Silvia Costa (athlete)
Appearance
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Full name | Silvia Costa Acosta-Martínez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | May 4, 1964 La Palma, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba | (age 60)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
[edit]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
[edit]Costa is married to Spanish citizen José Sanleandro.
International competitions
[edit]External links
[edit]- Silvia Costa at World Athletics
- Silvia Costa at Olympics.com
- Silvia Costa at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1964 births
- Living people
- Cuban female high jumpers
- Olympic athletes for Cuba
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
- Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Cuba
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Pinar del Río Province
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Cuba
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Cuba
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade
- Competitors at the 1994 Goodwill Games
- Medalists at the 1983 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics
- 20th-century Cuban people
- Competitors at the 1984 Friendship Games
- Competitors at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Competitors at the 1986 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Cuban Athletics Championships winners
- 20th-century Cuban sportswomen