Yarisley Silva

Yarisley Silva at the 2012 Olympic Games

Yarisley Silva Rodríguez ( born June 1, 1987 in Pinar del Río ) is a Cuban pole vaulter.

2006 Silva won at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Cartagena with skipped 3.95 m silver medal behind your countrywoman Maryoris Sánchez. The following year she was at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro with 4.30m Third Brazilian Fabiana Murer and behind the US -American April Steiner. At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she could with 4.15 m, however, do not qualify for the finals after they had increased the Cuban record at the beginning of the year to 4.50 m.

The Central American and Caribbean Championships 2009 in Havana Silva won with 4.40 m and thus achieved a new championship record. In 2011 she improved the Cuban record initially to 4.66 m before it a further increase to 4.70 m was achieved in the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, which earned her fifth place. In the same year she won at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara with 4.75 m surprisingly before the reigning world champion Fabiana Murer. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 she won with 4.75 m silver medal.

At the World Athletics Championships 2013 in Moscow Silva won with 4.82 m skipped the bronze medal.