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In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is Montalvo and the second or maternal family name is
Amaro .
Niurka Montalvo Amaro (born June 4, 1968, in Havana ) is a former Cuban and Spanish athlete who specialised in the long jump and triple jump events. Her greatest achievement came in 1999 , when she became world champion with a personal best jump of 7.06 metres. She was the autonomous secretary of sport for the Autonomous government of Valencia .
Early life [ edit ]
She began her international career with a medal at the 1986 Pan American Junior Championships , taking the bronze in the long jump.[1] Senior medals soon followed: at the Central American and Caribbean Championships she won the long jump gold at the 1987 edition, and another gold came at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games .
Her first appearance at global level came at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships , where she finished fifth in the long jump. She demonstrated further skills when she scored a double gold in the long jump and triple jump events at both the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics and the 1993 Central American and Caribbean Games . That year she went on to become the Summer Universiade champion in the triple jump and just missed out on the medals with a fourth-place finish at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics . She represented America at the 1994 IAAF World Cup and won the long jump silver behind Inessa Kravets with a best mark of 6.70 m.[2]
The 1995 season was a breakthrough for Montalvo as she won triple jump silver and long jump at the 1995 Pan American Games before going on to win her first world medal – a jump of 6.86 m brought her a silver medal behind Fiona May in the long jump final at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics . She had mixed fortunes in triple jump that year, finishing sixth at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships , but fifteenth in the qualifiers of the outdoor championships.
The few years following her world silver she focused solely on the long jump, but to limited success: she failed to make it out of the qualifying round at either the 1996 Summer Olympics or the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a fifth place at the 1998 IAAF Grand Prix Final was a modest highlight to a year.
Transfer to Spain [ edit ]
In 1999 she acquired Spanish citizenship by marriage, something which stirred a great amount of controversy. The move brought renewed efforts on the world stage as she became the world champion in the long jump with a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships in Athletics . The Cuban Athletics Federation blocked her participation in the 2000 Summer Olympics , and in addition, she was reportedly included on a list of possible assassination targets for ETA .[3]
Montalvo refused to let this disrupt her athletics career and she won a series of bronze medals after this, starting with the 2000 IAAF Grand Prix Final and then at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 2001 World Championships in Athletics . More medals came at regional competitions, with a gold at the 2004 Ibero-American Championships and a silver behind her 1995 World Championships adversary, Fiona May, at the 2005 Mediterranean Games .
She finished seventh in the long jump final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg at the age of 38.
Personal Bests [ edit ]
International competitions [ edit ]
Year
Competition
Venue
Position
Event
Notes
Representing Cuba
1986
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20)
Mexico City , Mexico
2nd
100 m hurdles
14.20 A
1st
Long jump
6.29 m A
World Junior Championships
Athens , Greece
11th (sf )
100 m hurdles
14.28 (+1.1 m/s)
14th (q )
Long jump
5.86 m
Ibero-American Championships
Havana , Cuba
2nd
Long jump
6.11 m (+1.6 m/s)
1987
Central American and Caribbean Championships
Caracas, Venezuela
3rd
4 × 100 m relay
47.01
1988
Ibero-American Championships
Mexico City , Mexico
2nd
Long jump
6.55 m A
1990
Central American and Caribbean Games
Mexico City, Mexico
1st
Long jump
6.58 m
1991
World Indoor Championships
Seville, Spain
5th
Long jump
6.68 m
Pan American Games
Havana, Cuba
10th
Long jump
6.04 m
1992
Ibero-American Championships
Seville , Spain
1st
Long jump
6.51 m w (+2.2 m/s)
1st
Triple jump
13.60 m (+1.1 m/s)
1993
Universiade
Buffalo, United States
1st
Long jump
14.16 m (w )
World Championships
Stuttgart , Germany
4th
Triple jump
14.22 m (0.2 m/s)
Central American and Caribbean Games
Ponce, Puerto Rico
1st
Long jump
6.37 m
1st
Triple jump
13.57 m
1994
Goodwill Games
St. Petersburg, Russia
5th
Triple jump
13.54 m
1995
World Indoor Championships
Barcelona , Spain
6th
Triple jump
14.04 m
Pan American Games
Mar del Plata, Argentina
1st
Long jump
6.89 m
2nd
Triple jump
13.90 m (w )
World Championships
Gothenburg , Sweden
2nd
Long jump
6.86 m (0.5 m/s)
15th (q )
Triple jump
11.40 m (1.1 m/s)
1996
Olympic Games
Atlanta , United States
5th (q )
Long jump
6.48 m (-0.8 m/s)
Representing Spain
1999
World Championships
Seville , Spain
1st
Long jump
7.06 m NR (-0.1 m/s)
2001
World Championships
Edmonton , Canada
3rd
Long jump
6.88 m w (2.1 m/s)
Goodwill Games
Brisbane, Australia
5th
Long jump
6.78 m
References [ edit ]
^ Turnbull, Simon (2001-09-30). Long jumper in hit-list shock [dead link ] . The Independent . Retrieved on 2010-03-16.
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Niurka_Montalvo&oldid=1222104612 "
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