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Medal record
Women's Athletics
Competitor for Cuba
Olympic Games
Silver	1996 Atlanta	800 m
Bronze	1992 Barcelona	800 m
World Championships
Gold	1995 Gothenburg	800 m
Gold	1997 Athens	800 m
Silver	1991 Tokyo	800 m
Pan American Games
Gold	1987 Indianapolis	400 m
Gold	1987 Indianapolis	800 m
Gold	1991 Havana	400 m
Gold	1991 Havana	800 m
Silver	1991 Havana	4x400 m relay
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold	1986 Santiago	400 metres
Gold	1986 Santiago	800 metres
Gold	1990 Mexico City	400 metres
Gold	1990 Mexico City	800 metres
Summer Universiade
Gold	1989 Duisburg	800 metres

Ana Fidelia Quirot (born March 23, 1963 in Palma Soriano) is an athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m.

Quirot won a silver medal at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. However the following year she was involved in a horrific domestic accident that left her seriously injured. She was pregnant at the time and gave birth to her daughter prematurely in hospital while fighting for her life. Her daughter did not survive and died a week after she was born.

She returned from her accident in late 1993 and won a silver medal in the Central America Games, behind the Surinam athlete Letitia Vriesde. She enjoyed great international success in the following years too: she won a gold medal at the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Sweden and again in 1997 in Athens. She also won a silver at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

She is one of only a handful of female athletes who have run under 1 minute and 55 seconds for 800 m: her best time of 1:54.44 was set when winning the IAAF World Cup in Barcelona in 1989 and she also ran 1:54.82 to beat Maria de Lurdes Mutola in a Grand Prix race in Cologne in 1997. Her personal best time ranks her as the fourth fastest 800 m runner of all time. Her personal best for 400 m is 49.61.

[edit] Trivia

Ana Fidelia Quirot has a daughter: Karla Fidelia de la Caridad and a son Alberto Alejandro.

Her running uniform is exposed as an Ex Voto in the Sanctuary of the Virgin Del Cobre.

[edit] External links and sources

IAAF profile for Ana Fidelia Quirot
[1] a brief biography in french
[2] a blog with photo of Quirot taken on 1 st May 2007.

v • d • e World Champions in Women's 800 m

1983 Jarmila Kratochvílová \| 1987 Sigrun Wodars \| 1991 Liliya Nurutdinova \| 1993 Maria Mutola \| 1995 Ana Fidelia Quirot \| 1997 Ana Fidelia Quirot \| 1999 Ludmila Formanová \| 2001 Maria Mutola \| 2003 Maria Mutola \| 2005 Zulia Calatayud \| 2007 Janeth Jepkosgei \| 2009 Caster Semenya

v • d • e Pan American Champions in Women's 400 m

1951 – 1967: Not Held • 1971: Marilyn Neufville (JAM) • 1975: Joyce Yakubowich (CAN) • 1979: Sharon Dabney (USA) • 1983: Charmaine Crooks (CAN) • 1987 – 1991: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1995: Julia Duporty (CUB) • 1999 – 2007: Ana Guevara (MEX)

v • d • e Pan American Champions in Women's 800 m

1951 – 1959: Not Held • 1963: Abby Hoffman (CAN) • 1967: Madeline Manning (USA) • 1971: Abby Hoffman (CAN) • 1975: Kathy Weston (USA) • 1979: Essie Kelley (USA) • 1983: Nery McKeen (CUB) • 1987 – 1991: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1995: Meredith Rainey-Valmon (USA) • 1999: Letitia Vriesde (SUR) • 2003: Adriana Muñoz (CUB) • 2007: Diane Cummins (CAN)

Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 800 m

1959: Nicole Goullieux (FRA) • 1961: Antje Gleichfeld (FRG) • 1963: Olga Kazi (HUN) • 1965: Laine Erik (URS) • 1967: Madeline Manning (USA) • 1970: Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR) • 1973: Liyana Tomova (BUL) • 1975: Nina Morgunova (URS) • 1977: Totka Petrova (BUL) • 1979: Nadezhda Mushta (URS) • 1981: Doina Melinte (ROM) • 1983: Irina Podyalovskaya (URS) • 1985: Nadezhda Zvyagintseva (URS) • 1987: Slobodanka Čolović (YUG) • 1989: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1991: Inna Yevseyeva (URS) • 1993: Amy Wickus (USA) • 1995: Stella Jongmans (NED) • 1997: Irina Nedelenko (UKR) • 1999: Yuliya Taranova (RUS) • 2001: Brigita Langerholc (SLO) • 2003: Liliana Popescu (ROM) • 2005: Svetlana Klyuka (RUS) • 2007: Yuliya Krevsun (UKR) • 2009: Madeleine Pape (AUS)

v • d • e Central American and Caribbean Games Champions in Women's 400 m

1970: Carmen Trustée (CUB) • 1974 – 1978: Aurelia Pentón (CUB) • 1982: June Griffith (GUY) • 1986 – 1990: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1993: Julia Duporty (CUB) • 1998: Sandie Richards (JAM) • 2002 – 2006: Ana Guevara (MEX)

v • d • e Central American and Caribbean Games Champions in Women's 800 m

1970: Carmen Trustée (CUB) • 1974: Charlotta Bradley (MEX) • 1978: Aurelia Pentón (CUB) • 1982: Nery McKeen (CUB) • 1986 – 1990: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1993 – 2002: Letitia Vriesde (SUR) • 2006: Zulia Calatayud (CUB)

v • d • e IAAF World/Continental Cup Champions in Women's 400 m

1977: Irena Szewińska (POL) • 1979: Marita Koch (GDR) • 1981: Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) • 1985: Marita Koch (GDR) • 1989: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1992: Jearl Miles (USA) • 1994: Irina Privalova (RUS) • 1998: Falilat Ogunkoya (NGR) • 2002: Ana Guevara (MEX) • 2006: Sanya Richards (USA)

v • d • e IAAF World/Continental Cup Champions in Women's 800 m

1977: Totka Petrova (URS) • 1979: Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) • 1981: Lyudmila Veselkova (URS) • 1985: Christine Wachtel (GDR) • 1989: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1992 – 2002: Maria Mutola (MOZ) • 2006: Zulia Calatayud (CUB)

World Best Year Performance in Women's 800 m

1976: Tatyana Kazankina (URS) • 1977: Ileana Silai (ROM) • 1978: Tatyana Providokhina (URS) • 1979: Totka Petrova (BUL) • 1980: Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) • 1981: Lyudmila Veselkova (URS) • 1982: Doina Melinte (ROM) • 1983: Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) • 1984: Irina Podyalovskaya (URS) • 1985: Ella Kovacs (ROM) • 1986: Doina Melinte (ROM) • 1987: Sigrun Wodars (GDR) • 1988: Inna Yevseyeva and Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS) • 1989: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1990: Sigrun Wodars (GDR) • 1991: Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) • 1992: Ellen van Langen (NED) • 1993 – 1995: Maria Mutola (MOZ) • 1996: Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) • 1997: Ana Fidelia Quirot (CUB) • 1998: Maria Mutola (MOZ) • 1999: Svetlana Masterkova (RUS) • 2000–2001: Maria Mutola (MOZ) • 2002: Jolanda Čeplak (SLO) • 2003: Maria Mutola (MOZ) • 2004–2005: Tatyana Andrianova (RUS) • 2006–2007: Janeth Jepkosgei Busienei (KEN) • 2008: Pamela Jelimo (KEN)

Awards
Preceded by Florence Griffith-Joyner	Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Year 1989	Succeeded by Merlene Ottey

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