Robiel Yankiel Sol Cervantes (born 1 May 2003) is a Cuban

para-athlete Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practised by people with a disability as a parasport. The athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, with two major exceptions in wheelchair rac ...

specializing in

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 ...

. He represented Cuba at the

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

Career

Cervantes represented Cuba in the men's long jump T47 event where he recorded a jump of 7.46 meters, setting a Paralympic record in the T47 category, and won a gold medal, Cuba's first gold medal of the

References

2003 births Living people Paralympic athletes for Cuba Cuban male long jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Cuba Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships World Para Athletics Championships winners 21st-century Cuban people {{Cuba-Paralympic-medalist-stub