Yagnelis Mestre

Yagnelis Mestre

Personal information
Nationality	Cuba
Born	(1983-10-24) 24 October 1983 Havana, Cuba
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Judo
Event	52 kg
Medal record Women's judo Representing Cuba Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro 57 kg Pan American Championships 2007 Montreal 57 kg

Yagnelis Mestre (born October 24, 1983, in Havana) is a Cuban judoka, who played for the half-middleweight category. She won a bronze medal for the 57 kg class at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Mestre represented Cuba at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's half-lightweight class (52 kg). She lost the first preliminary match to North Korea's An Kum-Ae, who scored a waza-ari-awasete-ippon before the start of the second minute. Because her opponent advanced further into the final match against China's Xian Dongmei, Mestre offered another shot for a bronze medal through the repechage, where she was defeated by Venezuela's Flor Velázquez, who only scored a single koka within a five-minute period.

External links

• Yagnelis Mestre at JudoInside.com
• NBC 2008 Olympics profile