Yamilé Aldama

Yamilé Aldama's career reads like a meditation on persistence and belonging. A triple jumper who competed for Cuba, then Sudan, then Great Britain across four Olympic Games, she chased her event wherever it would let her compete. Silver at the 1999 Worlds and gold at the 2012 World Indoors, the latter near the age of forty, point to a hunger that simply refused to fade. I find her story genuinely moving because it strips sport down to its purest form, a person and a sandpit and the next leap. National colours shifted, but her devotion to the discipline never wavered.

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Name (English)

Yamilé Aldama

Name (Japanese)

ヤミレ・アルダマ

Reading

やみれ・あるだま

Born

August 14, 1972 (age 54)

Origin

Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Height

173 cm

Occupation

athletics competitor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamil%C3%A9%20Aldama
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q264616

Tags

• Havana Province
• athletics competitor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.