Roberto Cabrejas
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Born | Rabanera del Pinar, Spain[1] | 28 December 1952
Died | 4 July 2001 Barcelona, Spain | (aged 48)
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | High jump |
Club | Tolosa CF |
Roberto Cabrejas Cuadrado (28 December 1952 – 4 July 2001) was a Spanish athlete who specialised in the high jump.[2] He won a silver medal at the 1983 Ibero-American Championships. In addition, he represented his country at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1983 World Championships.
His personal bests in the event were 2.26 metres outdoors (Madrid 1983) and 2.22 metres indoors (Milan 1982).[3] After retirement, he worked as a coach and was appointed head of the technical committee of high jump by the Catalan Federation of Athletism. Cabrejas died on 4 July 2001 when the motorbike he was riding on was hit by a car in Barcelona.[4]
International competitions
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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1977 | European Indoor Championships | San Sebastián, Spain | 18th | 2.10 m | |
1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Soviet Union | 16th | 2.10 m | |
1982 | European Indoor Championships | Milan, Italy | 7th | 2.22 m | |
European Championships | Athens, Greece | 13th (h) | 2.18 m | ||
1983 | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | – | NM | |
Mediterranean Games | Casablanca, Morocco | 7th | 2.13 m | ||
Ibero-American Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 2nd | 2.16 m | ||
World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 23rd (q) | 2.15 m |
References
[edit]- ^ Sports-Reference profile
- ^ Roberto Cabrejas at World Athletics
- ^ All-Athletics profile
- ^ AS, Diario (2001-07-05). "Fallece el saltador de altura Roberto Cabrejas en accidente de moto". AS.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-22.
Categories:
- 1952 births
- 2001 deaths
- Spanish male high jumpers
- Sportspeople from the Province of Burgos
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Spain
- Sportspeople from Gipuzkoa
- People from Andoain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games competitors for Spain
- 20th-century Spanish people
- 21st-century Spanish people
- Road incident deaths in Spain
- Spanish Athletics Championships winners
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