Osleidys Menéndez

Osleidys Menéndez Sáez ( born November 14, 1979 in Martí, Matanzas ) is a Cuban javelin thrower. She is Olympic champion and two-time world champion.

Menéndez threw at the age of 14 years the spear to a distance of nearly 54 m and in 1996 and 1998 two consecutive Junior World Champion. Your first start in major international championships she had at the World Athletics Championships 1997 in Athens, where they finished seventh. At the World Athletics Championships in 1999 in Seville, she was already Fourth, and at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, she won the bronze medal.

In Edmonton at the 2001 World Championships, she was the first time world champion; In the same year she worked with 71.54 meters to a world record.

After weak 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis, where she was fifth only, she won at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the gold medal with 71.53 meters, only 1 centimeter below her world record distance. This was the same time Olympic record.

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 they won the title again. With 71.70 m she put it on a world record.

Osleidys Menéndez has a competition weight of 80 kg at a height of 1.75 m.

Summer Olympic Games 2001 World Championships in Athletics 2005 World Championships in Athletics 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics 1999 Pan American Games 2003 Pan American Games 2007 Pan American Games 1997 World Championships in Athletics 1999 World Championships in Athletics Herma Bauma Inese Jaunzeme Ruth Fuchs Petra Felke Silke Renk Heli Rantanen Trine Hattestad Fatima Whitbread Xu Demei Steffi Nerius
625193
de