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Yalennis Castillo

Cuban judoka (born 1986)

Yalennis Castillo

Castillo (left) at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Personal information

Full name

Yalennis Castillo Ramírez

Born

(1986-05-21) 21 May 1986 (age 37)

Occupation

Judoka

Sport

Country

Cuba

Sport

Judo

Weight class

‍–‍70 kg, ‍–‍78 kg

Achievements and titles

Olympic Games

(2008)

World Champ.

7th (2007, 2014)

Pan American Champ.

(2006, 2014)

Medal record

Women's judo

Representing Cuba
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	‍–‍78 kg
World Championships
	2006 Paris	Women's team
Pan American Games
	2011 Guadalajara	‍–‍78 kg
	2015 Toronto	‍–‍78 kg
Pan American Championships
	2006 Buenos Aires	‍–‍70 kg
	2014 Guayaquil	‍–‍78 kg
	2008 Miami	‍–‍70 kg
	2010 San Salvador	‍–‍78 kg
	2012 Montreal	‍–‍78 kg
	2004 Isla Margarita	‍–‍78 kg
	2004 Isla Margarita	Open
	2011 Guadalajara	‍–‍78 kg
	2015 Edmonton	‍–‍78 kg
	2016 Havana	‍–‍78 kg
IJF Grand Prix
	2014 Havana	‍–‍78 kg
	2016 Almaty	‍–‍78 kg

Profile at external databases

IJF

3082

JudoInside.com

38896

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 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.