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| Birth name | Lester Alcides Lescay Gay | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 October 2001 Cuba | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||
| Event | long jump | ||||||||||||||
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Lester Alcides Lescay Gay (born 15 October 2001) is a Cuban-born-Spanish athlete who competes in the long jump. From January 2025 he competes for Spain. He was a bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships. [1]
He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, finishing behind teammate Maikel Vidal. [2] He won gold at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics long jump competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a jump of 7.79 metres. [3] Later that year, and still aged 16 years-old, Lescay achieved a new personal best of 7.91 meters in Havana. [4]
He made a 8.28m jump on the 23 February 2020 in Camagüey. [5] It was the fourth longest men's senior outdoor long jump worldwide in 2020. [6] It placed him tenth on the Cuban all-time list, as well as the sixth overall for an under-20 athlete of-all-time. [7] Lescay was included in Cuba's squad for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. At the Games, he jumped 7.69 metres without professing through to the final. [8]
He defected from Cuba in 2022 after taking part in a competition in Belgrade, Serbia. He started to compete in Spain for Facsa Playas de Castellón athletics club. He jumped a new personal best of 8.35 meters on June 23, 2024, placing him in sixth position in the overall world rankings for that year. [4]
From January 2025, he was cleared to compete internationally for Spain. [9] He won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships with a jump of 8.12 metres, just one centimetre behind gold medal winner Bozhidar Sarâboyukov. [10] [11] He finished fourth with a jump of 8.06 metres at the Diamond League event at the 2025 Golden Gala in Rome on 6 June 2025. [12] He was selected for the Spanish team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [13]
He is the nephew of fellow athlete Mabel Gay. [9] He got married in Spain after defecting from Cuba in 2022. [4]
