Yipsi Moreno

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Yipsi Moreno athletics
Full name Yipsi Moreno González
nation CubaCuba Cuba
birthday November 19, 1980
place of birth Camaguey ,  CubaCubaCuba 
size 168 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline Hammer throw
Best performance 76.62 m (September 9, 2008 in Zagreb )
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pan American Games 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver 2004 Athens 73.36 m
gold 2008 Beijing 75.20 m
IAAF logo World championships
gold 2001 Edmonton 70.65 m
gold 2003 Paris 73.33 m
gold 2005 Helsinki 73.08 m
silver 2007 Osaka 74.74 m
Pan American Games logo Pan American Games
silver 1999 Winnipeg 63.03 m
gold 2007 Rio de Janeiro 75.20 m
gold 2011 Guadalajara 75.62 m
last change: August 15, 2012

Yipsi Moreno González (born November 19, 1980 in Camagüey ) is a former Cuban hammer thrower . She is the 2008 Olympic champion and three times world champion.

In her youth, her talent for the throwing disciplines of athletics was discovered at the sports boarding school in Havana . At the age of 14 she specialized in hammer throwing. In 1998 she finished fourth at the Junior World Championship. In 1999 she set a short-lived junior world record with 66.34 meters, won silver at the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg , but a few weeks later only finished 18th at the World Athletics Championships in Seville .

She finished fourth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, and another increase followed in 2001. First she surpassed the 70-meter mark, then she won gold at the World Championships in Edmonton and silver at the Universiade . In 2003 she broke the 75-meter mark and defended her title at the World Cup in Paris .

At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, she won the silver medal with 73.36 m behind Olga Kusenkowa (RUS) and in front of her compatriot Yunaika Crawford .

At the next World Cup in Helsinki in 2005 , she first won silver with 73.08 m behind Olga Kusenkowa, who was stripped of the world title in favor of Moreno due to a doping test in March 2013. In 2007 in Osaka she stayed second behind Betty Heidler (GER) with 74.74 m . On June 17, 2007, she improved her own North and Central America record to 76.36 m in Warsaw . Moreno came second again at the 2008 Olympic Games . With 75.20 m she placed behind the Belarusian Aksana Mjankowa and in front of the Chinese Zhang Wenxiu . On November 25, 2016, the Belarusian was stripped of her gold medal by the IOC and Yipsi Moreno was declared Olympic champion.

At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 , Moreno finished 5th with 74.60 m. She had already announced in February 2012 that she would retire from active sport after the Olympic Games. After the competition, however, she decided to train for another year and try to qualify for the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. There she reached sixth place again in her seventh World Cup participation.

After she had won the Pan American and Caribbean Games in Xalapa in October 2014 with 71.35 m, she finally ended her competitive sports career. Overall, she achieved distances beyond the 70-meter mark in 143 competitions.

Yipsi Moreno is 1.68 m tall and has a competition weight of 70 kg. She is married to her physiotherapist, Abdel Quintana, and has one daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Luis López Viera: Hay tiempo para decir adiós , in: Juventud Rebelde from August 10, 2012, accessed on August 17, 2012 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Jan-Henner Reitze: Yipsi Moreno leaves the ring . German Athletics Association. November 29, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Moreno, Yipsi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moreno González, Yipsi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban hammer thrower
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Camaguey , Cuba