Fullname: | Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández |
Birth Date: | 4 August 1973 |
Birth Place: | Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus |
Height: | 1.81m (05.94feet) |
Weight: | 83kg (183lb) |
Sport: | Athletics |
Updated: | 30 May 2013 |
Yoelbi Luis Quesada Fernández (pronounced as /es/; born August 4, 1973, in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus) is a Cuban athlete competing mostly in triple jump.
He has an Olympic bronze medal, and became world champion in 1997 with a personal best jump of 17.85m.
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1990 | Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) | Havana, Cuba | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 16.68 m (+1.2 m/s) | |
World Junior Championships | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Triple jump | 16.62 m (+1.2 m/s) | ||
1991 | Pan American Games | Havana, Cuba | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.06 m | |
World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 7th | Triple jump | 16.94 m (-0.4 m/s) | |||
1992 | World Junior Championships | Seoul, South Korea | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.04 m (+0.4 m/s) | |
Ibero-American Championships | Seville, Spain | bgcolor=gold | 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 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.06 m | ||
1995 | World Indoor Championships | Barcelona, Spain | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.62 m | |
Pan American Games | Mar del Plata, Argentina | bgcolor=gold | 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 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.85 m (+0.9 m/s) | |
Universiade | Catania, Italy | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.35 m (-0.3 m/s) | ||
1998 | Central American and Caribbean Games | Maracaibo, Venezuela | bgcolor=gold | 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 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 17.40 m (+0.1 m/s) | ||
Pan American Games | Winnipeg, Canada | bgcolor=gold | 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) | ||
Olympic Games | Athens, Greece | 8th | Triple jump | 16.96 m (+0.9 m/s) | |||
2007 | ALBA Games | Caracas, Venezuela | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Triple jump | 16.87 m (+0.0 m/s) |