 Nápoles in 2023 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 27 November 1998 Marianao, Cuba | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Cristian Atanay Nápoles (born 27 November 1998, in Marianao) is a Cuban athlete specialising in the triple jump.[2] He won the bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships in the triple jump event. Nápoles also represented his country at the 2017 World Championships finishing fourth and only missing the bronze by four centimetres. Additionally, he won the silver medal at the 2016 World U20 Championships and the gold at the 2015 World Youth Championships. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]
His personal best in the event is 17.38 metres (+0.8 m/s) set in Doha in 2019.[4]
International competitions
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Cuba
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| 2015 | World Youth Championships | Cali, Colombia | 1st | Triple jump | 16.13 m |
| 2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 2nd | Triple jump | 16.62 m |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 4th | Triple jump | 17.16 m |
| 2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 9th | Triple jump | 16.70 m |
| Central American and Caribbean Games | Barranquilla, Colombia | 1st | Triple jump | 17.34 m | |
| Ibero-American Championships | Trujillo, Peru | 1st | Triple jump | 16.81 m | |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 5th | Triple jump | 17.38 m |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 10th | Triple jump | 16.63 m |
| 2023 | ALBA Games | Caracas, Venezuela | 1st | Triple jump | 17.23 m |
| Central American and Caribbean Games | San Salvador, El Salvador | 2nd | Triple jump | 17.11 m | |
| World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | Triple jump | 17.40 m | |
| Pan American Games | Santiago, Chile | 3rd | Triple jump | 16.66 m | |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 13th | Triple jump | 15.98 m |
References
- ^ "2018 CAC Games bio". Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 7 August 2018.
- ^ Cristian Nápoles at World Athletics
- ^ "Athletics NAPOLES Cristian". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ^ "All-Athletics profile". Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
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