Yarisley Silva

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Yarisley Silva
Personal information
Full nameYarisley Silva Rodríguez
Born (1987-06-01) 1 June 1987 (age 36)
San Luis, Pinar del Río, Cuba
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country Cuba
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
Coached byAlexander Navas
Achievements and titles
Personal best4.91 m
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games
 0 1 0
World Championships
 1 0 2
World Indoor Championships
 1 0 0
Pan American Games 3 0 1
Total 5 1 3
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Pole vault
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Beijing Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Moscow Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place
2017 London
 Pole vault
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sopot Pole vault
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima
Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Rio de Janeiro Pole vault
Updated on 7 January 2015.
In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Silva and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez.

Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born 1 June 1987) is a Cuban pole vaulter.[1] She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event.

Silva became the first Cuban woman to reach a world class standard in the pole vault. Her personal bests of 4.90 m (16 ft 3⁄4 in) outdoors and 4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) indoors are the

Cuban and Central American and Caribbean records
for the event.

She emerged at the regional level with a silver medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, and a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. She then won gold medals at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and the 2011 Pan American Games.

Silva represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics and came fifth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.

Career

Early career

Born in

Cuban Athletics Championships and winning the Barrientos Memorial in 2003.[4] In 2004, she cleared four metres for the first time, which was a Central American and Caribbean junior record. She improved this to 4.10 m at the 2005 Barrientos meet, winning the competition again.[3]

The 2006 season saw her win her first national title and take a third Barrientos Memorial win. She competed internationally for the first time, taking silver at the Central American and Caribbean Games,[5] but failing to clear a height at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics after her poles did not arrive at the competition. Silva ended the season having improved her regional junior record to 4.20 m.[3] In her first year of senior competition she won gold at the 2007 ALBA Games and a bronze at the 2007 Pan American Games. The latter was her country's first medal in the event at the Games and she broke the Central American and Caribbean record with her clearance of 4.30 m. She improved to 4.50 m in early 2008, but a lack of high level competitions meant she managed on 4.15 m in qualifying on her Olympic debut in Beijing.[3]

Silva competed solely in

championship record of 4.40 m.[6]

International competition and Olympic medal

The 2011 season marked the first time she gained the chance to compete on the international circuit against world class opposition.[3] She competed extensively and had a series of top three finishes across Europe. She broke her personal best on five occasions that year, improving from 4.55 m to 4.75 m over the course of the year.[7]

Silva, coached by Alexander Navas, and her fellow Cuban vaulter

Lazaro Borges both emerged as top level athletes in the men's and women's pole vault that year. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics she came fifth in the final with a regional record vault of 4.70 m, while Borges broke the Cuban record to take the men's silver medal. The pair took gold medals in their events at the end-of-season 2011 Pan American Games, where Silva beat world champion Fabiana Murer with a games record mark of 4.75 m.[3]

Her first indoor meetings came at the start of 2012. In February she set

DN Galan.[10] At the 2012 London Olympics she equalled her personal best of 4.75 m in the women's pole vault final to place second behind Jenn Suhr and win the silver medal – an Olympic first in the pole vault by a Latin American athlete.[11]

Silva began 2013 with a world-leading mark of 4.76 m to win the Pole Vault Stars meeting.

Jennifer Suhr
.

During winter 2014, Silva became world champion at the

Beijing
jumping 4.90 m.

Personal bests

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing  Cuba
2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Cartagena, Colombia 2nd
3.95 m
World Junior Championships Beijing, China – NH
2007 ALBA Games Caracas, Venezuela 1st 4.15 m
Pan American Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 3rd 4.30 m
2008 Olympic Games
Beijing, China
 27th (q) 4.15 m
2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships
Havana, Cuba
 1st 4.40 m
2011 World Championships
Daegu, South Korea
 5th 4.70 m
Pan American Games
Guadalajara, Mexico
 1st 4.75 m
2012 World Indoor Championships
Istanbul, Turkey
 7th 4.55 m
Olympic Games
London, United Kingdom
 2nd 4.75 m
2013 World Championships
Moscow, Russia
 3rd 4.82 m
2014 World Indoor Championships
Sopot, Poland
 1st 4.70 m
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, Mexico 1st 4.60 m A
2015 Pan American Games
Toronto, Canada
 1st 4.85 m
World Championships
Beijing, China
 1st 4.90 m
2016 Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 7th 4.60 m
2017 World Championships
London, United Kingdom
 3rd 4.65 m
2018 World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
 7th 4.60 m
Central American and Caribbean Games
Barranquilla, Colombia
 1st 4.70 m
NACAC Championships
Toronto, Canada
 2nd 4.70 m
2019 Pan American Games
Lima, Peru
 1st 4.75 m
World Championships
Doha, Qatar
 11th 4.70 m
2021 Olympic Games
Tokyo, Japan
 8th 4.50 m

References

  1. ^ XXIX JUEGOS OLIMPICOS BEIJING 2008 - Delegación Cubana (PDF) (in Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Deportes Educación Física y Recreación (INDER), p. 57, archived from the original (PDF) on 1 January 2016, retrieved 24 June 2013
  2. ^ ENTREVISTA: Yarisley Silva: «Fue una competencia excepcional» . CubaSi (25 October 2011). Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Focus on Athletes - Yarisley SILVA. IAAF (28 July 2012). Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  4. ^ Yarisley Silva. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 24 March 2013.
  5. ^ 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, women's pole vault final
  6. ^ XXII Campeonato CAC Atletismo 2009 Archived 26 May 2012 at archive.today. Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation. Retrieved on 14 July 2009.
  7. ^ Yarisley Silva. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 24 March 2013.
  8. ^ Ramsak, Bob (12 February 2012). In post-injury comeback, Lavillenie tops 5.82m in Donetsk. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-02-12.
  9. ^ Julin, A. Lennart (23 February 2012). Isinbayeva clears 5.01m World record in Stockholm! - Updated. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  10. ^ Viewing Diamond League Meetings > DN Galan > Pole Vault. IAAF. Retrieved on 24 March 2013.
  11. ^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (18 December 2012). After London silver, Yarisley Silva aims at more success in 2013. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  12. ^ Minshull, Phil (9 February 2013). Lavillenie and Silva hit the heights in Donetsk. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  13. ^ Julin, A. Lennart (21 February 2013). World leads from Aregawi, Rupp and Dibaba in Stockholm. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  14. ^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (18 March 2013). Silva soars to 4.81m, Martinez throws 85.59m at Cuban National Champs. IAAF. Retrieved on 2013-03-24.
  15. ^ Dunaway, Jim (26 April 2013). "Silva and Simpson shine, Aries Merritt beaten at Drake Relays". IAAF. Retrieved 27 April 2013.

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