With no major competitions scheduled for 2010, he made his debut on the Diamond League circuit, coming fifth at the Doha meeting. He won gold medals at the 2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics both the hurdles and relay events. That July in Havana he improved his 400 m hurdles best by six tenths of a second, breaking the Cuban record held by Yacnier Luis with a run of 48.29 seconds. Two weeks later, the 20-year-old went even faster with a time of 48.21 seconds. In the first half of 2011 he won the Barrientos Memorial and two European meets in Cottbus and Celle Ligure. Cisneros represented Cuba in the hurdles at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, but was some way off his best form and finished last in his semi-final with a run of 50.10 seconds. In spite of this modest season, the 2011 Pan American Games in October in Guadalajara saw Cisneros reach a new career peak. He won his hurdles heat with a time of 48.99 seconds – his fastest run away from Cuban soil. Although he entered the competition with a hope of reaching the top three, he dominated the final with a national and Pan American Games record run of 47.99 seconds, finishing almost a second ahead of the minor medalists Isa Phillips and Félix Sánchez. The time made him the fifth fastest hurdler in the world that year. He ended the competition with a second victory in the 4×400 m relay and the time of 2:59.43 minutes set by a team of Noel Ruíz, Yoandri Betanzos, Cisneros and Collazo was the fastest by a Cuban quartet since the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, where the country won Olympic silver.