Yargelis Savigne Herrera

Cuban athlete specializing in long jump and triple jump. She became world champion in triple jump at the Osaka 2007 World Championships and was runner-up at the Helsinki 2005 championships.

She began in athletics under the guidance of coach Arnaldo Charadán. In 2001 she became national juvenile champion in long jump. In 2002 she achieved the Central American and Caribbean title also in the juvenile category.

Her first major international success in the senior category was the bronze medal in long jump at the Santo Domingo 2003 Pan American Games.

Starting in 2005 she began competing in both long jump and triple jump events. That very year she caused a major upset by winning the silver medal in triple jump at the Helsinki World Championships, despite not being among the favorites. Her mark was 14.82, surpassed only by Jamaican Trecia Smith with 15.11. Additionally in those same championships she finished fourth in long jump.

2007 was her best year so far. In the indoor track season she was the leader of the world rankings with a jump of 14.80 achieved in Düsseldorf. In the summer she won two medals at the Rio de Janeiro Pan American Games (gold in triple jump and bronze in long jump).

At the Osaka 2007 World Championships she became world champion in triple jump with her best-ever mark of 15.28, decisively beating Russian Tatiana Lébedeva (silver with 15.07) and Greek Hrysopiyi Devetzi (bronze with 15.04)

She measures 1.65m and weighs 53 kg. Her coach is Milán Matos, the same coach who also trained Iván Pedroso.

Personal Records
Outdoors
Long jump - 6.77m (Havana, 19 May 2005)
Triple jump - 15.28m (Osaka, 31 Aug 2007)
Indoors
Long jump - 6.79m (Stuttgart, 3 Feb 2007)
Triple jump - 15.05m (Valencia, 8 Mar 2008)

Results
2003 Pan American Games Santo Domingo 3rd in Long Jump 6.40m
2005 World Championship Helsinki 2nd in Triple Jump 14.82m 4th in Long Jump 6.69m
2005 IAAF World Final Monaco 3rd in Triple Jump 14.81m
2006 World Indoor Championship Moscow 5th in Triple Jump 14.72m 6th in Long Jump 6.51m
2007 Pan American Games Rio de Janeiro 3rd in Long Jump 6.66m 1st in Triple Jump 14.80m
2007 World Championship Osaka 1st in Triple Jump 15.28m
2007 IAAF World Final Stuttgart 1st in Triple Jump 14.78m
2009 2009 World Athletics Championship Berlin 1st in Triple Jump 14.95m
2010 Named the most outstanding athlete of the year in Cuba for obtaining a silver medal in the triple jump event of the indoor world championship, 14.86m. Ibero-American champion in triple jump and Diamond League title holder in the same event, runner-up in the Continental Cup in long jump and bronze medal in triple jump.