Denia Caballero

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Denia Caballero
Personal information
Born (1990-01-13) 13 January 1990 (age 34)
Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Weight70 kg (154 lb) [1]
Sport
CountryCuba
Sport Athletics
Event Discus throw
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus throw
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Beijing Discus throw
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Doha Discus throw
Pan American Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Toronto Discus throw
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Guadalajara Discus throw
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Lima Discus throw
CAC Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Mayagüez Discus throw

Denia Caballero Ponce (born 13 January 1990) is a Cuban athlete who competes in the discus throw. She has a personal best of 70.65 metres for the event. She won the gold medal at the 2015 and the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships and was the bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Caballero also was the Central American and Caribbean champion in 2011 and the 2011 Pan American Games bronze medallist.

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Career

Born in Caibarién, Villa Clara Province, [2] 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, [3] and became the Cuban junior champion. [4] Her family have all been involved in sports, her father as a boxer and her mother as a long jumper. Her uncle, Ricardo Ponce, is a triple jump coach for the Cuban national team. [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. [3] [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. [3] 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]

At the 2013 World Championships, she finished 8th. [5] She won the gold medal at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games with a new games record. [5] [14] The record had been set in 1982 by fellow Cuban Maria Betancourt. [14]

In 2015, as well as setting a new personal best, she won the Pan American Games, and produced a shock upset, beating pre-competition favourite Sandra Perkovic to win the World Championship. [5] [15] [16] Caballero was the first Cuban discus thrower to win the World title. [5]

She won the bronze medal at the women's discus throw event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [17]

Personal bests

EventResultVenueDate
Discus throw70.65 m Flag of Spain.svg Bilbao 20 June 2015
Hammer throw64.32 m Flag of Cuba.svg La Habana 8 February 2008

Achievements

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Flag of Cuba.svg  Cuba
2009 ALBA Games Havana, Cuba 4thDiscus56.91 m
2011 Central American and Caribbean Championships Mayagüez, Puerto Rico 1stDiscus 62.06 m
World Championships Daegu, South Korea9thDiscus 60.73 m
Pan American Games Guadalajara, Mexico 3rdDiscus 58.63 m A
2012 Olympic Games London, United Kingdom27th (q)Discus 58.78 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia8thDiscus 62.80 m
2014 Pan American Sports Festival Mexico City, Mexico1stDiscus 62.19 m A
Central American and Caribbean Games Xalapa, Mexico1stDiscus 64.47 m A
2015 Pan American Games Toronto, Canada 1stDiscus 65.39 m
World Championships Beijing, China 1stDiscus 69.28 m
2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 3rdDiscus 65.34 m
2017 World Championships London, United Kingdom 5thDiscus 64.37 m
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games Barranquilla, Colombia 2ndDiscus 65.10 m
2019 Pan American Games Lima, Peru 3rdDiscus 60.46 m
World Championships Doha, Qatar 2ndDiscus 68.44 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 23rd (q)Discus 57.96 m
2022 NACAC Championships Freeport, Bahamas 2ndDiscus 61.86 m

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References

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  2. ↑ Denia Caballero Archived 30 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine . London2012. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 Caballero Denia Archived 27 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
  4. ↑ Outdoors Jul–Dec 2008 Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine . World Junior Athletics News. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "Caballero has twin goals for 2016 – Rio gold and a national record| News | iaaf.org". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  6. ↑ III Juegos de ALBA 2009 [ permanent dead link ](in Spanish). Atletismo Peruano. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Denia Caballero Ponce Archived 29 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine . Olimpiada Cubana. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Clavelo Robinson, Javier (29 May 2011). New talents emerge at Barrientos Memorial in Havana Archived 1 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine . IAAF. Retrieved on 26 July 2012.
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Sporting positions
Preceded by Women's Discus Best Year Performance
2015		Succeeded by
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