Yaimé Pérez Téllez

She is a Cuban discus thrower, who competed in the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto 2015.

She was born in Santiago de Cuba, in the eastern part of the Island on May 29, 1991. While still a junior, she participated in the 2009 ALBA Games where she finished 9th with a throw of 52.00 meters. The following year she would become world junior champion by marking 56.01 m at the competition in Moncton, Canada.

Sports Career
2010 - 2012
Yaimé obtained her first title in the senior category during the ALBA Games in 2011 held in Barquisimeto, Venezuela and the following year she participated in the Ibero-American Championship (also in Barquisimeto), where she finished fourth with a throw of 55.26. In her first Olympic Games she threw the discus to 57.87 meters, finishing in thirtieth place in the standings.

2013 - 2016
In June 2013 she participated in the fifth stop of the Diamond League at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, where she finished in fifth position and at the Paavo Nurmi athletics meeting in Turku, Finland where she threw the implement to 56.98 meters, well below her capabilities, but which allowed her to anchor in third place behind her compatriot Yarelis Barrios and Romanian Zinaida Sendriute. Days after this result she would also participate in the thirteenth edition of the International Athletics Meeting Villa de Bilbao in Spain, a competition in which she finished second with a mark of 63.42, behind Yarelis Barrios (64.51) and relegating fellow Cuban Denia Caballero (59.98).

She competed alongside her teammate Denia Caballero in the Spanish Athletics Championship held in July 2013 but did not achieve valid marks. Shortly before, in that same month of July, she had finished fourth at the Atlessima Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, where her compatriot Yarelis Barrios finished in second position.

In May 2014 she won the Barrientos Memorial by registering her personal best mark to date (66.03), which allowed her to surpass with relative ease her closest competitors Yanisley Collado (60.56) and Denia Caballero (59.84). On June 27, 2014 - already touring Europe - together with Denia Caballero, at the Stanislas Meeting in Nancy, France, where she finished second with a throw of 63.50, behind Denia (64.35).

During the II IAAF Continental Cup, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in September 2014, she finished in second position with a throw of 59.38 meters. The following month, in the major competition of Cuban sports that year, the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico, she won the silver medal, surpassed by her compatriot Denia Caballero, who set a record for the Games.

In May 2015 Yaimé, at the Panamerican Stadium threw the discus to 63.35 meters to, like her teammate Denia Caballero, achieve a valid mark for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games. A few days later at the Barrientos Memorial - Copa Cuba (at the same Panamerican Stadium) she surpassed her personal mark by registering 66.23, good for second place, behind Denia.

The following month at the 8th stop of the Diamond League, at the Icahn Stadium in New York City, United States she finished second, behind superstar Croatian Sandra Pérkovic with a throw of 65.86. However, that same month at the 9th stop in Lausanne, Switzerland she had two throws above 67 meters (67.06 and 67.13), her personal bests with which she surpassed Pérkovic (67.06). Shortly before, in that same month of June she had finished third at Golden Gala in Rome behind Pérkovic and Australian Dani Samuels.

In the main challenge of Cuban athletics during 2015, the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto she threw the discus to 64.99 meters, which earned her the silver medal, as she was again surpassed by her compatriot Denia Caballero who managed to mark 65.39 to win the Pan American crown.

She won the gold medal at the Cuban Athletics Cup held at the Panamerican Stadium in March 2017 with a throw of 65.57 meters, achieved on her first attempt.

At the World Athletics Championship held in London in August 2017 she did not win a medal, finishing in fourth place with a mark of 64.82.

On August 20 at the Diamond League in Birmingham, contested that day as the stop prior to the finals bound for Zurich and Brussels, she won the bronze medal with a mark of 65.11.

At the final stop of the Diamond League held on September 1, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium she finished in seventh place with a mark of 61.45 meters and four fouls.

At the 2018 Central American Games in Barranquilla she won the gold medal with 65 meters.