ZAYAS Luis Enrique

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	High Jump
2019	Doha, QAT	5th (2.30)

Pan American Games

Year	Location	High Jump
2019	Lima, PER	1st (2.30)

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
8	2021	High Jump	World Athletics Continental Tour	Szekesfehervar, HUN	2.24

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

Luisitin [Little Luis]. (radionuevitas.icrt.cu, 06 May 2020)

Spanish

Juan Francisco Centelles [personal], CUB, from 2019

His mother Tania Fernandez represented Cuba in the 400m hurdles at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy. (SportsDeskOnline, 16 Jul 2020; juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019)

A sprained ankle affected his performance at the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia. (juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019)

He was affected by back, ankle, and knee injuries in 2016. (juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019)

He competed at the 2015 Pan American Junior Championships in Edmonton, AB, Canada, with a knee injury. (juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019)

He got involved in athletics at age 11 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. A year later he took up high jump. (sierramaestra.cu, 20 Aug 2019)

He used to play water polo but he kept on getting ill. His mother, a former international hurdler, then took him to an athletics try out. "My mother was a teacher at the athletics academy at the Jose del Cabo stadium [in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba]. I did a try out and we all decided I had to switch to athletics. Because of her I began doing sprints but one day I saw older boys doing high jump so I started training." (juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019; sierramaestra.cu, 20 Aug 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (radionuevitas.icrt.cu, 06 May 2020)

Winning gold in high jump at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. (sierramaestra.cu, 20 Aug 2019)

Cuban high jumper Javier Sotomayor. (radionuevitas.icrt.cu, 06 May 2020)

Coach Barbaro Diaz Castro. (juventudrebelde.cu, 28 Sep 2019)