Osleidys Menéndez

Osleidys Menéndez
Full name	Osleidys Menéndez Sáez
nation	Cuba
birthday	November 14, 1979
place of birth	Martí
size	175 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	71.70 m
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 2 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Games 2 × 0 × 1 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Sydney 2000 Javelin throw gold Athens 2004 Javelin throw  World championships gold Edmonton 2001 Javelin throw gold Helsinki 2005 Javelin throw  Junior World Championships gold Sydney 1996 Javelin throw gold Annecy 1998 Javelin throw  Pan American Games gold Winnipeg 1999 Javelin throw bronze Santon Domingo 2003 Javelin throw gold Rio de Janeiro 2007 Javelin throw  Universiade gold Beijing 2001 Javelin throw

Osleidys Menéndez Sáez (born November 14, 1979 in Martí , Matanzas ) is a Cuban javelin thrower . She is an Olympic champion and two-time world champion.

At the age of 14, Menéndez already threw the spear to a distance of almost 54 meters and was Junior World Champion twice in a row in 1996 and 1998. Her first start at major international championships she had at the World Athletics Championships in Athens in 1997 , where she finished seventh. At the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, she was fourth, and at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney she won the bronze medal.

In Edmonton at the 2001 World Championships , she was first world champion; in the same year she set a world record with 71.54 m.

After weak World Championships in 2003 in Paris / Saint-Denis, where she was only fifth, she won the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with 71.53 m, only 1 centimeter below her world record. This was also an Olympic record.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , she won the title again. With 71.70 m she set a world record.

Osleidys Menéndez is 1.75 m tall and has a competition weight of 80 kg.

Web links

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