Dailis Caballero Vega (born March 6, 1988) is a Cuban-born American track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. She has a personal best of 4.51 m for the event – the second highest by a Cuban woman. She represented Cuba at the

2011 Pan American Games The 2011 Pan American Games, officially the XVI Pan American Games, was an international multi-sport event that was held from October 14–30, 2011, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Some events were held in the nearby cities of Ciudad Guzmán, ...

and the

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. She has won medals at the Central American and Caribbean Championships and

Ibero-American Championships The Ibero-American Championships in Athletics (Spanish: ''Campeonato Iberoamericano de Atletismo'') is a biennial athletics competition for athletes representing Ibero-American countries as well as a number of other Spanish- or Portuguese-spea ...

. She competes for the United States since 2019. Born in Havana, Caballero began competing in the pole vault as a teenager and cleared four metres for the first time in 2007. She improved to 4.25 m the following year in Havana in June.Caballero Dailis
IAAF. Retrieved 21 July 2012. At the

Barrientos Memorial The Barrientos Memorial ( es, Memorial José Barrientos) is an annual track and field meeting in Havana, Cuba each May. The event was first held in 1946, in recognition of José Barrientos (a former Cuban Olympic sprinter), who died in an aviation ...

in 2009 she established herself nationally by finishing as runner-up to

Yarisley Silva Yarisley Silva Rodríguez (born 1 June 1987) is a Cuban pole vaulter. She won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics – the first Latin American athlete to win an Olympic medal in that event. Silva became the first Cuban woman to reach ...

with a best of 4.30 m. The pair repeated that placing at the

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in Havana, bringing Caballero a silver medal on her international debut. Her 2010 season was highlighted by a win at the Barrientos Memorial with a personal best-equalling vault. She had a marked improvement at the beginning of 2011, vaulting 4.45 m, then 4.51 m in Havana. She repeated her win at the Barrientos meet in 2011, but she then failed to clear a height at the 2011 CAC Championships. Two major international performances came towards the end of the season: she competed on the global stage for the first time at the

(performing in the qualifiers) and represented Cuba at the

(finishing in seventh place). Caballero competed on the European indoor circuit at the start of 2012 and set an indoor best of 4.42 m at the

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. Outdoors she cleared 4.40 m in May and headed to Barquisimeto for the

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the month after to take her first international

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with a vault of 4.50 m. She was selected to compete for

Cuba at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cuba competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance in the Olympics. With baseball's removal from the Olympic program and the absence of the nation's volleyball team fo ...

alongside fellow vaulter Yarisley Silva.Cuba announces team of 47 for London Games
IAAF (July 16, 2012). Retrieved 21 July 2012. Away from the track since 2013, she returned to competitions in 2019 as a United States athlete. She finished 5th at the US Championships with a vault of 4.60 m.

Personal bests

Outdoor *Pole vault: 4.60 m –

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, July 28, 2019 Indoor *Pole vault: 4.50 m – Lubbock, January 18, 2019

Competition record

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Sports reference biographyTilastopaja biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Caballero, Dailis Living people 1988 births Cuban female pole vaulters Pan American Games competitors for Cuba Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games Athletes from Havana Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Cuba Cuban emigrants to the United States