Yoelbi Quesada

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Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández (also spelled Yoelvis in some sources ; born August 4, 1973 in Trinidad ) is a former Cuban triple jumper .

The vice-junior world champion from 1990 was seventh at the 1991 world championships and won the Pan-American Games in Havana . In 1992 he was junior world champion and at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona sixth with 17.18 meters.

In 1993 he finished fifth at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto , and twelfth at the World Championships in Stuttgart .

In 1995 he won at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona with 17.62 meters silver behind Brian Wellman from Bermuda and defended his title at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata . At the World Championships in Gothenburg , Quesada finished fourth with 17.59 meters supported by the wind and only missed bronze because of the poorer second attempt.

Yoelbi Quesada won his only Olympic medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta with 17.44 meters behind Kenny Harrison with 18.09 meters and Jonathan Edwards with 17.88 meters. He had four centimeters ahead of Mike Conley Sr .

Quesada was able to achieve his greatest success in 1997 when he won the World Championships in Athens with a personal best of 17.85 meters in the second attempt before Jonathan Edwards. Shortly afterwards he also won gold at the Universiade .

At the World Indoor Championships in Maebashi in 1999 , he was fourth. At the Pan American Games in Winnipeg he defended his title for the second time, won again at the Universiade, but then only finished tenth at the World Championships in Seville .

At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Quesada was again among the world's best. With his last attempt of 17.37 meters, Quesada took third place, but was ousted by one place by his compatriot Yoel García when García won silver in his last attempt with 17.47 meters.

At the World Indoor Championships 2003 in Birmingham and at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo won Quesada bronze. At the World Championships in Paris / Saint-Denis , Quesada was ninth with 16.84 and missed the final battle by just two centimeters.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Quesada was eighth again with 16.96 meters.

With this competition he ended his active career. He has a degree in sports science and joined the team of long jump coaches under head coach Milán Matos in Havana. He later married a Spaniard with whom he moved to Barcelona and started a family there. When his wife was offered a job in Ingolstadt , the family moved to Germany in mid-2012. Quesada hoped to work here as a coach later. After Matos' unexpected withdrawal from Cuban sport, Quesada took over the role of national coach of the triple jumpers in May 2013, including Mabel Gay , who is the team's best jumper after Yargelis Savigne's withdrawal in July 2013.

With a height of 1.81 m, his competition weight was 71 kg. In the Cuban media, he was nicknamed "El Chispa" (the spark).

literature

  • Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2006. The international Track and Field Annual. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2006, ISBN 1-899807-34-9 .
  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996. Full Results from AOHNA. Athens to Atlanta Track and Fields Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999 ( 100 years of athletics in Germany ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Köchl: Yoelbi Quesada - ex-world champion in Ingolstadt. In: Leichtathletik Aktuell from November 27, 2012, accessed on December 1, 2013
  2. ↑ Yoelbi Quesada: “Vamos a trabajar por incluirnos nuevamente en la élite mundial…” In: DeporCuba of December 1, 2013 (Spanish)
  3. ^ Harold Iglesias Manresa: Triple salto femenino: Cambio de mentalidad; los mismos horizontes. In: Granma of November 22, 2013, accessed December 1, 2013 (Spanish)
  4. ↑ Yoelbis Quesada: el “canguro” mayor. ( Memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Radio Trinidad Digital of June 24, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2013 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Quesada, Yoelbi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quesada Fernández, Yoelbi Luis; Quesada, Yoelvis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban triple jumper
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Trinidad (Cuba)