Yargelis Savigne

Yargelis Savigne at the Memorial Van Damme 2010

Yargelis Savigne Herrera ( born November 13, 1984 in Niceto Pérez, Guantanamo Province) is a Cuban long and triple jumper.

Early in her career she focused on the long jump, in 2002 Central American -Caribbean Junior Champion and won the 2003 bronze medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo.

In 2005, she was also successful in the triple jump at competitions in Europe, and so she decided after her title win in the long jump with 6.88 m at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in a double start at the World Championships in Helsinki. With the silver medal in the triple jump and a fourth place finish in the long jump she scored her biggest international success to date. At its cracked in Helsinki personal best of 14.82 meters, it was the IAAF World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo approach to within one centimeter and won the bronze medal.

At the World Indoor Championships in Moscow in 2006, she was fifth in the triple jump and sixth in the long jump. In July, she improved her national triple jump record at 14.91 m, but had to cancel due to illness the season. In 2007 she won at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro gold in the triple jump and bronze in the long jump. Your biggest international success came Savigne at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. With a personal best jump of 15.28 meters she won the world title in the triple jump prior to the Russian Tatjana Lebedeva and the Greek Chrysopigi Devetzi.

Your outdoor title they added a victory at the IAAF World Athletics Final in 2007 and at the World Indoor Championships 2008 in Valencia, add the indoor title. At the Olympic Games in Beijing, she finished fifth in the triple jump competition. In 2009, she jumped at the World Championships she jumped 14.95 meters and defended her world title successfully. At the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010, she won with 14.86 m silver medal behind the Kazakh Olga Rypakowa. In 2012 she took part in the Olympic Games in London, where they reached 9th place with 14.12 m.

Yargelis Savigne is 1,65 m tall and 63 kg. She is romantically involved with the decathlete Yosley Azcuy and was trained at the Sports University of Havana to the PE teacher. End of July 2013, it announced the end of her career in the active competitive sports, but is still active as a triple jumper.