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{{short description|Cuban hammer thrower}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{family name hatnote|Moreno|González|lang=Spanish}} 
{{Infobox sportsperson
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| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|1980|11|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place    = Agramonte, [[Camagüey Province|Camagüey]], Cuba
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| weight         = {{convert|78|kg|abbr=on}} 
| country        = {{CUB}} (until 2014)<br />{{ALB}} (from 2025)
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| event          = [[Hammer throw]]
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| medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]] | [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]] | [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold   |[[2001 World Championships in Athletics|2001 Edmonton]]|Hammer}}
{{MedalGold   |[[2003 World Championships in Athletics|2003 Paris]]|Hammer}}
{{MedalGold |[[2005 World Championships in Athletics|2005 Helsinki]]|[[2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[2007 World Championships in Athletics|2007 Osaka]]|Hammer}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Pan American Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2003 Pan American Games|2003 Santo Domingo]] | [[Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games - Women's hammer throw|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2007 Pan American Games|2007 Rio de Janeiro]] | [[Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[2011 Pan American Games|2011 Guadalajara]] | [[Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games|Hammer]]}}
{{MedalSilver | [[1999 Pan American Games|1999 Winnipeg]] | [[Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games|Hammer]]}}
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'''Yipsi Moreno González''' (born 19 November 1980, in [[Camagüey Province|Camagüey]]) is a Cuban-born naturalized Albanian [[hammer throw]]er. She is a triple [[World Champions in athletics (women)|world champion]] and [[List of Olympic medalists in athletics (women)#Hammer throw|Olympic gold medalist]], a former world junior record holder and current area<ref>North America, Central America and the Caribbean (NACAC)</ref> record holder.

In 2016, after the 2008 Olympic gold medallist Belarus athlete Aksana Miankova received a disqualification by IAAF, Moreno ostensibly became Olympic hammer throw champion for Cuba in the [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Olympic Games]] in Beijing.

== Early life and education ==
At the age of 11, she was recruited by the Cerro Pelado Sports School in her hometown, where she started practicing [[shot put]] and [[discus throw]]. Hammer throw was not a regular women's event at the time, but following its introduction in Cuba in 1993, she eventually concentrated on this event and she earned a place on the national junior team in 1996.

== Athletics career ==

=== 1997–2000 ===
In 1997, Moreno won the Pan American Junior Championships in Havana with a throw of 55.74 metres, improving the two-year-old championship record with ten metres. She beat the second-place finisher [[Maureen Griffin]] by a 46 centimetre margin.<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/paj.htm Pan American Junior Championships] - GBR Athletics</ref> This year she threw past the 60 metre mark for the first time, with 61.96 m. The next year, she finished fourth at the [[1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics|1998 World Junior Championships]], this time 29 centimetres behind Griffin.<ref>[http://www2.iaaf.org/WJC98/Results/data/W/HT/RF.html 1998 World Junior Championships - Official Results - Hammer Throw - Women - Final] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071114052429/http://www2.iaaf.org/WJC98/Results/data/W/HT/RF.html |date=14 November 2007 }} (IAAF)</ref> After the World Junior Championships, Moreno started working with a new coach Eladio Hernández, himself a former hammer thrower. The cooperation paid off almost immediately as Moreno established a new world junior record on 29 May 1999 with 66.34 metres at altitude in Mexico City.<!--However this lasted only 13 days.-->

Later that year, she won the silver medal at the [[Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]] with 63.03 metres, only beaten by [[Dawn Ellerbe]] who threw 65.36.<ref name="PAG">[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/pag.htm Pan American Games] - GBR Athletics</ref> At the [[1999 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] the same year her only valid throw measured 58.68 metres, giving her an eighteenth place in the final (there was no qualification round).<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/history/Year=1999/EventCode=1822/gender=W/discipline=HT/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/index.html 1999 World Championships - Official Results - Hammer Throw - Women - Final] (IAAF)</ref> At her next major competition, the [[2000 Olympics]], she improved to fourth place.

=== 2001–2002 ===
In 2001, she broke the 70 metre barrier for the first time, and improved her personal best to 70.65 metres as she won the [[2001 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] in Edmonton. Three weeks later she won the silver medal at the [[2001 Summer Universiade]] behind [[Manuela Montebrun]] of France, who had finished fifth in Edmonton. In 2002, she improved to 71.47 metres in Madrid in July. She was selected to represent the [[Americas]] at the [[2002 IAAF World Cup|2002 World Cup]] held in the same city two months later, and finished second.

=== 2003–2005 ===
In July 2003, she improved further to 75.14 metres. At the [[Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]] she won the gold ahead of compatriot [[Yunaika Crawford]], smashing Dawn Ellerbe's championship record with a 74.25 metres throw.<ref name="PAG"/> At the [[2003 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]] in August she defended her title with a second round effort of 73.33 metres. Her third round result of 72.52 m further secured the gold as runner-up [[Olga Kuzenkova]] managed no more than 71.71 m.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/WCH05/history/Year=2003/EventCode=2962/gender=W/discipline=HT/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/index.html 2003 World Championships - Official Results - Hammer Throw - Women - Final] (IAAF)</ref> Commenting on her victory, Moreno stated that she "was happy for Cuba and my family". The inaugural [[2003 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]] in Szombathely, where she obtained another triumph, concluded the season. At the end of the year she was named ''Cuban Sportswoman of the Year'' for 2003.

2004 was an Olympic year and Moreno was considered the pre-event favourite for the [[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|hammer throw contest]].<ref name="OLY04">{{cite news |author=CT |title=Women's Hammer Throw Final |url=http://www.iaaf.org/OLY04/news/Kind=4/newsId=26666.html |work=IAAF |date=25 August 2004 |access-date=2007-03-07 }}</ref> Not only was she in lead of the world ranking, her new personal best and [[List of South American records in athletics|South American record]] of 75.18 metres from the [[National Cuban Olympics]] in Havana in April was the world leading result.<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/moreno-improves-area-record-to-7518-in-cuban Moreno improves Area record to 75.18 in Cuban National Olympics]. [[IAAF]] (2004-04-26). Retrieved on 2010-04-29.</ref><ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=O/ageGroup=N/season=2004/gender=W/discipline=HT/legal=A/index.html IAAF top lists - women's hammer throw 2004]</ref> In the Olympic final, however, her chance of winning soon dwindled as Olga Kuzenkova took the lead and Moreno fouled her first throw. Moreno went on to foul on three of her five remaining efforts, managing 73.36 metres in the fourth round, while Kuzenkova had improved to 75.02 metres in the third round.<ref name="OLY04"/> Yunaika Crawford took the bronze medal behind Moreno.

The [[2004 Olympic Games]] was the only major competition for Moreno in 2004. She did not compete at the [[2004 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]] and experienced a foot injury which sidelined her for the first half of 2005. This meant she was dethroned from the leading position at the world ranking, but she recovered the position after a gold medal at the [[2005 World Championships in Athletics|2005 World Championships]] and a victory at the [[2005 World Athletics Final]]. For the first time in her career, however, she went a whole season without improving her personal best.

=== 2006–2007 ===
In early 2006, Moreno won her first [[Athletics at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games|Central American and Caribbean Games]] title, setting another championship record with 70.22 metres. In August she again lost her top ranking position, this time to Russia's [[Tatyana Lysenko]] who had established a new world record of 77.80 m. Moreno's season best mark was 74.69 m from the Ostrava Super Grand Prix in May. She finished third at the [[2006 IAAF World Athletics Final|2006 World Athletics Final]] and the [[2006 IAAF World Cup|2006 World Cup]], both times behind [[Kamila Skolimowska]] of Poland.

On 3 March 2007, she broke her own area record as she threw 75.64 metres in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. Establishing the new record in the fifth round of the competition, she followed this up with a 75.43 metres throw in the final round, again longer than her previous personal best. "I have had a good start this year, without physical problems", Moreno explained.<ref>{{cite news |first=Javier |last=Clavelo Robinson |title=Moreno lets fly with 75.64m Area Hammer Throw record |url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/moreno-lets-fly-with-7564m-area-hammer-throw |work=IAAF |date=6 March 2007 |access-date=2007-03-07 }}</ref> On 17 June she improved the record again, with a 76.36 m throw from the second round in the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial, [[Warsaw]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Pawel |last=Jackowski |title=Tikhon and Moreno blast hammers out to 82.58 and 76.36m on superb night of results in Warsaw |url=http://www.iaaf.org/WAF07/news/Kind=2/newsId=39149.html |work=IAAF |date=18 June 2007 |access-date=2007-06-21 }}</ref>

===2008===
At the [[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|2008 Olympics Women's Hammer Throw final]], Moreno again won a silver medal, this time behind [[Aksana Miankova]] of [[Belarus]], who threw an Olympic Record distance of 76.34 meters in her second-to-last round. Moreno was in the silver medal position with one throw left, and in her final effort, she fell short of Miankova with a throw of 75.20 meters, although it was her best throw of the final.

She was declared 2008 Olympic Champion in 2016, after Belarusian Aksana Miankova was disqualified for using prohibited substances.

