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Full name | Yumileidi Cumbá Jay | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Guantánamo |
February 11, 1975 |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Cuba | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 19.97 m | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 14 June 2013. |
Yumileidi Cumbá Jay also Yumisleidis (Spanish pronunciation: [ʝumiˈleiði kumˈba]; born February 11, 1975 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban shot putter.
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.
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