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15 august 2012 triple jump athletics 2 may 1990 josleidy ribalta

josleidy ribalta

josleidy ribalta alfonso -lrb- ; born 2 may 1990 -rrb- is a cuban track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump .
she has a personal best of 14.61 m for the event .
born in havana , she competed in the triple jump as a teenager , jumping 13.51 m in 2006 and improving to 13.72 m the following year .
in her first international competition , she took the silver medal behind fellow cuban dailenys alcántara at the 2007 world youth championships in athletics .
in the next season she set a new best of 13.87 m and was again runner-up to alcántara on the world stage , this time at the 2008 world junior championships in athletics .
in her final year as a junior -lrb- under-19 -rrb- athlete , she came fifth at the 2009 alba games and cleared fourteen metres for the first time -lrb- reaching 14.10 m in havana -rrb- .
ribalta came third at the 2010 barrientos memorial and was the runner-up at the `` olimpiada del deporte cubano '' with a personal best clearance of 14.14 m .
she also won a long jump bronze at the competition with a mark of 5.75 m .
her jump of 14.61 m in february 2011 ranked her eighth in the world that year and gained her qualification for the 2011 world championships in athletics , although she was replaced by yarianna martínez at the event .
she had her first win at the barrientos memorial that year .
at the 2012 iaaf centenary meet in havana she cleared 14.30 m to finish second , ahead of two-time world champion yargelis savigne .
she placed sixth at the new york diamond league meet and was later selected for the cuban olympic team .
