Yandro Quintana

Yandro Miguel Quintana Ribalta (born November 30, 1980 in Ciego de Ávila ) is a former Cuban wrestler . He was the 2004 featherweight free style Olympic champion.

Career

Yandro Quintana started wrestling at the age of 8 in 1988. After his first national successes, he was delegated to the top Cuban club Cerro Pelado Cuba Havana, where he was trained by Filiberto Delgado. Arturo Yanez joined the Cuban national relay as a coach. The 1.62 meter tall athlete wrestled in bantam and featherweight and only in free style. He studied sports in Havana.

The first appearance of Yandro Quintana at an international championship took place in 1998 at the World Youth Games in Moscow . He came there in the weight class up to 42 kg body weight in 6th place. A year later he won his first medal at the Junior World Championships in Sydney with a third place in the bantamweight division.

From 2000 to 2008 he started regularly at almost all major international championships and was able to win many victories and medals. His first win came in 2000 when he was in Cali (Colombia) Pan American bantamweight champion in front of the American Eric S. Guerrero and the Canadian Guivi Sissaouri . However , he has not yet been used at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney .

He defended the title of Pan-American Master in 2001 in Santo Domingo . He won there again in bantamweight before Arnel Kernizan de Jesus from Puerto Rico and Chris Feeger from the United States. At the world championship this year in Sofia he came with three wins to the quarter-finals, in which he was defeated against the Mongols Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar and thus took 7th place.

In 2002, Yandro Quintana was again Pan American champion in Maracaibo . He won featherweight ahead of Saeed Azarbayjani from Canada and Danny Felix from the United States. At the 2002 World Cup in Tehran , he managed only one victory over Ryosuke Ota from Japan . He only reached 12th place. In 2003 he won the Pan American Featherweight Games in Santo Domingo in front of Guivi Sissaouri and Eric S. Guerrero. Shortly afterwards he succeeded in winning his first medal at a world championship in New York . After victories over renowned opponents such as Anatoli Guidea from Bulgaria , Wassyl Fodoryschyn from Ukraine , Tevfik Odabasi from Turkey and Song Jae-Myung from South Korea, he was only defeated in the final against Arif Abdullayev from Azerbaijan with 1: 2 rounds (3: 4 technical points).

In 2004, Yandro Quintana won again in Guatemala City at the Pan American Featherweight Championships in front of Clint Musser from the United States and Jonathan Rodriguez from Puerto Rico. The Olympic Games in Athens that year became the highlight of his career . With victories over Ivan Velikov Djosew from Bulgaria, Sushil Kumar from India , Dawid Pogosjan from Georgia , Wassyl Fedoryschyn and Masoud Mostafa Jokar from Iran, he won the Olympic gold medal in a superior style .

At the 2005 World Cup in Budapest , Yandro Quintana failed to become world champion for the first time . There he defeated Kenichi Yumoto from Japan, Tevfik Odabasi, Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar and Morad Mohammadi from Iran, but was defeated in the final against Alan Dudajew from Russia with 1: 2 rounds (4: 5 technical points) and had to fight like in 2003 content with the runner-up world title. At the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou he was defeated in the 3rd round by the new Russian star Mawlet Batirow , where his defeat with 0: 2 rounds and 0: 3 techn. Points was pretty clear, so dropped out and only reached 9th place.

In 2007, Yandro Quintana won in Rio de Janeiro at the Pan American Games again in featherweight by defeating the 2006 vice world champion Mike Zadick from the United States. He has since been the sole record holder with six wins at Pan American Championships and Pan American Games. He did not start at the 2007 World Cup.

In 2008 he first had to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing that year . He succeeded in this impressively with a victory at the qualifying tournament in Martigny / Switzerland , where he won the featherweight against Selimchan Chusseinow from Azerbaijan and Morad Mohammadi. At the Olympic Games in Beijing he won his first fight over Qin He from China , but then lost his next fight again against Mawlet Batirow, against whom he was able to win a round this time. Since Batirow reached the final, Yandro Quintana got the chance to continue fighting in the consolation round. However, he was defeated here against Selimchan Chusseinow with 0: 2 rounds. He himself and the Cuban wrestling camp were of the opinion that he was disadvantaged in this fight, which led to his defeat.

