Hello everyone! This is my sports bra from the World Cup final in Beijing. The money collected will be for helping the family of the girl Kira Grünberg, the pole vaulter who was injured when training and now is paraplegic. It’s my little help for her treatment and that, in…
A women’s pole vault campaign which was meandering along with little plotline has suddenly exploded into life over the past few weeks thanks to Yarisley Silva. The world indoor champion, who had made an unspectacular start to the season, suddenly catapulted to the top of the world lists when securing…
DESCRIBING Yarisley Silva (Pinar del Río, June 1, 1987) as the best female pole-vaulter of the 2013 season is no exaggeration, although she was unable to take top honors in the 14th Moscow World Championship or the year’s Diamond League competition. Her performance does, however, provide more than enough evidence…
Cuban pole vaulter Yarisley Silva, runner-up at the London Olympics, said here that she wants to win the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Poland in March 2014. Silva said Monday that she still has to improve her marks and to surpass the five-metre height, reports Xinhua. “I still have to…
Cuba’s Yarisley Silva won today a silver medal in the pole vault event at the athletic meet in the Czech city of Ostrava where Russian Yelena Isinbayeva finished first. Silva, 26, was able to fly over the 4.72 meter-mark, but it was not enough to beat favourite Isinbayeva who jumped…
Prague, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuban athletes Yarisley Silva, Lazaro Borges and Guillermo Martinez will attend the 52nd edition of the Golden Spike, to be held in Ostrava, Czech Republic with the objective of reaffirming themselves in the global elite in their respective disciplines. Silva, silver medalist at the Olympic…
With Lazaro Borges’ world silver in 2011 and her Olympic silver, Cuba has emerged a top contender in the Pole Vault, an area previously considered weaker on the Island among the field events. “The talent is there; we just need the resources and the opportunities,” said Silva. “Lazaro and I…
Yarisley Silva is still savouring her Olympic silver, the best performance by a Cuban athlete at the London Olympics, but she is already looking forward to new exciting challenges in 2013. With that in mind, the 25-year-old trains Monday to Friday at Havana’s Estadio Panamericano under the guidance of her…
Havana, Cuba –ESTABLISHING herself as an elite pole vaulter is no doubt Yarisley Silva’s goal during the coming athletics season.Cuba’s Olympic silver medalist could possibly be performing on the stages of the world’s great theaters as a ballerina, instead of soaring pole in hand. Ballet was her great passion as…
She liked ballet and sports when she was a child. She even attended a casting call since she dreamed of becoming a classical dancer. Finally, she gave up as people told her she would gain some kilos with the age and then, track and field was her election. Her decision…
