Women in Sports's video: Caterine Ibarg en: The Queen

Caterine was brought into the world in the Urabá district of Antioquia, where she was raised by her grandma after her folks isolated due to the equipped struggle in Colombia. Her dad left for Venezuela and her mom moved to Turbo, Colombia. Her eminent decorations remember two gold award for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics, a silver decoration in the 2012 Summer Olympics, and two gold decoration in the 2011 Pan American Games and the 2015 Pan American Games. Caterine previously played volleyball and Wilder Zapata, her mentor, seen her ability and recommended she play in Medellín, which had the high-profile Atanasio Girardot Sports Complex as a scene for public and global games. There she started her preparation in 1996 with the Cuban mentor Jorge Luis Alfaro, represent considerable authority in the high leap. This is the current Colombian record. She contended at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where bounced 1.85 m in the passing round. On 1 September 2011 got the bronze award at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu with a 14.84 m presentation. Situated in Puerto Rico. Instructed by Ubaldo Duany, previous Cuban Long Jumper (832 m PB from 1986). Outside 200 m: 24.96 s (wind: - 12 m/s) – San Germán, 4 December 2009 800 m: 2:35.35 least – San Germán, 4 December 2010 100 m obstacles: 14.09 s (wind: +00 m/s) – Mayagüez, 19 February 2011 High leap: 1.93 m – Cali, 22 July 2005 Long leap: 6.73 m A (wind: +18 m/s) – Bogotá, 30 June 2012 Triple leap: 15.31 m (wind: 00 m/s) – Monaco, 18 July 2014 Shot put: 13.79 m – Carolina, 20 March 2010 Lance toss: 44.81 m – San Germán, 5 December 2009 Heptathlon: 5742 pts – San Germán, 5 December 2009 Indoor High leap: 1.81 m – Moscow, 11 March 2006. Accomplishments Her own best in the high leap is 1.93 meters, accomplished on 22 July 2005 in Cali. She holds the South American record in the triple leap with 15.31 m, accomplished at the Diamond League rivalry in Monaco on 18 July 2014. On August 5, she won a silver award at the London 2012 Olympics in the triple leap contest with a 14.80 m leap on her last endeavor. On 15 August 2013 she won IAAF World Championships in Moscow in the triple leap contest with a 14.85 m leap on her subsequent endeavor. Matured 14 Ibargüen set out to live in Medellin, where she worked on under a progression of Cuban mentors, zeroing in on the High Jump (an occasion wherein she stills holds the Colombian record, with 1.93 meters), which won her first decoration, a bronze at the senior South American Championships in Bogota in 1999, matured only 15! Her very first gold decoration came in similar occasion at the South American Junior Championships in Argentina in 2001, and she coordinated with that accomplishment at the Bolivarian Games in Ecuador that very year. By this point she was contending in the 4x100m, the long leap, high leap and triple leap. She added more gold decorations to her developing award bureau in Ecuador at the South American Junior Championships in 2003, and qualified for Colombia's Olympic group for Athens 2004. Nonetheless, at the greatest phase of her vocation so far she neglected to fit the bill for the finals… Ibargüen kept on winning awards at different South American titles, however she neglected to meet all requirements for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a second which nearly made her quit the game and brought about discouragement for the youthful competitor. Nonetheless, under the direction of her new mentor Ubaldo Duany she chose to zero in on the triple leap. One more keen move there… Her record since that second has been unmatched in Colombian games – she guaranteed a triple leap gold in Argentina at the South American Championships in 2011, and made it onto the platform in third at the World Championships in South Korea that very year. She went into the London 2012 Olympics feeling sure, and dealt with a leap of 14.80m, putting her on the platform again with a silver decoration. "This silver decoration is for all Colombia. I'm incredibly glad for this accomplishment. It is the prize for a long time of penance, leaving Apartadó, moving to Medellín and afterward Puerto Rico. Yet, I sincerely trust I might have hopped farther," she said after her silver.