Yarelys Barrios
Appearance
![]() Barrios at the 2012 Bislett Games | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Yarelis Barrios Castañeda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río | July 12, 1983||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yarelys Barrios Castañeda (also Yarelis Barrios Castañeda; born July 12, 1983, in Pinar del Río) is a discus thrower from Cuba.
Career
She won the Diamond Race in the women's discus throw of the
2011
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She won the 2012 Cuban National Championships with a personal best throw of 68.03 metres.[1]
Barrios finished the Olympic discus competition in 2008 in the second place, but was disqualified by the IOC on September 1, 2016, because of doping due to a sample reanalysis which resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance Acetazolamide.[2]
Barrios sold her Olympic silver medal on auction site, eBay, for unknown reasons, and it was bought for $11,000 (£9,000).[3]
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing ![]() | |||||
2005 | ALBA Games | La Habana, Cuba
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1st | Discus | 60.41 m |
Central American and Caribbean Championships
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Nassau, Bahamas | 1st | Discus | 56.59 m | |
2006 | Central American and Caribbean Games | Cartagena, Colombia
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2nd | Discus | 58.22 m
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2007 | World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 2nd | Discus | 63.90 m (=PB) |
Pan American Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 1st | Discus | 61.72 m | |
Universiade | Bangkok, Thailand | 1st | Discus | 61.36 m | |
2008 | Central American and Caribbean Championships
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Cali, Colombia | 1st | Discus | 62.87 m |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | DSQ (2nd) | Discus | ||
2009 | ALBA Games | Havana, Cuba | 2nd | Discus | 63.24 m |
Central American and Caribbean Championships | Havana, Cuba | 1st | Discus | 62.10 m | |
World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 2nd | Discus | 65.31 m | |
2010 | Ibero-American Championships
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San Fernando, Spain | 2nd | Discus | 59.96 m
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Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 3rd | Discus | 62.58 m | |
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 3rd | Discus | 65.73 m |
Pan American Games | Guadalajara, Mexico
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1st | Discus | 66.40 m | |
2012 | Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 3rd | Discus | 66.38 m |
2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 3rd | Discus | 64.96 m |
- Barrios originally finished 4th in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she moved up a position after Darya Pishchalnikova was disqualified for testing positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone.
References
- ^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (March 27, 2012). "Barrios throws 68.03m in Havana". IAAF. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
Yarelis Barrios
- ^ "IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008". IOC. September 1, 2016.
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- ^ "Original Second Place Silver Winner Summer Olympic Medal Beijing 2008 Athletics". eBay. June 6, 2016.
External links
- Yarelis Barrios at World Athletics
- Yarelis Barrios at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography