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Full name | Suslaidy Girat Rivero | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Cuban | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 19 August 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Women's Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Suslaidy Girat Rivero [a] (born 19 August 1987) is a Cuban female deaf track and field athlete. [1] She has competed at the Deaflympics in 2009, 2013 and in 2017 representing Cuba. Suslaidy Girat has won 8 medals in the Deaflympics including 6 gold medals and set the landmark for becoming the finest ever Cuban to have competed at the Deaflympics. [2]
In the 2013 Summer Deaflympics, she broke the world record in the 100m individual competition for the deaf (women) with a timing of 11.71 seconds.
She also holds some unique records in Deaflympics for women in athletics such as 100m (11.71 seconds), long jump (6.13 seconds), triple jump (13.60 seconds). [3] [4]