Yarelys Barrios Castañeda (also Yarelis Barrios Castañeda; born July 12, 1983, in Pinar del Río) is a discus thrower from Cuba.
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editShe 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
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.
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- ^ "Original Second Place Silver Winner Summer Olympic Medal Beijing 2008 Athletics". eBay. June 6, 2016.
External links
edit- Yarelis Barrios at World Athletics
- Yarelis Barrios at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography