Yanelis Silva Zamora. Cuban disabled athlete who has been Parapan American Table Tennis Champion . Vice-president of the Cuban Association of Limited Motor Physicians ( ACLIFIM ) in Holguín and Cuban representative in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games , where she ranked 6th.
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 2 Sports career
- 1 Sports results
- 3 Events
- 1 Nationals
- 2 International
- 4 Awards and recognitions
- 5 References
- 6 See also
- 7 Sources
Biographical synthesis
He was born in the Holguin municipality of Calixto García , on September 22 , 1976 . At 17 she suffers an unfortunate accident that forces her to use a wheelchair for life.
Sports career
During her rehabilitation process in a hospital in the capital, she meets a group of disabled young people who practiced basketball on wheelchairs, who convince her to start practicing this sport . Later he begins to practice table tennis , a discipline in which he has obtained relevant results at the national and international level.
Sports results
In the V Parapan American Games 2015 , held in Toronto , Canada , he obtained a bronze medal in the TT3 category [1] , [2] .
At the VI Parapan American Games in Lima 2019 , she reached a bronze medal in the TT2-3 category in an unprecedented triumph against the Brazilian Thais Fraga Severo , who had beaten her three times before [3] .
Events
Nationals
| Event | Place | Sport | Year | Outcome |
| National Championship | – | Table tennis | 1997 | Bronze medal |
| National Championship | – | Table tennis | 1998 | Bronze medal |
| National Championship for the disabled | – | Table tennis | 1999- 2010 | Gold medal |
| Remedies Cup | Sancti Spíritus | Table tennis | 1999-2010 | Gold medal |
International
| Event | country | Sport | Year | Outcome |
| Parapan American Championship | Mexico | Table tennis | 1999 | Bronze medal, Silver for team |
| Pan American Championship | Argentina | Table tennis | 2001 | 2 gold medals |
| Pan American Championship | Brazil | Table tennis | 2003 | 2 gold medals |
| Paralympic Games | Athens , Greece | Table tennis | 2004 | Eighth place |
| Parapan American Games | Rio de Janeiro , Brazil | Table tennis | 2007 | Gold medal |
| Paralympic Games | Beijing , China | Table tennis | 2008 | Sixth place |
| IV Parapan American Games | Guadalajara , Mexico | Table tennis | 2011 | Gold medal |
| 5th Parapan American Games | Toronto , Canada | Table tennis | 2015 | Bronze medal |
| 5th Parapan American Games | Lima , Peru | Table tennis | 2019 | Bronze medal |
In an interview with him in 2004, he expressed:
“… sport redeemed my existence, it has allowed me to be useful, live intensely and feel great emotions .”
Awards and recognitions
- Most outstanding disabled athlete of the year 2008 in Holguín
- Holguín Shield, 2011
