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Full name | Yarelis Barrios Castañeda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pinar del Río, Pinar del Río | July 12, 1983||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yarelys Barrios Castañeda (also Yarelis Barrios Castañeda; born July 12, 1983, in Pinar del Río) is a discus thrower from Cuba.
Career
She won the Diamond Race in the women's discus throw of the IAAF Diamond League both in 2010 and in 2011.
She won the 2012 Cuban National Championships with a personal best throw of 68.03 metres.[1]
Barrios finished the Olympic discus competition in 2008 in the second place, but was disqualified by the IOC on September 1, 2016, because of doping due to a sample reanalysis which resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance Acetazolamide.[2]
Barrios sold her Olympic silver medal on auction site, eBay, for unknown reasons, and it was bought for $11,000 (£9,000).[3]
Achievements
- Barrios originally finished 4th in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she moved up a position after Darya Pishchalnikova was disqualified for testing positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone.
References
- ^ Robinson, Javier Clavelo (March 27, 2012). "Barrios throws 68.03m in Havana". IAAF. Retrieved March 29, 2012.
Yarelis Barrios
- ^ "IOC sanctions two athletes for failing anti-doping tests at Beijing 2008". IOC. September 1, 2016.
Yarelys BARRIOS
- ^ "Original Second Place Silver Winner Summer Olympic Medal Beijing 2008 Athletics". eBay. June 6, 2016.
External links
- Yarelis Barrios at World Athletics
- Yarelis Barrios at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Doping cases in athletics
- Cuban female discus throwers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Cuba
- Sportspeople from Pinar del Río
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Cuban sportspeople in doping cases
- Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Diamond League winners
- IAAF World Athletics Final winners
- Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- 20th-century Cuban women
- 20th-century Cuban people
- 21st-century Cuban women
- Cuban athletics biography stubs