Yunidis Castillo Castillo. Cuban athlete, considered a sports personality in the area of the disabled , three-time Paralympic champion, Parapan American, medalist in the World Cup . Member of the Cuban Association of Physically-Motor Limited ( ACLIFIM ) and this disability classification T-46 (amputee (a) of an upper limb). Glory of Cuban sports , known as “The daughter of the wind.”
Summary
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- 1 Biographical synthesis
- 1 Sports career
- 2 Awards and Recognitions
- 3 References
- 4 Sources
Biographical synthesis
Born on June 6 of the year 1987 in Santiago de Cuba , Cuba , daughter of Laureano Castillo and Elena Castillo, born in the town of Sweet Potato (Santiago de Cuba) , municipality of Santiago de Cuba and resides in Building 19-A, Apt 10 Micro 2, Cast Abel Santamaría Cuadrado , Santiago de Cuba.
He began his first studies in 1992 at the elementary school of the Los Pinos Salado Popular Council (Santiago de Cuba) , later he went to the Antonio Robert school in the town of Boniato, in the Santiago de Cuba municipality, in the province of the same name. Being the second disabled athlete in Cuba to enter a High Performance Sports Center, the ESPA Israel Reyes Zayas.
Sports career
Due to his physical qualities and mental development, at the age of eight he leans towards the practice of Athletics , with the first coach Jorge Alberto Gonce Ávila.
At the age of 10 he joined the Judo practice . In one of the incursions to the National Event of National School Games , in the province of Holguín , in a tragic accident he lost his left ear and his right upper limb and his arm was amputated at the middle level, on April 11 , 1998 .
In 2000 , when he was thirteen years old, after a long recovery process, he rejoined the practice of sport as a disabled athlete again with coach Jorge Gonce Ávila and due to the sports results shown, they endorsed the entrance to the then Provincial ESPA of Santiago de Cuba.
In 2002 , she participated in the II National Paralympic for disabled athletes, held in Santiago de Cuba, with the Nigerian national team , where she was the only Cuban athlete to dominate events before foreign visitors, with only fifteen years of age.
He has participated in national events called where he specializes in speed events, he also participates in the remaining Paralympics held from that same year, contributing a large number of titles to the province where he was born and trained as a world-class athlete.
In 2003, she participated in the first international event, the Parapan American in Santa Fe , Argentina , where she obtained a gold medal in the Long Jump and 200 meter flat events and classified for the next Paralympic Games . Once the Pan American event becomes part of the national team which is prepared in order to participate in the concluded Paralympic Games of Athens 2004 .
Yunidis Castillo wins the final of the 100 meters (T 46) of the World Championship
At the end of 2003 , the preparation intensified after having obtained the Olympic ticket, at the Pan-American Stadium , Havana , Cuba , the main training venue for the great figures of Cuban athletics, this time under the tutelage of two coaches Miriam Ferrer and Luis Bueno, for belonging to different areas of speed and jumps, respectively.
In 2004, she participated in the XX Paralympic Games in Athens , Greece, where she managed to place herself among the top 12 in the world in the long jump specialty. In 2005 he participated, for the first time in Brazil , in an event by invitation held for leading figures worldwide.
In 2006 he participated in the World Championship held in Holland , where he set two world records in the events of 100 meters and 200 meters.
In the year 2007 participates in the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil qualifying for the Paralympics in the 2008 in Beijing . This year he became a double Olympic gold medalist, contributing almost 40% of the gold titles achieved to the Cuban delegation.
In 2009 participates again in the invitational tournament, or as it was called from that year as a Grand Prix in Brazil , repeating the performance in the month of October of 2010 in both cases with two gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter events.
The 24 of January of 2011 , despite not found in the best imposed fitness brand for the event 200 meters (T 46) at the World Athletics Championships for the blind, visually impaired and limited physical engines made in Christchurch , New Zealand , falling just 14 hundredths from their own world mark of 24.72 seconds. [1] . Almost immediately, he won again in the same event in the 100 meters (T 46), stopping the timer in 12.20 seconds, which constituted another new record for the event, remaining very close to his own absolute mark, obtained in Beijing [2 ] .
From the March 13 on March 16 of 2011 Seventh National Paralympics in Havana , reached gold medal in 100m and 200m with 24.72 in the 200m and 13.07 in 100m.
