Silvia Costa (athlete)
Cuban high jumper
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Full name | Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | May 4, 1964 (1964-05-04) (age 60) La Palma, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez (born May 4, 1964, in La Palma, Pinar del Río Province) is a former high jumper from Cuba.
Career
Costa is most known for winning medals at the 1985 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the 1993 World Championships in Athletics. She also has three medals from the Summer Universiade. Her personal best jump (set in 1989) is 2.04 m (6 ft 8+1⁄4 in), which makes her a member of the female two metres club and puts her ninth in the all-time performers list. She is also a three-time silver medallist at the Pan American Games.
Personal life
Costa is married to Spanish citizen José Sanleandro.
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Cuba | |||||
1978 | Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-17) | Xalapa, Mexico | 1st | High jump | 1.60m A |
5th | Long jump | 4.99m A | |||
2nd | 100 m hurdles | 15.76s A | |||
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships (U-20) | Xalapa, Mexico | 2nd | 4x100 m relay | 48.02s A | |
1983 | Universiade | Edmonton, Canada | 2nd | High jump | 1.98 m |
World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 10th | High jump | 1.84 m | |
Pan American Games | Caracas, Venezuela | 2nd | High jump | 1.88 m | |
1985 | World Indoor Games | Paris, France | 3rd | High jump | 1.90 m |
Universiade | Kobe, Japan | 1st | High jump | 2.01 m | |
1986 | Ibero-American Championships | Havana, Cuba | 1st | High jump | 1.84 m |
1987 | Pan American Games | Indianapolis, United States | 2nd | High jump | 1.92 m |
World Championships | Rome, Italy | 4th | High jump | 1.96 m | |
1988 | Ibero-American Championships | Mexico City, Mexico | 1st | High jump | 1.97 m A |
1989 | Universiade | Duisburg, Germany | 2nd | High jump | 1.91 m |
World Cup | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | High jump | 2.04 m | |
1990 | Central American and Caribbean Games | Mexico City, Mexico | 2nd | High jump | 1.82 m |
1992 | Ibero-American Championships | Seville, Spain | 2nd | High jump | 1.93 m |
Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 6th | High jump | 1.94 m | |
1993 | World Indoor Championships | Toronto, Canada | 7th | High jump | 1.94 m |
World Championships | Stuttgart, Germany | 2nd | High jump | 1.97 m | |
1995 | Pan American Games | Mar del Plata, Argentina | 2nd | High jump | 1.91 m |
World Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 24th (q) | High jump | 1.85 m |
External links
- Silvia Costa at World Athletics
- Silvia Costa at Olympics.com
- Silvia Costa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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World University Games champions in women's high jump
- 1959: Iolanda Balaș (ROU)
- 1961: Iolanda Balaș (ROU)
- 1963: Taisia Chenchik (URS)
- 1965: Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)
- 1967: Mami Takeda (JPN)
- 1970: Snežana Hrepevnik (YUG)
- 1973: Virginia Ioan (ROU)
- 1975: Galina Filatova (URS)
- 1977: Sara Simeoni (ITA)
- 1979: Andrea Mátay (HUN)
- 1981: Sara Simeoni (ITA)
- 1983: Tamara Bykova (URS)
- 1985: Silvia Costa (CUB)
- 1987: Svetlana Isaeva (BUL)
- 1989: Alina Astafei (ROU)
- 1991: Alison Inverarity (AUS)
- 1993: Tanya Hughes (USA)
- 1995: Viktoriya Fyodorova (RUS)
- 1997: Amy Acuff (USA)
- 1999: Monica Iagăr (ROU)
- 2001: Vita Palamar (UKR)
- 2003: Dóra Győrffy (HUN)
- 2005: Anna Chicherova (RUS)
- 2007: Marina Aitova (KAZ)
- 2009: Ariane Friedrich (GER)
- 2011: Brigetta Barrett (USA)
- 2013: Kamila Lićwinko (POL)
- 2015: Airinė Palšytė (LTU)
- 2017: Oksana Okunyeva (UKR)
- 2019: Yuliya Chumachenko (UKR)
- 2021: Rose Amoanimaa Yeboah (GHA)