The once-star hammer fighter Yipsi Moreno was released this Saturday from her duties as commissioner of athletics in Cuba, according to a official statement of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (Inder).
The note, published on the digital site Jit, informs that the legendary athlete from Camagüey, Olympic champion and three-time world champion, has been released “in accordance with her personal will”, after almost four years in the commissioner’s role.
“We recognize the effort he made in his time at the head of athletics,” says the brief statement, in which they also announced that the position of commissioner will be held by Rolando Carlos Charró Estrada, who served as director of Inder in the eastern province. from Guantanamo.
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Yipsi Moreno has been released from her position fulfilling a personal request. #Cuba #athletics
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Yipsi’s release was an open secret, especially after the dismal results at the recent World Championship in Oregon, in the United States. In said event, the Antillean army left without medals for the first time in history and lost two athletes (Yislena Ballar and Yaimé Pérez) who decided to leave the delegation.
Yipsi Moreno was officially appointed as national athletics commissioner in August 2018. At that time, the Camagüeyan replaced Agustín Abril, who took office in January 2017 and accompanied her in a training period that ended after the Central American Games and the Caribbean of Barranquilla, Colombia.
Under his mandate, Cuba finished among the first 14 countries of the Doha World Cup in 2019, with a balance of one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. That same year, at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, athletics was fifth after contributing five titles, two subtitles and three bronzes to the national pavilion.
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After the almost general stoppage in 2020 due to the pandemic, Cuban athletics returned to action in 2021 with three metals at the Tokyo Olympics. Silver for Juan Miguel Echevarría and bronzes for Maykel Massó and Yaimé Pérez marked the Cuban performance in the Japanese city, where the track and field team finished in 27th place.
Also in 2021, the Island team finished in 15th place at the U-20 World Cup held in Nairobi, Kenya, where they won a crown and two bronzes. Already this year, Cuba won a gold medal at the Indoor World Cup in Belgrade, in Serbia.
However, his exchanges of statements with various athletes and the constant casualties of the national team dented Yipsi’s management, under whose mandate the triple jumpers Jordan Díaz, Andy Díaz and Christian Napoles, the sprinters Reyner Mena and Yoandy Lescay, the Hurdler Roger Iribarne, javelin thrower Yulenmis Aguilar, pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, decathlonist Leonel Suárez and jumper Juan Miguel Echevarría.
