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Olympic Games

Year	Location	800m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (2:00.50)
2012	London, GBR	SF (2:01.70)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	800m	4 x 400m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (2:01.18)	Heats (3:29.84)
2017	London, GBR	SF (1:59.79)	-
2015	Beijing, CHN	SF (2:00.38)	-
2013	Moscow, RUS	SF (2:00.98)	-

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 400m
2021	Chorzow, POL	1st (3:28.41)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	800m	1500m	4 x 400m
2019	Lima, PER	2nd (2:01.64)	7th (4:14.81)	4th (3:30.89)

NACAC Championships

Year	Location	800m
2018	Toronto, ON, CAN	3rd (2:00.15)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	800m
2021	1 x 1st, 1 x 9th
2017	1 x 6th, 1 x 7th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	800m	Stockholm, SWE	1:56.28
6	2017	800m	Stockholm, SWE	1:59.93
7	2017	800m	Oslo, NOR	2:00.34
9	2021	800m	Monaco, MON	1:58.51

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2017	800m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	1:59.11
3	2018	800m	World Challenge	Madrid, ESP	2:02.30

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Watching television. (acn.cu, 02 Jul 2018)

Athlete

Francisco Ayala

Her aunt Eusebia Riquelme represented Cuba in the 4x100m relay at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. (SportsDeskOnline, 16 Jul 2020; acn.cu, 02 Jul 2018)

She took up the sport at age 11 at the School of Sport Initiation in Camaguey, Cuba. (supercuba.wordpress.com, 14 Mar 2011)

She was involved in gymnastics and dance before opting for athletics. She was inspired to follow into the footsteps of her aunt Eusebia Riquelme, who was an international sprinter for Cuba. "I preferred sprinting but I switched to middle distance running because my first coaches thought it suited my physique." (acn.cu, 02 Jul 2018)

To reach the final at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cubasi.cu, 19 Apr 2020)

She trains at the Pan American Stadium in Havana, Cuba, and also has training camps at altitude in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. (cubasi.cu, 19 Apr 2020; radiohc.cu, 16 Mar 2020)

Cuban runner Ana Fidelia Quirot, Cuban sprinter [and her aunt] Eusebia Riquelme. (cubasi.cu, 19 Apr 2020; acn.cu, 02 Jul 2018)

In 2015 and 2018 she was named Most Outstanding Female Athlete in Camaguey, Cuba. (acn.cu, 29 Dec 2018; radiosantacruz.icrt.cu, 11 Dec 2015)