Yoandri Betanzos

Yoandri Betanzos
Full name	Yoandri Betanzo's Francis
nation	Cuba
birthday	February 15, 1982
place of birth	Santiago de Cuba , Cuba
size	179 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	Triple jump
Best performance	17.65 m (April 25, 2009 in Havana)
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 3 × 2 × Pan American Games 1 × 1 × 1 ×
World championships silver 2003 Paris 17.28 m bronze 2004 Budapest (hall) 17.36 m silver 2005 Helsinki 17.42 m bronze 2006 Moscow (hall) 17.42 m silver 2010 Doha (hall) 17.69 m Pan American Games gold 2003 Santo Domingo 17.26 m bronze 2007 Rio de Janeiro 16.90 m silver 2011 Guadalajara 16.54 m
last change: August 15, 2012

Yoandri Betanzos Francis (born February 15, 1982 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban three jumper .

After he started athletics at the age of nine, his talent for the jumping disciplines was quickly discovered. At first he concentrated on the high jump , but switched to the triple jump on the advice of his trainer, since he is not tall. In 1999 he won silver at the World Youth Championships, the following year silver at the World Junior Championships and in 2001 he became the Pan-American Junior Champion.

In 2003 he won the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo and shortly afterwards won silver at the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis .

In 2004 he won bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Budapest and came fourth at the Olympic Games in Athens . At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 he landed again on the silver rank.

In 2006 he won bronze again at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow . The following year, however, he failed at the World Championships in Osaka in qualifying. In 2008 he could not qualify for one of the three triple jump starting places in the Cuban national team for the Olympic Games in Beijing . After he had improved his personal best by two centimeters to 17.65 m in Havana in April 2009 , he was eliminated again in the qualification at the World Championships in Berlin in August .

Yoandri Betanzos is 1.79 m tall and has a competition weight of 71 kg.

Performance development

year	Triple jump (noun)
1999	15.83 (+0.1 m / s)
2000	16.82 (+1.7 m / s)
2001	16.84 (+2.0 m / s)
2002	17.29 (+1.9 m / s)
2003	17.28 (+0.2 m / s)
2004	17.53 (−0.4 m / s)
2005	17.46 (+0.1 m / s)
2006	17.63 (+1.0 m / s)
2007	16.96 (0.0 m / s)
2008	17.03 (+1.3 m / s)
2009	17.65 (+1.4 m / s)

Web links

• Yoandri Betanzos in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Portrait at IAAF - Focus on Athletes ( Memento from May 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), March 5, 2006 (updated February 28, 2008)
• Yoandri Betanzos on sporting-heroes.net
• Yoandri Betanzos in the official Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)