Yumari González

Yumari González

Yumari González (2008)
To person
Full name	Yumari González Valdinieso
Date of birth	June 13, 1979
nation	Cuba
discipline	Train / street
End of career	2016
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2009 - Scratch 2007 - Scratch
Last updated: June 24, 2018

Yumari González Valdinieso (born June 13, 1979 in Santa Clara , Cuba ) is a former Cuban cyclist who is active on track and road . She became world and panamerican champions.

Athletic career

1997 Yumari González first drew international attention with a second place finish at the Track World Junior Championships in Cape Town in the Sprint . In 2005, at the Pan American Championships in Mar del Plata , she won the sprint and took third place in the 500 m time trial , in the points trial and in the road race. In 2006 and 2008 she was able to win the road race of the Pan American Championships; 2007 that of the Pan American Games .

In 2007 and 2009 , Yumari González was world champion in scratch on the track; In 2008 and 2010 she became vice world champion in this discipline. In 2012 she became the Pan-American road racing champion , and at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games , she won the gold medal in the team pursuit together with her teammates Marlies Mejías , Arlenis Sierra and Yudelmis Dominguez . She was runner-up in the road race. She had another great success at the Pan-American Championships in 2015 with third place in the road race. The following year, she became the national road individual time trial champion. In the same year she ended her cycling career.

successes

train

1997

• Junior World Championship - Sprint

2005

• Panamerican Champion - Scratch
• Pan American Championship - points race, 500 meter time trial

2007

• World Champion - Scratch

2008

• World Championship - Scratch
• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - Team Pursuit (with Dalila Rodriguez and Yudelmis Dominguez )

2009

• World Champion - Scratch
• World Championship - points race

2010

• World Championship - Scratch

2011

• Pan American Championship - Team Pursuit (with Dalila Rodriguez and Yudelmis Dominguez )

2014

• Central America and Caribbean Games - Team Pursuit (with Marlies Mejías , Arlenis Sierra and Yudelmis Dominguez )

Street

2005

• Pan American Championship - Road Race

2006

• Panamerican Champion - Road Race
• Central America and Caribbean Games - Street Racing

2007

• Panamerican Champion - Road Race

2008

• Panamerican Champion - Road Race
• Cuban Champion - Road Race

2011

• Pan American Championship - Road Race

2012

• Panamerican Champion - Road Race
• Cuban Champion - Road Race

2014

• Central America and Caribbean Games - Street Racing

2015

• Pan American Championship - Road Race

2016

• Cuban Champion - Individual Time Trial

Web links

Commons : Yumari González  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yumari González in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Yumari González in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Yumari González in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estrellas cubanas: Yumari González , JIT.cu, June 22, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2016 (Spanish)