Yarisley Silva

Yarisley Silva
at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing
Full name	Yarisley Silva Rodríguez
nation	Cuba
birthday	1st June 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Pinar del Río , Cuba
size	161 cm
Weight	63 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	4.91 m (August 2, 2015 in Beckum )
Trainer	Alexander Navas
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 2 × Indoor world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Pan American Games 3 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver 2012 London 4.75 m  World championships bronze Moscow 2013 4.82 m gold Beijing 2015 4.90 m bronze London 2017 4.65 m  Indoor world championships gold Sopot 2014 4.70 m Pan American Games bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro 4.30 m gold 2011 Guadalajara 4.75 m gold 2015 Toronto 4.85 m gold 2019 Lima 4.75 m
last change: August 21, 2019

Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born June 1, 1987 in Pinar del Río ) is a Cuban pole vaulter .

Career

In 2006, Silva won the silver medal behind her compatriot Maryoris Sánchez at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena with a skipped 3.95 m . The following year she was third behind the Brazilian Fabiana Murer and the US American April Steiner at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro with 4.30 m . At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, however, she could not qualify for the final with 4.15 m, after she had increased the Cuban record to 4.50 m at the beginning of the year.

At the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Havana in 2009, Silva won with 4.40 m and thus achieved a new championship record. In 2011 she improved the Cuban record to 4.66 m, before she succeeded in August at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, another increase to 4.70 m, which brought her fifth place. In October of the same year she surprisingly won the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with the new Cuban record height of 4.75 m in front of the reigning world champion Fabiana Murer . At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , she won the silver medal with 4.75 m behind the American Jennifer Suhr , who won gold with the same jumped height due to fewer failed attempts.

At the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow, Silva won the bronze medal with a jump of 4.82 m behind Jelena Issinbajewa (Russia, 4.89 m) and Jennifer Suhr (4.82 m).

In her second participation in the indoor world championships, the competitions in Sopot 2014 , she won the gold medal with 4.70 m.

On July 23, 2015, Silva improved the Pan American Games record she set in 2011 by 10 cm at the Pan American Games in Toronto with 4.85 m and thus won the gold medal ahead of Murer and Suhr. On August 2nd, at the pole vault meeting in Beckum, Westphalia, she increased her best and with it the Cuban record to 4.91 m. On August 26, she won the gold medal at the World Championships in Beijing with 4.90 m.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, she finished seventh with a jump of 4.60 m.

In 2017 she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in London with 4.65 m.

The following year she came in seventh place with 4.60 m at the World Championships in Birmingham .

At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , she won the gold medal for the third time in a row with a season best of 4.75 m.

Silva lives and trains in Havana. In 2013 she successfully completed a degree in sports teacher.

Web links

Commons : Yarisley Silva  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yarisley Silva in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Yarisley Silva in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Yarisley Silva on the Diamond League website
• Yarisley Silva in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HDsports.at: Oldies and youngsters dominate the stadium round , August 6, 2012
2. ^ Women's Pole Vault. Official website of the Pan American Games Toronto 2015, accessed August 3, 2015