Andy Díaz (born 25 December 1995) is a

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

n naturalised

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athlete specialising in the

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. He represented his country at the 2017 World Championships finishing seventh in the final. He competed at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

but did not start to avoid representing Cuba anymore.

Career

His personal bests in the event are 17.75 metres outdoors (+0.9 m/s, Florence 2023) and 17.06 metres indoors (Metz 2021). He also has a best of 7.40 metres (+0.4 m/s) in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

from 2017. He became Italian citizen on 23 February 2023.

Achievements

Circuit wins and titles

Diamond League The Diamond League is an annual series of elite track and field athletic competitions comprising fourteen of the best invitational athletics meetings. The series sits in the top tier of the World Athletics (formerly known as the IAAF) one-day mee ...

champion:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Diaz, Andy 1995 births Living people Cuban male triple jumpers Italian male triple jumpers World Athletics Championships athletes for Cuba Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Cuba Pan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games 21st-century Cuban people 21st-century Italian people Diamond League winners