. In his second indoor competition in Slovakia, he set his highest jumped height to date of 2.33 m, thus equalizing the year's best.

Major competitions

year event place space discipline Expanse
Starts for CubaCubaCuba 
2013 U20 Pan American Championships ColombiaColombia Medellin 9. high jump 2.09 m
2015 U20 Pan American Championships CanadaCanada Edmonton 2. high jump 2.16 m
2016 U20 world championships PolandPoland Bydgoszcz 1. high jump 2.27 m
2018 Central America and Caribbean Games ColombiaColombia Barranquilla 6th high jump 2.19 m
2019 Pan American Games PeruPeru Lima 1. high jump 2.30 m
World championships QatarQatar Doha 5. high jump 2.30 m

Personal best

open air
Hall

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Report: men's high jump - IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016
  2. Cuba's Luis Zayas soars to WL to win High Jump @ World U20 Championships
  3. ^ Zayas and Wilson equal high jump world lead in Banska Bystrica