In December 2008, he announced on Cuban television that he would end his wrestling career because of a persistent shoulder injury. He later started a new career as a coach.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1998	6th	World Youth Games in Moscow	up to 42 kg body weight	Winner: Dilshod Mansurov , Uzbekistan ahead of Kim Nam Chol, North Korea
1999	3.	Junior World Championships in Sydney	Bantam	behind Mehdi Nikranseh, Iran a . Iosif Momsedlidze, Kazakhstan
2000	2.	World Cup in Fairfax	feather	behind Cary J. Kolat , USA , in front of Selimchan Achmadow, Russia a . Akbar Behtari, Iran
2000	1.	Pan American Championship in Cali	Bantam	before Eric S. Guerrero , USA a. Guivi Sissaouri , Canada
2000	14th	Junior World Championships in Nantes	Bantam	after defeat against Serat Ferat, Bulgaria a . Victory over Enshallah Hosseini Sarangkeh, Iran
2001	1.	Pan American Championship in Santo Domingo	Bantam	before Arnel Kernizan de Jesus, Puerto Rico a . Chris Fleeger, USA
2001	7th	World Cup in Sofia	Bantam	with victories over Hy Dong Dang, Vietnam , Song Jae-Myung , South Korea a . Behnam Tayebi Kermani, Iran a. a loss to Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar , Mongolia
2002	1.	Pan American Championship in Maracaibo	feather	in front of Saeed Azarbayjani , Canada a. Danny Felix, USA
2002	12.	World Cup in Tehran	feather	with a victory over Ryosube Ota, Japan a . a loss to Aram Margarjan, Armenia
2003	1.	Pan American Games in Santo Domingo	feather	before Guivi Sissaouri u. Eric S. Guerrero
2003	2.	World Cup in New York	feather	with victories over Anatoli Guidea , Bulgaria , Wassyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine , Tevfik Odabasi , Turkey a . Song Jae-Myung u. a loss to Arif Abdullayev , Azerbaijan
2004	1.	Canada Cup in Guelph	feather	before Shinya Odate, Japan, Sayed Azarbayjani u. John Pineda, bde. Canada
2004	1.	Pan American Championship in Guatemala City	feather	before Clint Musser, USA a. Jonathan Rodriguez, Puerto Rico
2004	gold	OS in Athens	feather	with victories over Iwan Velikow Djosew , Bulgaria, Sushil Kumar , India , Dawid Pogosjan , Georgia , Wassyl Fedoryschyn u. Masoud Mostafa Jokar , Iran
2005	2.	"Ivan Yarigin" tournament in Krasnoyarsk	feather	behind Alan Dudajew and in front of Ramazan Satirow et al. Eldar Misirov, all Russia
2005	3.	Cerro Pelado-International in Sancti Spíritus	feather	behind Youly Bonne, Cuba a. Stephen Abbas , USA
2005	3.	"Ali-Aliev" memorial in Makhachkala	feather	behind Alan Dudajew u. Mawlet Batirow , both Russia
2005	1.	"Shamil Umakhanov " Memorial in Khassavyurt	feather	before Martin Berberjan , Armenia a. Adam Batirow , Russia
2005	1.	World Cup in Tashkent	feather	in front of Artisch Tambulak, Russia a. Behnam Tayebi Kermani
2005	2.	World Cup in Budapest	feather	with victories over Kenichi Yumoto, Japan, Tevfik Odabasi, Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar u. Morad Mohammadi , Iran and a loss to Alan Dudayev
2006	2.	"Yasar Dogu" Memorial in Istanbul	feather	behind Tevfik Odabasi u. before Sukru Gocer u. Arif Kama, all Turkey
2006	2.	World Cup in Sari / Iran	feather	behind Morad Mohammadi u. before Juri Semankin, Ukraine a. Ramil Islamow, Russia
2006	1.	Central American u. Caribbean championship in Cartagena / Colombia	feather	in front of Anendy Navarro, Dom. Rep. U. Blademir Hernandez, Venezuela
2006	9.	World Cup in Guangzhou / China	feather	with victories over Qin He , China a. Petru Toarcă , Romania a . a loss to Mawlet Batirov, Russia
2007	1.	Swiss Cup in Martigny	feather	in front of Anatoli Guidea, Didier Païs , France a . Reneo Montero, Cuba
2007	1.	Grand Prix of Germany in Leipzig	feather	before Petru Toarcă, Romania a. Bazar Bazargurujew, Kyrgyzstan
2007	1.	Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro	feather	before Mike Zadick , USA a. Tomas Solorzano, Venezuela
2008	1.	Grand Prix of Spain in Madrid	feather	before Sezar Akgul, Turkey a. Vitali Korjakin, Tajikistan
2008	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Martigny	feather	before Selimchan Chusseinow , Azerbaijan a . Morad Mohammadi, Iran
2008	8th.	OS in Beijing	feather	with a victory over Qin He, China a. Defeats against Mawlet Batirow u. Selimkhan Khuseinov

Note: Bantam weight, until 2001 up to 58 kg, since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight, feather weight, until 2001 up to 63 kg, since 2002 up to 60 kg body weight

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• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade journal Der Ringer ,
• US, Iranian, Canadian, Russian and other websites Swedish Wrestling Association

Web links

• Profile of Yandro Quintana at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Yandro Quintana in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yandro Quintana in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)