==Personal bests==
*Hammer throw: '''76.62 m''' – {{flagicon|CRO}} [[Zagreb]], 9 September 2008

==Achievements==
{| {{AchievementTable|class=wikitable style="text-align:center; font-size: 90%;}} 
|-
|1997
|[[1997 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships|Pan American Junior Championships]]
|[[Havana]], [[Cuba]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|55.74 m
|-
|rowspan=2|1998
|[[1998 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics|Ibero-American Championships]]
|[[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|[[1998 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results#Hammer throw 2|57.97 m]]
|-
|[[1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]
|[[Annecy]], [[France]]
|4th
|[[1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|59.85 m]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1999
|[[Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]
|[[Winnipeg]], [[Canada]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|[[Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games – Women's hammer throw|63.03 m]]
|-
|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Sevilla]], [[Spain]]
|18th (q)
|[[1999 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|58.68 m]]
|-
|2000
|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Sydney]], Australia
|4th
|[[Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics - Women's hammer throw|68.33 m]]
|-
|rowspan=3|2001
|[[2001 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Edmonton]], Canada
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|[[2001 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw|70.65 m]]
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade|Universiade]]
|[[Beijing]], [[China]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|[[Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade - Women's hammer throw|68.39 m]]
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2001 Goodwill Games|Goodwill Games]]
|[[Brisbane]], [[Australia]]
|4th
|[[Athletics at the 2001 Goodwill Games – Results#Hammer throw 2|67.83 m]]
|-
|2002
|[[2002 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|[[Madrid]], [[Spain]]
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|[[2002 IAAF World Cup results#Hammer throw|69.65 m]]<ref name="World Cup">Representing the Americas.</ref>
|-
|rowspan=3|2003
|[[Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]
|[[Santo Domingo]], [[Dominican Republic]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games – Women's hammer throw|74.25 m]]
|-
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Paris]], France
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|[[2003 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw|73.33 m]]
|-
|[[2003 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Szombathely]], [[Hungary]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|73.42 m
|-
|rowspan=2|2004
|[[2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics|Ibero-American Championships]]
|[[Huelva]], [[Spain]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[2004 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results#Hammer throw 2|71.06 m]]
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Athens]], Greece
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|[[Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|73.36 m]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2005
|[[2005 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Helsinki]], Finland
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|[[2005 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|73.08 m]]
|-
|[[2005 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Szombathely]], [[Hungary]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|74.75 m
|-
|rowspan=3|2006
|[[Athletics at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games|Central American and Caribbean Games]]
|[[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], Colombia
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|[[Athletics at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games – Women's hammer throw|70.22 m]]
|-
|[[2006 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Stuttgart]], [[Germany]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|71.85 m
|-
|[[2006 IAAF World Cup|World Cup]]
|[[Athens]], [[Greece]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd 
|[[2006 IAAF World Cup results#Hammer throw|73.99 m]]<ref name="World Cup"/>
|-
|rowspan=4|2007
|[[Athletics at the 2007 ALBA Games|ALBA Games]]
|[[Caracas]], [[Venezuela]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|70.44 m
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]
|[[Rio de Janeiro]], [[Brazil]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games – Women's hammer throw|75.20 m]]
|-
|[[2007 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Osaka]], Japan
|bgcolor="silver" | 2nd
|[[2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|74.74 m]]
|-
|[[2007 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Stuttgart]], [[Germany]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|73.76 m
|-
|rowspan=2|2008
|[[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[Beijing]], China
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|[[Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's hammer throw|75.20 m]]
|-
|[[2008 IAAF World Athletics Final|World Athletics Final]]
|[[Stuttgart]], [[Germany]]
|bgcolor="gold" | 1st
|74.09 m
|-
|rowspan=2|2010
|[[2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics|Ibero-American Championships]]
|[[San Fernando, Cádiz|San Fernando]], [[Spain]]
| —
|[[2010 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results#Hammer throw 2|NM]]
|-
|[[2010 IAAF Continental Cup|Continental Cup]]
|[[Split, Croatia]]
|bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd
|[[2010 IAAF Continental Cup results#Hammer throw|72.73 m]]<ref name="World Cup"/>
|-
|rowspan=2|2011
|[[2011 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Daegu]], South Korea
|4th
|[[2011 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw|74.48 m]]
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games|Pan American Games]]
|[[Guadalajara]], [[Mexico|México]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[Athletics at the 2011 Pan American Games – Women's hammer throw|75.62 m]] '''A'''
|-
|2012
|[[Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]
|[[London]], United Kingdom
|5th
|[[Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's hammer throw|74.60 m]]
|-
|2013
|[[2013 World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]
|[[Moscow]], Russia
|5th
|[[2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's hammer throw|74.16 m]]
|-
|rowspan=2|2014
|[[Athletics at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival|Pan American Sports Festival]]
|[[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]
|bgcolor=silver|2nd
|[[Athletics at the 2014 Pan American Sports Festival – Results#Hammer throw 2|69.65 m]] '''A'''
|-
|[[Athletics at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games|Central American and Caribbean Games]]
|[[Xalapa]], [[Mexico]]
|bgcolor=gold|1st
|[[Athletics at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games – Results#Hammer throw 2|71.35 m]] '''A'''
|}

== Footnotes ==
{{Reflist}}

== References ==
* {{World Athletics}}
* [http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/cuba/yipsi-moreno-134579#biography IAAF Focus on Athletes]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080823233459/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/AT/C73S/ATW054101.shtml 2008 Olympics Woman's Hammer Throw Results]

==External links==
*{{SR/Olympics profile|mo/yipsi-moreno-1}}

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