The first 4 finishers were within 0.13 of a second and closely crowded in each other's paths at the very end, with bronze medalist Kovacs sprawling across the line, blocking out the path of 4th-place finisher Maria Mutola who may have won the race otherwise. Going in as favorite she settled for a silver medal at the 1991 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, narrowly losing to Nurutdinova 1:57.50 to 1:57.55. This lone defeat bumped her down the 3rd in the Track and Field News Magazine 1990 800 metre rankings, as it was her only meeting with the 2 women in 1990, after having been ranked 1st in both 19. Quirot was unbeaten at the 800 metres for almost three years, from her fourth place at the 1987 Worlds, to the Zurich Grand Prix in August 1990, when she was third behind the East German pair of Wodars and Christine Wachtel. She won the 400 m in 50.38 and the 800 m in 1:57.42, narrowly ahead of the Soviet Union's Liliya Nurutdinova, who ran 1:57.52. In 1990, she again achieved a 400m, 800 m double, this time at the Goodwill Games in Seattle. She also won the 400 m, after original winner Marie-Jose Perec was disqualified for running out of her lane. In a race that was fast from the start, thanks to the front running of World and Olympic champion Wodars, Quirot won in 1:54.44, to move to third on the world all-time list behind world record holder Jarmila Kratochvilova and 1980 Olympic champion Nadezhda Olizarenko. The race was won by East Germany's Sigrun Wodars in 1:55.32.Īt the 1989 IAAF World Cup in Barcelona, Quirot reached her peak at 800 metres. Later that year at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, she improved her 800 m best 1:55.84, to finish fourth in a high quality final. In the 400 m, she ran 50.27 to defeat Canada's Jillian Richardson, while in the 800 m she defeated Delisa Walton-Floyd of the USA in 1:59.06. Four years later at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, she won both the 400 m and 800 m. In 1983, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the Pan American Games in Caracus, running 51.83. For further information, click here.Quirot was born in Palma Soriano, Cuba. She will also be one of 1,400 athletes who compete at the World Championships in Doha between 22-31 October. Her outstanding sporting career is not the only reason for which I praise her, but also because of how she overcame the accident she had and was back on the track, ready to compete and win again.Ĭastillo will compete at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games which take place between 7-15 August. Ana Fidelia Quirot – two-time Olympic medallist and two-time 800m world champion. I admire the way in which he was able to fight for his ideals.ģ. I am a Christian and he is above all in my consideration. Here are the three heroes that help inspire her to achieve her goals. The 28-year-old multiple world and Paralympic champion is set to line up at next month’s Parapan Games before then preparing for the defence of three spring world titles at October’s IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar.īack training and competing in 2015 after the birth of her son Gabriel, Castillo is confident she will be back to her best. With the 2015 Parapan American Games opening in Toronto, Canada, this week, today’s #SuperheroSunday comes from Cuba’s reigning 100m T46 champion Yunidis Castillo.
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