Cristina Hechavarria

{{short description|Cuban sprinter}}

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| sport = Athletics

| event = 100 metres

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| pb = 11.9 seconds (1966){{cite web|url=http://en.granma.cu/deportes/2018-02-01/cubas-enemies-silenced|last=Nacianceno|first=Alfonso|date=1 February 2018|title=Cuba’s enemies silenced|work=Granma}}

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{{Medal|Competition|Central American and Caribbean Games}}

{{Medal|Silver|1966 San Juan|100 m}}

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{{Medal|Gold|1967 Winnipeg|4 × 100 m relay}}

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Cristina Hechavarria (also known as Cristina Echevarria) was a Cuban sprinter. She won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1967 Pan American Games, and the silver medal in the 100 metres at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games. She was the grandmother and first coach of 2016 Olympic silver-medalist Orlando Ortega.{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/spain/orlando-ortega-236573|title=Orlando Ortega Focus On Athletes Biography|author=Javier Clavelo|date=24 July 2012}} She died when Ortega was young, and in her remembrance Ortega kept all his medals at her house.{{cite web|url=https://www.iaaf.org/news/series/orlando-ortega-spain-110m-hurdles-first-medal|title=THAT MOMENT WHEN… ORTEGA WON HIS FIRST INTERNATIONAL MEDAL|date=30 December 2017|author=Steve Landells}}

Her husband Orlando Ortega Sr. was a member of the Cuba national football team in the 1960s.