Denia Caballero

Denia Caballero
Personal information
Born (1990-01-13) January 13, 1990
Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  Cuba
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Discus
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus throw
World Championships
2015 Beijing Discus throw
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto Discus throw
2011 Guadalajara Discus throw
CAC Championships
2011 Mayagüez Discus throw
Updated on 25 August 2015.
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Caballero and the second or maternal family name is Ponce.

Denia Caballero Ponce (born 13 January 1990) is a Cuban track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. She has a personal best of 70.65 metres for the event. She was the Central American and Caribbean champion in 2011 and the 2011 Pan American Games bronze medallist.[2]

Career

Born in Caibarién, Villa Clara Province,[3] she took part in track and field as a teenager and at the age of eighteen she cleared fifty metres in the javelin for the first time, setting a personal best mark of 52.10 m,[4] and became the Cuban junior champion.[5] In 2009 she had a succession of personal bests including 56.91 m for fourth at the 2009 ALBA Games and 57.21 m at a meeting in Havana.[4][6]

Caballero came third at both the Barrientos Memorial and Olimpiada del Deporte Cubano in Havana in 2010 (improving her best mark to 59.30 then 59.92 m).[7] Havana was again the venue for her first throw over sixty metres in 2011, as she had a mark of 60.50 m then won the Barrientos meet a week later with a best of 62.94 m.[8] This earned her a spot at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and she reached the final round, finishing ninth with a mark of 60.73 m.[4] She had much success regionally that year, winning the gold medal at the 2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics,[9] as well as a bronze medal at the 2011 Pan American Games (an event won by fellow Cuban Yarelys Barrios).[10][11]

A throw of 65.60 m in March 2012 lifted her to fourth in the world rankings and she was later chosen to perform in the discus alongside Barrios in 2012 Cuban Olympic squad.[12][13]

She won the bronze medal at the women's discus throw event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[14]

Personal bests

Event Result Venue Date
Discus throw 70.65 m Spain Bilbao 20 June 2015
Hammer throw 64.32 m Cuba La Habana 8 Feb 2008

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Cuba
2009 ALBA Games Havana, Cuba 4th Discus 56.91 m
2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1st Discus 62.06 m
World Championships Daegu, South Korea 9th Discus 60.73 m
Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 3rd Discus 58.63 m A
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom 27th (q) Discus 58.78 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia 8th Discus 62.80 m
2014 Pan American Sports Festival Mexico City, Mexico 1st Discus 62.19 m A
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, Mexico 1st Discus 64.47 m A
2015 Pan American Games Toronto, Canada 1st Discus 65.39 m
World Championships Beijing, China 1st Discus 69.28 m
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3rd Discus 65.34 m

References

  1. 1 2 "CABALLERO Denia". results.toronto2015.org. 2015 Pan American Games. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Denia Caballero (in Spanish), EcuRed, retrieved January 9, 2015
  3. ↑ Denia Caballero. London2012. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  4. 1 2 3 Caballero Denia. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  5. ↑ Outdoors Jul-Dec 2008. World Junior Athletics News. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  6. ↑ III Juegos de ALBA 2009 (Spanish). Atletismo Peruano. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  7. ↑ Denia Caballero Ponce. Olimpiada Cubana. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  8. ↑ Clavelo Robinson, Javier (2011-05-29). New talents emerge at Barrientos Memorial in Havana. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  9. ↑ Atletismo: Denia Caballero, primer oro de Cuba en Centroamericanos (Spanish). TV Yumuri. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  10. ↑ Cubanos Robles y Barrios suman oros y récords. JIT (2011-10-21). Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  11. ↑ Biography - CABALLERO Denia, PASO, retrieved January 9, 2015
  12. ↑ Montesinos, Enrique (2012-04-04). Yarelis Barrios – A great among the greats. Granma International. Retrieved on 2012-07-26.
  13. ↑ Cuba announces team of 47 for London Games. IAAF (2012-07-16). Retrieved on 2012-07-16.
  14. ↑ "Denia Caballero". Rio 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Sandra Perković		 Women's Discus Best Year Performance
2015 		Succeeded by
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