Pablo Montes (athlete)

Pablo Montes
Full name	Pablo Montes Casanova
nation	Cuba
birthday	November 23, 1945
place of birth	Havana, Cuba
size	184 cm
Weight	83 kg
date of death	October 26, 2008
Place of death	Havana, Cuba
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	10.14s October 13, 1968 in Mexico City
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × Pan American Games 0 × 3 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 1968 Mexico City 4 × 100 m Pan American Games bronze 1967 Winnipeg 200 m silver 1967 Winnipeg 4 × 100 m silver 1971 Cali 4 × 100 m silver 1975 Mexico City 4 × 100 m
last change: August 15, 2012

Pablo Montes Casanova (born November 23, 1945 in Havana ; † October 26, 2008 there ) was a Cuban sprinter .

At the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg in 1967 , he made his breakthrough to the top of the world. In 21.0 s he won the bronze medal in the 200-meter run behind the Americans John Carlos and Jerry Bright , over 400 meters he finished sixth. With the Cuban relay he won the silver medal behind the US relay.

The following year he was fourth in the 100-meter run in 10.14 s behind Jim Hines , Lennox Miller and Charles Greene at the Olympic Games in Mexico City . In the 4 x 100 meter relay , the Jamaicans around Lennox Miller had improved the world record to 38.39 s in the semifinals. In the final, the Americans around Greene and Hines won in the world record time of 38.24 seconds, and the Cubans with Hermes Ramírez , Juan Morales , Montes and Enrique Figuerola finished second in 38.40 seconds ahead of the French and Jamaicans .

Montes celebrated his greatest success at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama in 1970 , when he won over 100 meters, 200 meters and gold in the relay. In 1971 he received bronze on both sprint routes at the Central America and Caribbean Championships. At the Pan American Games in 1971 , he finished fourth over 100 meters and won silver in the relay. During his second Olympic participation in Munich in 1972 , Montes only took part in the relay, which was eliminated in the semifinals. In 1975 he won another season silver at the Pan American Games, for the third time in a row.

Pablo Montes is 1.84 meters tall and weighed 83 kg during his playing days. After his career he became a sports official and was most recently responsible for senior sports in the Cuban Athletics Association.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 (obituary page 105).

Web links

• Pablo Montes in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Pablo Montes in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)