Anier Boué

{{short description|Cuban javelin thrower}}

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Anier Boué (born April 3, 1984) is a Cuban javelin thrower.{{cite sports-reference|title = Anier Boué|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/anier-boue-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418093410/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/anier-boue-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|accessdate = 8 December 2012}}
- {{ Citation |title=XXIX JUEGOS OLIMPICOS BEIJING 2008 - Delegación Cubana |url=http://www.inder.cu/beijing2008/Download/PDFs/Boletin/boletin0.pdf |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Deportes Educación Física y Recreación (INDER) |page=57 |language=Spanish |accessdate=June 24, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101225707/http://www.inder.cu/beijing2008/Download/PDFs/Boletin/boletin0.pdf |archivedate=January 1, 2016}}
Shortly before the Olympics, he had won two gold medals in his category at the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Cali, Colombia, and also at the Ibero-American Championships in Iquique, Chile.{{cite web|last=Biscayart|first=Eduardo|title=Cuba takes overall title in Cali; last day of CAC Champs beset by torrential rains|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/cuba-takes-overall-title-in-cali-last-day-of|publisher=IAAF|date=7 July 2008|accessdate=8 December 2012}}
- {{cite web|last=Biscayart|first=Eduardo|title=Brazil leads after day two of Ibero-American Championships in Iquique|url=http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/brazil-leads-after-day-2-of-ibero-american-ch|publisher=IAAF|date=15 June 2008|accessdate=8 December 2012}}

Boué represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where he competed in the men's javelin throw. He placed fifteenth for the first group, and twenty-eighth overall in the qualifying rounds, with a throw of 71.85 metres, failing to advance into the finals.{{cite web|title=Men's Javelin Throw – Qualifying Rounds |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATM053900/standings.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=8 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730235605/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM053900/standings.html |archivedate=30 July 2012 }}

Boue threw his personal best of 80.53 metres at a national meet in his home city of Havana.

Personal best

  • Javelin throw: 80.53 m – {{flagicon|CUB}} La Habana, 21 June 2007

Achievements

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bgcolor="#eeeeee" colspan="6"|Representing {{CUB}}
2005

|ALBA Games

|La Habana, Cuba

|5th

|Javelin

|72.42 m

2007

|ALBA Games

|Caracas, Venezuela

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Javelin

|79.14 m

rowspan=3|2008

|Ibero-American Championships

|Iquique, Chile

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Javelin

|78.77 m

Central American and Caribbean Championships

|Cali, Colombia

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Javelin

|74.98 m

Olympic Games

|Beijing, China

|28th (q)

|Javelin

|71.85 m

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