Yoelbi Quesada
Cuban triple jumper
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Full name | Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1973-08-04) August 4, 1973 (age 50) Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 30 May 2013 |
Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝoˈelβi keˈsaða]; born August 4, 1973, in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus) is a Cuban athlete competing mostly in triple jump.
Career
He has an Olympic bronze medal, and became world champion in 1997 with a personal best jump of 17.85m.
Personal best
- Triple jump: 17.85 m (wind: +0.9 m/s) –
Athens, 8 August 1997
Competition record
References
- ^ Out of competition performance ineligible for medals.
External links
- Yoelbi Quesada at World Athletics
- Yoelbi Quesada at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Picture: Yoelbi Quesada, world champion in triple jump in 1997
- Calixto, Néstor (20 Apr 2009), Cuba, tierra de triplistas (in Spanish), CACAC, archived from the original on 2009-08-05, retrieved Mar 25, 2012
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World champions in men's triple jump
- 1983:
Zdzisław Hoffmann (POL)
- 1987:
Khristo Markov (BUL)
- 1991:
Kenny Harrison (USA)
- 1993:
Mike Conley (USA)
- 1995:
Jonathan Edwards (GBR)
- 1997:
Yoelbi Quesada (CUB)
- 1999:
Charles Friedek (GER)
- 2001:
Jonathan Edwards (GBR)
- 2003:
Christian Olsson (SWE)
- 2005:
Walter Davis (USA)
- 2007:
Nelson Évora (POR)
- 2009:
Phillips Idowu (GBR)
- 2011:
Christian Taylor (USA)
- 2013:
Teddy Tamgho (FRA)
- 2015:
Christian Taylor (USA)
- 2017:
Christian Taylor (USA)
- 2019:
Christian Taylor (USA)
- 2022:
Pedro Pichardo (POR)
- 2023:
Hugues Fabrice Zango (BFA)
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Preceded by![]() | World Junior Championship record holder – Men's triple jump 19 September 1992 – 27 July 2014 | Succeeded by![]() |
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Preceded by![]() | World Junior Champion – Men's triple jump 19 September 1992 – July 1994 | Succeeded by |