Cristian Nápoles

{{Short description|Cuban triple jumper (born 1998)}}

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| name = Cristian Nápoles

| image = WKBO3156 tr jump M Napoles (53172502087).jpg

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| caption = Nápoles in 2023

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1998|11|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Marianao, Cuba

| height = 1.81 m{{cite web|url=http://resultados.elheraldo.co/eng/zb/engzb_athletics-athlete-profile-n4742-napoles-urria-cristian-atanay.htm|title=2018 CAC Games bio|accessdate=7 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180808011653/http://resultados.elheraldo.co/eng/zb/engzb_athletics-athlete-profile-n4742-napoles-urria-cristian-atanay.htm|archive-date=8 August 2018|url-status=dead}}

| weight = 80 kg

| sport = Athletics

| event = Triple jump

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{{Medal|Sport|Men's athletics}}

{{MedalCountry|{{CUB}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|2023 Budapest|Triple jump}}

{{Medal|Competition| Pan American Games}}

{{MedalBronze|{{nowrap|2023 Santiago}}|{{nowrap|Triple jump}}}}

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Cristian Atanay Nápoles (born 27 November 1998, in Marianao) is a Cuban athlete specialising in the triple jump.{{World Athletics}} He won the bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships in the triple jump event. Nápoles also represented his country at the 2017 World Championships finishing fourth and only missing the bronze by four centimetres. Additionally, he won the silver medal at the 2016 World U20 Championships and the gold at the 2015 World Youth Championships. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.{{Cite web|title=Athletics NAPOLES Cristian|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1305865-napoles-cristian.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-08-29|work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics|publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805033913/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1305865-napoles-cristian.htm |archive-date=2021-08-05 }}

His personal best in the event is 17.38 metres (+0.8 m/s) set in Doha in 2019.{{Cite web |url=http://www.all-athletics.com/node/938641 |title=All-Athletics profile |access-date=2017-08-11 |archive-date=2017-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811224026/http://www.all-athletics.com/node/938641 |url-status=dead }}

International competitions

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colspan="6"|Representing {{CUB}}
2015

|World Youth Championships

|Cali, Colombia

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|16.13 m

2016

|World U20 Championships

|Bydgoszcz, Poland

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|16.62 m

2017

|World Championships

|London, United Kingdom

|4th

|Triple jump

|17.16 m

rowspan=3|2018

|World Indoor Championships

|Birmingham, United Kingdom

|9th

|Triple jump

|16.70 m

Central American and Caribbean Games

|Barranquilla, Colombia

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|17.34 m

Ibero-American Championships

|Trujillo, Peru

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|16.81 m

2019

|World Championships

|Doha, Qatar

|5th

|Triple jump

|17.38 m

2021

|Olympic Games

|Tokyo, Japan

|10th

|Triple jump

|16.63 m

rowspan=4|2023

|ALBA Games

|Caracas, Venezuela

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|Triple jump

|17.23 m

Central American and Caribbean Games

|San Salvador, El Salvador

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|Triple jump

|17.11 m

World Championships

|Budapest, Hungary

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|17.40 m

Pan American Games

|Santiago, Chile

|bgcolor=cc9966|3rd

|Triple jump

|16.66 m

rowspan=2|2024

|World Indoor Championships

|Glasgow, United Kingdom

|13th

|Triple jump

|15.98 m

Olympic Games

|Paris, France

|18th (q)

|Triple jump

|16.67 m

References