Alberto Díaz (born 8 December 1999) is a Cuban discus thrower. He set a 65.21 metres personal best for the discus throw in 2022. He competed at the 2022...
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Cuba competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's twenty-second appearance at the Summer Olympics...
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The discus throw (pronunciation), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight...
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Aída Peláez de Villa Urrutia (category Cuban editors)
sufragio femenino. Furthermore, she was editor of the periodicals La discusión, La Mujer (together with Domitila García de Coronado and Isabel Margarita...
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Cuba first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, and has sent athletes to compete in 22 out of 29 Summer Olympic Games overall, up to and including...
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newspapers in Cuba. Although the Cuban media is controlled by the Cuban People through the Cuban State apparatus, the national newspapers of Cuba are not directly...
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Alejo Carpentier (category Ambassadors of Cuba to France)
columnist and also edited musical and theatre reviews for La Discusión and El Heraldo de Cuba. In 1927, with the help of Jorge Mañach, Juan Marinello, Francisco...
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Jorge Fernández (athlete) (category Cuban male discus throwers)
born 2 October 1987 in Cárdenas, Matanzas) is a Cuban track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He won the gold medal in the event at the...
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Liiudys Beliser (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Beliser is a paralympic athlete from Cuba competing mainly in category F10–11 throwing events. Liudys was part of the Cuban team that competed in America in...
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an article in La Discusión on June 18, 1901. Tejera died on November 5, 1903. The two short-lived parties he had launched, the Cuban Socialist Party and...
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Liudys Masso (category Cuban female discus throwers)
from Cuba competing mainly in category F13 discus throw events. Liudys competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics winning the gold medal in the F13 discus with...
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Anaelys Fernández (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Anaelys Fernández (born December 15, 1979) is a retired discus thrower from Cuba. Her personal best throw is 62.09 metres, achieved on June 13, 2003, in...
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Frank Bicet (category Cuban male discus throwers)
Frank Bicet (born 13 November 1971) is a former discus thrower. Born in Cuba, he represented his country of birth and Spain internationally. He won the...
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Gustavo Ariosa (category Cuban male discus throwers)
Gustavo Ariosa is a paralympic athlete from Cuba competing mainly in category F54 throwing events. Gustavo competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics as a...
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This is a full list of all Cuban medalists, for more information about Cuba at the Summer Olympics click here...
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Yaime Pérez (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Pérez Tellez (sometimes "Yaimí", born 29 May 1991) is a Cuban athlete specialising in the discus throw. In 2022, she defected to the United States. She...
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a list of notable Cubans, ordered alphabetically by first name within each category. For Cuban-Americans please see List of Cuban Americans Ana de Armas...
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Juan Martínez Brito (category Cuban male discus throwers)
Brito (born May 17, 1958, in Guanabacoa, Havana) is a retired discus thrower from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics...
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The discus throw is one of four track and field throwing events held at the Summer Olympics. The men's discus throw has been present on the Olympic athletics...
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Yarelys Barrios (category Cuban female discus throwers)
July 12, 1983, in Pinar del Río) is a discus thrower from Cuba. She won the Diamond Race in the women's discus throw of the IAAF Diamond League both in...
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Noralvis de Las Heras (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Noralvis de las Heras is a Paralympian athlete from Cuba competing mainly in category F42-46 throwing events. Noralvis competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics...
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Maritza Martén (category Cuban female discus throwers)
maɾˈten]; born August 17, 1963, in Havana) is a retired discus thrower from Cuba who competed in the discus contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the gold...
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Manuel Benitez Valdés (category Cuban police officers)
soldier in the Cuban Liberation Army who helped purge the Spanish Empire from Cuba, and later a journalist for the Havana newspaper La Discusión. Before he...
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The following is a list of notable Cuban track and field athletes. Alberto Juantorena, basketball, track Aliecer Urrutia, triple jump Ana Fidelia Quirot...
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Yunio Lastre (category Cuban male discus throwers)
Lastre Hechavarría, born 26 October 1981, in Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban discus thrower. His personal best throw is 63.67 metres, achieved...
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Lisandra Rodriguez (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Lisandra Rodriguez (born 14 October 1986) is a Cuban female discus thrower, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships. "IAAF World...
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Denia Caballero (category Cuban female discus throwers)
Denia Caballero Ponce (born 13 January 1990) is a Cuban athlete who competes in the discus throw. She has a personal best of 70.65 metres for the event...
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The men's discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 5 and 7 August 2024. Still only 21 years old, Mykolas Alekna dominated...
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Lois Maikel Martínez (category Cuban male discus throwers)
Maikel Martínez González (born 3 June 1981 in Havana) is a male discus thrower from Cuba. In 2015, he changed his allegiance to Spain. His personal best...
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(born 1962), Major League Baseball infielder Mario Díaz (discus thrower) (born 1999), Cuban discus thrower Mario Díaz Martínez (born 1965), Spanish member...
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