Yumileidi Cumbá Explained

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Yumileidi Cumbá
Full Name:	Yumileidi Cumbá Jay
Birth Date:	11 February 1975
Birth Place:	Guantánamo
Height:	1.82m (05.97feet)
Weight:	85kg (187lb)
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	Shot put
Pb:	19.97 m
Updated:	14 June 2013

Yumileidi Cumbá Jay (pronounced as /es/, also Yumisleidis, born February 11, 1975, in Guantánamo) is a Cuban shot putter.

Career

Her greatest season was 2004, when she won an Olympic gold medal and achieved a new personal best throw.

Her current personal best throw is 19.97 metres, achieved at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships in Huelva.

Her name is a transliteration of "You Milady", and is in the Cuban tradition of using odd, foreign-born names.

Personal best

Outdoor

• Shot put: 19.97 m – Huelva, 8 August 2004

Indoor

• Shot put: 19.31 m – Budapest, 5 March 2004

International competitions

Representing
1990	Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17)	Havana, Cuba	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Shot put	14.54 m
			bgcolor=gold	1st	Discus throw	38.96 m
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, Korea	4th	Shot put	17.06 m
1993	Pan American Junior Championships	Winnipeg, Canada	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	17.55 m
			5th	Discus throw	42.84 m
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Ponce, Puerto Rico	2nd	Shot put	17.67 m
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	2nd	Shot put	18.09 m
1995	Pan American Games	Mar del Plata, Argentina	3rd	Shot put	18.47 m
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	20th	Shot put	15.80 m
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	13th (q)	Shot put	18.55 m
1998	Central American and Caribbean Games	Maracaibo, Venezuela	1st	Shot put	18.89 m
		Johannesburg, South Africa	4th	Shot put	18.76 m^[1]
1999		Maebashi, Japan	6th	Shot put	17.80 m
	Universiade	Palma, Spain	2nd	Shot put	18.70 m
	Pan American Games	Winnipeg, Canada	2nd	Shot put	18.67 m
		Seville, Spain	6th	Shot put	18.44 m
2000		Sydney, Australia	6th	Shot put	18.70 m
2001		Lisbon, Portugal	5th	Shot put	18.61 m
		Edmonton, Canada	8th	Shot put	18.73 m
	Universiade	Beijing, China	1st	Shot put	18.90 m
	Goodwill Games	Brisbane, Australia	2nd	Shot put	18.41 m
2002	Ibero-American Championships	Guatemala City, Guatemala	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	18.87 m
		Madrid, Spain	2nd	Shot put	19.14 m
2003		Birmingham, England	6th	Shot put	19.19 m
	Pan American Games	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	1st	Shot put	19.31 m
	World Championships	Paris, France	13th (q)	Shot put	17.95 m
2004		Budapest, Hungary	2nd	Shot put	19.31 m
	Ibero-American Championships	Huelva, Spain	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	19.97 m
		Athens, Greece	1st	Shot put	19.59 m
2005		Nassau, Bahamas	1st	Shot put	18.98 m
		Helsinki, Finland	4th	Shot put	18.64 m
	World Athletics Final	Monte Carlo, Monaco	7th	Shot put	18.44 m
2006		Moscow, Russia	5th	Shot put	18.28 m
		Cartagena, Colombia	1st	Shot put	19.31 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	4th	Shot put	18.78 m
	World Cup	Athens, Greece	3rd	Shot put	19.12 m
2007	ALBA Games	Caracas, Venezuela	bgcolor=gold	1st	Shot put	18.24 m
	Pan American Games	Rio, Brazil	2nd	Shot put	18.28 m
		Osaka, Japan	12th	Shot put	17.93 m
2008		Cali, Colombia	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Shot put	18.10 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	20th (q)	Shot put	17.60 m

External links

• • • Tilastopaja biography
• Picture of Yumileidi Cumbá as she celebrates winning silver in Olympia

Notes and References

1. Representing the Americas