Full Name: | Estela Rodríguez Villanueva |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1967[1] |
Birth Place: | Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
Death Place: | Havana, Cuba |
Country: | Cuba |
Weight Class: | +72 kg, Open |
Worlds Rank: | 1 |
Worlds Year: | 1989 |
Regionals Type: | AM |
Regionals Rank: | 1 |
Regionals Year: | 1990 |
Regionals Year2: | 1992 |
Olympics Rank: | 2 |
Olympics Year: | 1992 |
Olympics Weight: | Women's +72 kg |
Olympics Year2: | 1996 |
Olympics Weight2: | Women's +72 kg |
Updated: | 4 June 2023 |
Estela Rodríguez Villanueva (17 November 1967 – 10 April 2022) was a Cuban judoka. She won silver medals at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, both in the Half Heavyweight (over 72 kg) category.[2] She returned a positive test to banned diuretic drug called furosemide at the 1996 Olympics, but was only issued with a reprimand, and allowed to keep her medals.[3] Rodríguez died in Havana on 10 April 2022, at the age of 54.[4]