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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Castillo and the second or maternal family name is Ramírez.

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 2004 Pan American Championships and the Leonding Tournament in Austria. She won the silver medal in the women's team event of the 2006 World Team Championships and a bronze medal in the 2007 World Cup in Vienna, Austria. That year she also participated in the 2007 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 2008 Pan American Championships in Miami, USA.

Castillo was intermittently in and out of international competition due to an injury and because she married Cuban baseball player Frank 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".

External links

Media related to Yalennis Castillo at Wikimedia Commons


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