In April 2011, he reached a gold medal at the World Cup in New Zealand in the 100m events with a time of 12.20 s, 200 with 24.86 s, and for the first time he ventured into the 400 meter dash where he also obtained the triumph.
On May 27, he won two gold medals at the Manchester World Cup in Great Britain , which was the one that contributed the most points (eight points) to the America team , which came in second place. It achieved a world record in its category in the 200m sprint event, lowering its previous world record achieved in Beijing 2008 by 24 hundredths . This time he managed to stop the timers in 24.48 seconds. Hours before, he had reached the Gold medal with a record of 12.19 seconds in 100 meters.
On Saturday 1 of September of 2012 won the gold medal in the 200m freestyle world record T46 category of the XIV Paralympic Games in London 2012 , recorded 24.45 seconds, one hundredth unless managed by it in the IV Games Parapan American Games of Guadalajara 2011 [3] .
Yunidis sets record with time of 11.95
The 4 of September of 2012 qualifies for the final of the 100 meters implanting record global, pan – American and national levels in the T46 category at the XIV Paralympic Games in London 2012 , with a record of 11.95 seconds [4] .
Wednesday 5 of September of 2012 brought the seventh title to Cuba, to winning the gold medal in the 100 meters, category T46, on the sixth day of the XIV Paralympics London 2012 with a time of 12.01 [5] .
On September 8 , she won her third gold medal, the latter in the 400 meter dash, category T46, breaking a record with a time of 55.72 seconds at the XIV London 2012 Paralympic Games , with this result becoming the Cuban athlete with more Paralympic titles.
2013
The 18 of February of 2013 with a time of 26.79 seconds, won the gold in the 200 meters of the National Paralimpics VIII that developed in Las Tunas .
On July 22 in Lyon , France , he contributed the third title for Cuba by winning with a time of 56.58 seconds in the 400 meters T46 (affected upper limb) during the third date of the World Athletics Championships for the disabled affiliated with the International Paralympic Committee [6] . Later he dominated in 100 and 200 meters to win gold in both distances, leading the Cuban delegation that attended this event that ended on July 27 , 2013 [7] .
2015
After a time away from the tracks due to her motherhood, with only four months of training, on August 12 of this year, at the V Parapan American Games based in Toronto , Canada , she obtained the gold medal in the 100 meters T46, in competition held on the track at York Stadium , with a time of 12.60 seconds [8] .
On October 24 at the World Championships in Athletics for the Disabled in Doha , Qatar . She reappears in the long jump competition with excellent results in the F47 class (affected upper limbs) with a record of 5.46 meters, reaching the silver medal, only preceded by the Australian Carlee Beatie (5.75). Yunidis, who had dedicated himself only to the track where he holds the world championships of 100, 200 and 400 m T47, had that great result despite not training in that modality, from which he had given up since the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens due to the union of categories that diminished its possibilities [9] . On October 26reaches a silver medal in the 400 m T 47 (affected upper limbs), timing 59.79 seconds in the 400 m T47, far from his world record of 55.72 imposed at the London’12 Paralympic Games. After her motherhood, she has not yet recovered her optimal form [10] . On October 28, in the same scenario, he obtained a gold medal 200 m T47 (affected upper limb) with 25.43 seconds [11] . On October 29 Yunidis entered first in the third qualifying heat of the 100 meters T47 (affected upper limbs) with a personal best of the year of 12.40 seconds, moving on to the final that took place the following day, October 30, a race that he could not finish, as he suffered an injury during the same that caused a grade two tear in the quadriceps of his left leg [12] , [13] .
Awards and honours
- Selected Best Athlete of the Year in Cuba during 2005 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 .
- Recognition as an example of the will and sacrifice of Cuban women, year 2009 .
- She was a delegate to the XVII World Festival of Youth and Students held in South Africa in December 2010 .
- Chosen as the best athlete in sports for the disabled of the year 2011 in Cuba[14] .
- Selected as the athlete of the year [[2012] + in Cuba in sports for the disabled [15].
- For sports results was awarded the 19 of November of 2012 with the Barbados Martyrs Medal at the Coliseum Ciudad Deportiva [16].
- She is chosen as the 2012 athlete of the year in Cuba, in Sports for the Disabled.
- Selected as the best female athlete in Cuba in 2013 in Sports for the disabled
