Yago Lamela
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Santiago "Yago" Lamela Tobio (born July 24, 1977 in Avilés ; † before or on May 8, 2014 ibid) was a Spanish long jumper .
Career
Yago Lamela's big year was 1999. At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi , he gave Cuban Iván Pedroso a great and extremely exciting fight. Lamela increased the Spanish indoor record over 8.27 m and 8.42 m in the last attempt to the European record width of 8.56 m at the time. Pedroso countered with 8.62 m in the last jump of the competition and won his fourth title in a row. Lamela was rewarded with silver.
After this exciting competition, not only the Spanish public expected a lot from the long jump competition at the World Championships in Seville , especially since Lamela had set a Spanish record of 8.56 m in Turin in June and was thus able to confirm his indoor record outdoors. In a high-class competition Lamela took the lead first. Then Pedroso took the lead with 8.56 m, while three jumpers fought for the medals. Lamela won silver with 8.40 m from the fourth attempt ahead of Gregor Cankar (SLO) with 8.36 m and Jai Taurima (AUS) with 8.35 m. But Pedroso won his third title in a row.
At the 2000 Olympic Games , Lamela was 19th in qualification. Four years later at the Athens Games , he was eleventh in the preliminary fight.
After a relatively unsuccessful year 2001, Lamela came back at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2002 in Vienna and finished second behind his compatriot Raúl Fernández with 8.17 m . At the European Championships in Munich , Lamela won bronze with 7.99 m behind Oleksij Lukaschewytsch (UKR) and Siniša Ergotić (CRO).
At the World Indoor Championships in 2003 Lamela won silver with 8.28 m and one centimeter behind Dwight Phillips (USA). In the summer at the World Championships , Phillips again won ahead of James Beckford (JAM) and Lamela, who was 8.22 m behind gold.
On March 8, 2009, he lost his indoor European record to the German Sebastian Bayer .
Yago Lamela was 1.78 m and weighed 68 kg at competition times. He studied computer engineering at the University of Oviedo .
Lamela, who ended his career in 2009, was found dead in his home on the evening of May 8, 2014. A heart attack was found to be the cause during an autopsy .
Web links
- Yago Lamela in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Yago Lamela in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Ex-world-class long jumper Yago Lamela found dead" , article on N24 .de
- ↑ Reports say Lamela death was heart attack , article of the Marca of September 5, 2014, accessed on May 29, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamela, Yago |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lamela Tobio, Santiago |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish long jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Avilés , Asturias , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | before May 8, 2014 |
| Place of death | Avilés , Asturias , Spain |