Yalennis Castillo
Castillo (left) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameYalennis Castillo Ramírez
Born (1986-05-21) 21 May 1986
OccupationJudoka
Sport
CountryCuba
SportJudo
Weight class–70 kg, –78 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesSilver (2008)
World Champ.7th (2007, 2014)
Pan American Champ. (2006, 2014)
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing ‍–‍78 kg
Pan American Games
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Guadalajara ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Toronto ‍–‍78 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2006 Buenos Aires ‍–‍70 kg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Guayaquil ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2008 Miami ‍–‍70 kg
Silver medal – second place 2010 San Salvador ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2012 Montreal ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Isla Margarita ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Isla Margarita Open
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Guadalajara ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Edmonton ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Havana ‍–‍78 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Havana ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Almaty ‍–‍78 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF3082
JudoInside.com38896
Updated on 30 May 2023.

Yalennis Castillo Ramírez (born 21 May 1986) is a Cuban judoka.[1] She was born in Moa, Holguín, Cuba on 21 May 1986. She practiced judo since she was a child.

Castillo first won medals in the 2005 Pan American Games and the Leonding Tournament in Austria. She won the Silver Medal in the 2006 World Cup by Teams and Bronze Medal in the 2007 World Cup in Vienna, Austria. That year 2007 she also participated in the World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Castillo's greatest result was in the 2008, where Castillo won a silver medal in the ‍–‍78 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics in a disputed match against the local contender Yang Xiuli. During 2008 she also won the Torneo de Cuenca in Ecuador, the Tre Torri in Italy, the Super Cup of the World, in Hamburg, Germany, and the Pan American Games in Miami, USA.

Castillo was intermittently in and out of international competition due to an injury and because she married Cuban baseball player Frank Camilo Morejón and had a child. By 2014 she had returned to competition. She participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There, she lost in the quarterfinals to Anamari Velenšek from Slovenia and then lost the bronze medal match through the repechage, finishing 5th.

References

  1. ↑ "Coverage of 2018 Winter Games".

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