Yarisley Silva

Yarisley Silva

Personal information
Full name	Yarisley Silva Rodríguez
Born	(1987-06-01) 1 June 1987 (age 37) San Luis, Pinar del Río, Cuba
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Athletics
Event	Pole vault
Coached by	Alexander Navas
Achievements and titles
Personal best	4.91 m
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 1 0 World Championships 1 0 2 World Indoor Championships 1 0 0 Pan American Games 3 0 1 Total 5 1 3 Olympic Games 2012 London Pole vault World Championships 2015 Beijing Pole vault 2013 Moscow Pole vault 2017 London Pole vault World Indoor Championships 2014 Sopot Pole vault Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Pole vault 2015 Toronto Pole vault 2019 Lima Pole vault 2007 Rio de Janeiro Pole vault
Updated on 7 January 2015

Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born 1 June 1987) is a Cuban pole vaulter.^[1] She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event.

Silva became the first Cuban woman to reach a world class standard in the pole vault. Her personal bests of 4.90 m (16 ft 3⁄4 in) outdoors and 4.78 m (15 ft 8 in) indoors are the Cuban and Central American and Caribbean records for the event.

She emerged at the regional level with a silver medal at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, and a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. She then won gold medals at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and the 2011 Pan American Games.

Silva represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics and came fifth at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics.