Miguelina Cobián

Miguelina Cobián Hechavarria ( born December 19, 1941 in Santiago de Cuba ) is a Cuban former track athlete and was one of the most successful sprinters of the 1960s.

Career

At the Pan American Games in 1963 in São Paulo Cobián won silver medals in the 100 -meter run, the 200 -meter run and in the 4 x 100 meters relay together with Marcia Garbey, Violeta Quesada and Cristina Hechevarría. The following year she was over 100 meters at the Olympic Games in Tokyo Fifth, reaching over 200 meters the semifinal round. At the Pan American Games in Winnipeg in 1967 they won the season with Fulgencia Romay, Irene Martínez and Nereida Borges, repeated her second place in the 100 meters and was third in the 200 -meter run.

Your most significant success came Cobián at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, when she and Violeta Quesada, Marlene Elejarde and Fulgencia Romay won the silver medal behind the U.S. and before the Soviet team in the season. The four were the first female Olympic medalist from Cuba. They also finished third in 100 - meter race in eighth place, but missed in the 200 -meter run again the final.

Her other successes include three victories in the 100 -meter run at Central American and Caribbean Games (1962 in Kingston, 1966 in San Juan and in 1970 in Panama City ), and a 200 meter (1970). The Central American and Caribbean Championships, she won in 1967 in Xalapa and 1969 in Havana in the 200 -meter run and 1969 in the 100 -meter run. In Universiade she won in 1963 in Porto Alegre over both distances each bronze and silver in 1965 in Budapest.

Miguelina Cobián is 1,70 m tall, weighed to their active 63 kg and was nicknamed La Gacela Oriental. Your bests were 11.41 seconds in the 100 meters and 23.39 seconds over 200 meters, both raced in 1968 in Mexico City.