Yandro Quintana

Yandro Miguel Quintana Ribalta ( born November 30, 1980 in Ciego de Ávila ) is a former Cuban wrestler. He was 2004 Olympic gold medalist in free style at featherweight.

Career

Yandro Quintana began at the age of 8 years in 1988 with the rings. After first national success, he was delegated to the Cuban top club Cerro Pelado Cuba Havana and trained there by Filiberto Delgado. In the Cuban national team, nor was added Arturo Yanez as a coach. The 1.62 meter tall athlete ranking bantamweight and featherweight and only in free style. He studied in Havana sports.

The first appearance of Yandro Quintana at an international championship took place in 1998 at the World Youth Games in Moscow. He arrived there in the weight class up to 42 kg of body weight on the 6th Place. A year later he won at the Junior World Cup in Sydney with a third place in the bantamweight already his first medal.

Then from 2000 he launched until 2008 regularly in almost all major international championships and was able to reap many victories and medal winnings. His first victory succeeded in 2000, when he (Colombia ) was in Cali Pan-American champion bantamweight before the American Eric S. Guerrero and the Canadian Guivi Sissaouri. But to a use in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, he was not.

The title of the Pan-American champion, he defended in 2001 in Santo Domingo. He won there again in the bantamweight title before Kernizan Arnel de Jesus from Puerto Rico and Chris Feeger from the United States. At the World Championships this year in Sofia, he came up with three wins in the quarter-finals where he was defeated by the Mongols, but Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar and thus finished 7th.

In 2002, Pan-American champion Yandro Quintana in Maracaibo again. He won the featherweight against Saeed Azarbayjani from Canada and Danny Felix of the United States. In the 2002 World Cup in Tehran he managed only one victory over Ryosuke Ota from Japan. He thus reached only the 12th Place. In 2003, he won then in Santo Domingo also at the Pan American Games in the featherweight before Guivi Sissaouri and Eric S. Guerrero. Then Shortly after he succeeded in New York, the first medal win at the World Cup. After victories over such prestigious opponents like Anatoli Guidea from Bulgaria, Vasyl Fodoryschyn from Ukraine, Tevfik Odabasi from Turkey and Song Jae- Myung of South Korea, he only lost in the final against Arif Abdullayev from Azerbaijan with 1:2 rounds ( 3:4 techn. dots).

2004 won Yandro Quintana in Guatemala City again at the Pan American Championships in the featherweight before Clint Musser from the United States and Jonathan Rodriguez from Puerto Rico. At the peak of his career then were the Olympic Games this year in Athens. With wins over Ivan Welikow Djosew from Bulgaria, Sushil Kumar from India, Dawid Pogosjan from Georgia, Vasyl Fedoryschyn and Masoud Mostafa Jokar from Iran, he won the Olympic gold medal in superior style.

At the World Championship 2005 in Budapest failed Yandro Quintana to be world champion for the first time. He defeated there though Kenichi Yumoto of Japan, Tevfik Odabasi, Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar and Morad Mohammadi from Iran, but was defeated in the final battle against Alan Dudayev from Russia with 1:2 rounds ( 4:5 techn. Dots) and had as early as 2003 be content with the runners-up title. In the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou, he was defeated in the third round of the new Russian star Mawlet Batirow, where his defeat with 0:2 and 0:3 rounds techn. Points was pretty clear difference from it and only reached the 9th Place.

In 2007 Yandro Quintana won in Rio de Janeiro at the Pan American games again at featherweight with a win over the vice-champion of 2006 Mike Zadick from the United States. He has since been with six victories in American Pan-American Championships and Pan Play sole record owner. At the 2007 World Championships he was not at the start.

In 2008, he had to qualify first for the Olympics this year in Beijing. He managed this impressively by winning the qualifying tournament in Martigny / Switzerland, where he won from Azerbaijan and Morad Mohammadi featherweight before Zelimkhan Chusseinow. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, he won his first fight in over Qin He from China, but then lost his next fight back against Mawlet Batirow, but against which he could win a round this time. Since Batirow reached the final, Yandro Quintana got the chance to be able to continue to fight in the repechage. He was defeated here, however, against Zelimkhan Chusseinow 0-2 rounds. He and the Cuban ring camp, however, was of the opinion that he was at a disadvantage in this fight, which led to his defeat.

In December 2008 he was on Cuban television announced that he would end his career because of a wrestler persistent shoulder injury. Later, he began a new career as a coach.

International success

Note: Bantamweight until 2001-58 kg since 2002 up to 55 kg body weight, spring weight, 63 kg to 2001, since 2002 up to 60 kg body weight

Swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Journal The Ringer,
• Websites of the U.S., Iranian, Canadian, Russian and Swedish wrestler Association