Yalennis Castillo

Yalennis Castillo Ramírez (born May 21, 1986) is a Cuban judoka.[1][2] She was born in Moa, Holguín, Cuba on May 21, 1986. She practiced judo since she was a child.

Yalennis Castillo

Castillo (left) at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1986-05-21) 21 May 1986
Occupation	Judoka
Sport
Country	Cuba
Sport	Judo
Weight class	–70 kg, –78 kg
Achievements and titles
Pan American Champ.	(2006, 2014)
Olympic Games	(2008)
Medal record Women's judo Representing  Cuba Olympic Games 2008 Beijing –78 kg Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara –78 kg 2015 Toronto –78 kg Pan American Championships 2006 Buenos Aires –70 kg 2014 Guayaquil –78 kg 2008 Miami –70 kg 2010 San Salvador –78 kg 2012 Montreal –78 kg 2004 Isla Margarita –78 kg 2004 Isla Margarita Open 2011 Guadalajara –78 kg 2015 Edmonton –78 kg 2016 Havana –78 kg IJF Grand Prix 2014 Havana –78 kg 2016 Almaty –78 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF	3082
JudoInside.com	38896
Updated on 24 October 2022.

She first won medals in the 2005 Pan American Games and the Leonding Tournament in Austria. She won the Silver Medal in the 2006 World Cup by Teams and Bronze Medal in the 2007 World Cup in Vienna, Austria. That year 2007 she also participated in the World Championship in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Her greatest result was in the 2008, where Castillo won a silver medal in the -78 kg category at the 2007 World Judo Championships in a disputed match against the local contender Xiuli Yang. During 2008 she also won the Torneo de Cuenca in Ecuador, the Tre Torri in Italy, the Super Cup of the World, in Hamburg, Germany, and the Pan American Games in Miami, USA.

Castillo was intermittently in and out of international competition due to an injury and because she married Cuban baseball player Frank Camilo Morejón and had a child. By 2014 she had returned to competition. She participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. There, she lost in the quarterfinals to Anamari Velenšek from Slovenia and then lost the bronze medal match through the repechage, finishing 5th.