Yalennis Castillo Ramírez (born 21 May 1986) is a

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. She was born in Moa, Holguín, Cuba on 21 May 1986. She practiced judo since she was a child. Castillo first won medals in the 2004 Pan American Championships and the Leonding Tournament in Austria. She won the silver medal in the

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event of the 2006 World Team Championships and a bronze medal in the 2007 World Cup in Vienna, Austria. That year she also participated in the 2007 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Castillo's greatest result was in the 2008, where Castillo won a silver medal in the 78 kg category at the

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in a disputed match against the local contender Yang Xiuli. During 2008 she also won the Torneo de Cuenca in Ecuador, the Tre Torri in Italy, the Super Cup of the World, in Hamburg, Germany, and the 2008 Pan American Championships in Miami, USA. Castillo was intermittently in and out of international competition due to an injury and because she married Cuban baseball player Frank Morejón and had a child. By 2014 she had returned to competition. She participated at the

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. There, she lost in the quarterfinals to

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from Slovenia and then lost the bronze medal match through the repechage, finishing 5th.

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