Yarelys Barrios
Cuban discus thrower (born 1983)
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Yarelys Barrios Castañeda (also Yarelis Barrios Castañeda; born July 12, 1983) is a Cuban discus thrower.
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| Full name | Yarelis Barrios Castañeda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | July 12, 1983 Pinar del Río, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
She won the Diamond Race in the women's discus throw of the IAAF Diamond League both in 2010 and in 2011.
She won the 2012 Cuban National Championships with a personal best throw of 68.03 metres.[1]
Barrios finished the Olympic discus competition in 2008 in the second place, but was disqualified by the IOC on September 1, 2016, because of doping due to a sample reanalysis which resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance Acetazolamide.[2]
Barrios sold her Olympic silver medal on auction site, eBay, for unknown reasons, and it was bought for $11,000 (£9,000).[3]
Achievements
- Barrios originally finished 4th in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she moved up a position after Darya Pishchalnikova was disqualified for testing positive for the anabolic steroid oxandrolone.
