Osleidys Menéndez
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Osleidys Menéndez Sáez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 14, 1979 (age 45) Martí, Matanzas, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal bests | NACACR 71.70 m (2006) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Updated on 17 June 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Osleidys Menéndez Sáez (Spanish pronunciation: [osˈlejðis meˈnendes ˈsaes]; born November 14, 1979) is a retired Cuban track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. She was a World and Olympic Champion, and held the world record from 2001 to 2008. Her personal best of 71.70 m remains the North, Central American and Caribbean record and ranks her third on the overall list.
When winning the 2005 World Athletics Championships, Menéndez broke her own world record with a throw of 71.70 m. This record was broken by Olympic champion Barbora Špotáková in September 2008 with a throw of 72.28 m.
She won the Cuban National Games in 2004.[1]
Personal bests
[edit]- Javelin throw: 71.70 m –
Helsinki, 14 August 2005
International competitions
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Menendez and Betanzos star in high quality Cuban National Olympics, IAAF, 25 April 2004, retrieved 31 March 2012
- ^ Representing the Americas
External links
[edit]- Osleidys Menéndez at World Athletics
- Osleidys Menéndez at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Tilastopaja biography
- Picture of Osleidys Menéndez
|
|
|
World University Games champions in women's javelin throw | |
|---|---|
|
World U20 Champions in women's javelin throw | |
|---|---|
|
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Matanzas Province
- Cuban female javelin throwers
- Olympic athletes for Cuba
- Olympic gold medalists for Cuba
- Olympic bronze medalists for Cuba
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Cuba
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World record setters in athletics (track and field)
- Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Cuba
- World Athletics Championships winners
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Goodwill Games gold medalists in athletics
- 21st-century Cuban women
- 20th-century Cuban women
- Cuban Athletics Championships winners