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Yoelbi Quesada
Personal information
Full name	Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández
Born	August 4, 1973 (age 51); Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Athletics
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing Cuba
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Pan American Games
World Junior Championships
CAC Junior Championships (U20)
	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

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Cuba
1990	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)	Havana, Cuba	1st	Triple jump	16.68 m (+1.2 m/s)
1990	World Junior Championships	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	2nd	Triple jump	16.62 m (+1.2 m/s)
1991	Pan American Games	Havana, Cuba	1st	Triple jump	17.06 m
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	7th	Triple jump	16.94 m (-0.4 m/s)
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	1st	Triple jump	17.04 m (+0.4 m/s)
	Ibero-American Championships	Seville, Spain	1st	Triple jump	16.93 m w (+2.2 m/s)
	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	6th	Triple jump	17.18 m (+1.9 m/s)
1993	World Indoor Championships	Toronto, Canada	5th	Triple jump	17.06 m
	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	12th	Triple jump	16.77 m (-0.1 m/s)
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Ponce, Puerto Rico	1st	Triple jump	17.06 m
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	2nd	Triple jump	17.62 m
	Pan American Games	Mar del Plata, Argentina	1st	Triple jump	17.67 m (+1.4 m/s)
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	Triple jump	17.59 m w (+2.6 m/s)
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	3rd	Triple jump	17.44 m (+0.2 m/s)
1997	World Championships	Athens, Greece	1st	Triple jump	17.85 m (+0.9 m/s)
1997	Universiade	Catania, Italy	1st	Triple jump	17.35 m (-0.3 m/s)
1998	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	1st	Triple jump	17.18 m (+0.7 m/s)
1999	World Indoor Championships	Maebashi, Japan	4th	Triple jump	16.92 m
	Universiade	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	1st	Triple jump	17.40 m (+0.1 m/s)
	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Canada	1st	Triple jump	17.19 m (+0.6 m/s)
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	10th	Triple jump	16.88 m (+0.4 m/s)
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	4th	Triple jump	17.37 m SB (+0.3 m/s)
2003	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	Triple jump	17.27 m
	Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.	3rd	Triple jump	16.78 m (-0.4 m/s)
	World Championships	Saint-Denis, France	9th	Triple jump	16.84 m (-0.1 m/s)
2004	Ibero-American Championships	Huelva, Spain	2nd^[1]	Triple jump	17.13 m (+0.5 m/s)
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	8th	Triple jump	16.96 m (+0.9 m/s)
2007	ALBA Games	Caracas, Venezuela	2nd	Triple jump	16.87 m (+0.0 m/s)

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{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

Records
Preceded by Sergey Bykov	World Junior Championship record holder – Men's triple jump 19 September 1992 – 27 July 2014	Succeeded by Lázaro Martínez
Sporting positions
Preceded by Sergey Bykov	World Junior Champion – Men's triple jump 19 September 1992 – July 1994	Succeeded by Onochie Achike

[1] Out of competition performance ineligible for medals.

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