Yarelys Barrios Castañeda (also ''Yarelis Barrios Castañeda''; born July 12, 1983, in

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) is a

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er from

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Career

She won the ''Diamond Race'' in the women's discus throw of the

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both in 2010 and in 2011. She won the 2012 Cuban National Championships with a personal best throw of 68.03 metres. Barrios finished the Olympic discus competition in 2008 in the second place, but was disqualified by the

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on September 1, 2016, because of doping due to a sample reanalysis which resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance

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. Barrios sold her Olympic silver medal on auction site, eBay, for unknown reasons, and it was bought for $11,000 (£9,000).

Achievements

*Barrios originally finished 4th in the 2012 Summer Olympics, but she moved up a position after

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was disqualified for testing positive for the anabolic steroid

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References

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Tilastopaja biographyYarelis Barrios Castañeda
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