Fulgencia Romay

Fulgencia Romay Martínez ( born January 16, 1944 in Havana ) is a Cuban former track and field athlete and two -time Olympic medalist.

Career

International Romay appeared for the first time at the Pan American Games in 1963 in São Paulo in appearance, where she won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay with Miguelina Cobián, Irene Martínez and Nereida Borges. She was also in the 100 - and 200 -meter run each fifth.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, she took in the relay along with Marlene Elejarde, Violeta Quesada and Miguelina Cobián second place behind the U.S. and before the Soviet team. The four sprinters thus became the first female Olympic medalists from Cuba. Romay started in Mexico and the 100 and 200 meters, but in this case did not qualify for the finals themselves. The following year she was at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in her hometown of Havana in the 100 -meter run second behind Cobián. The same result they achieved in the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1970 in Panama City, where she is also in the 200 -meter run won the bronze medal behind Cobián and Quesada.

1971 won Romay at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Kingston both 100 and 200 meters. In the same year she won at the Pan American Games in Cali silver medals in the 200 -meter run behind the Canadian Stephanie Berto and together with Carmen Valdés, Silvia Chivas and Marlene Elejarde in the relay. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 occupied Elejarde, Valdés, Romay and Chivas in third place behind the teams of the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR.

The same Cuban quartet won another silver medal at the Pan American Games in 1975 in Mexico City. For Romay it was the last great international success. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal she went still again with the season, but failed to qualify for the final.