Roberto Cabrejas Cuadrado (28 December 1952 – 4 July 2001) was a Spanish athlete who specialised in the

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

. He won a silver medal at the

1983 Ibero-American Championships The 1983 Ibero-American Championships (Spanish: ''I Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo'') was an athletics competition which was held at the Estadi Serrahima in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 23–25 September 1983. A total of 37 events we ...

. In addition, he represented his country at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

and 1983 World Championships. His personal bests in the event were 2.26 metres outdoors (Madrid 1983) and 2.22 metres indoors (Milan 1982). After retirement, he worked as a coach and was appointed head of the technical committee of high jump by the Catalan Federation of Athletism. Cabrejas died on 4 July 2001 when the motorbike he was riding on was hit by a car in

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International competitions

References

RFEA bio
1952 births 2001 deaths Spanish male high jumpers Sportspeople from the Province of Burgos World Athletics Championships athletes for Spain Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Spain Sportspeople from Gipuzkoa People from Andoain Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games competitors for Spain 20th-century Spanish people 21st-century Spanish people Road incident deaths in Spain Spanish Athletics Championships winners {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub