![]() In 1990, she again achieved a 400m, 800m double, this time at the Goodwill Games in Seattle. She also won the 400m, after original winner Marie-Jose Perec was disqualified for running out of her lane. In a race that was fast from the start, thanks to the front running of World and Olympic champion Wodars, Quirot won in 1:54.44, to move to (at the time) third on the world all-time list behind world-record holder Jarmila Kratochvilova and 1980 Olympic champion Nadezhda Olizarenko. She was ranked #1 for the year for 800 metres and #4 for 400 metres.Īt the 1989 IAAF World Cup in Barcelona, Quirot reached her peak at 800 metres. However, the Cuban boycott prevented her from competing. In 1988 she was favored to win the 800 metres gold medal as she went undefeated in the event that season, including winning meetings with her two main rivals and the Olympic Gold and silver medalists Sigrun Wodars and Christine Wachtel, and favored to win a medal in the 400 metres. The race was won by East Germany's Sigrun Wodars in 1:55.32. She ran onto the leader in the final bend to make a bid for winning the race, but ended up tiring and fading to 4th in the home stretch. Later that year at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, she improved her 800m best 1:55.84, to finish fourth in a high quality final. In the 400m, she ran 50.27 to defeat Canada's Jillian Richardson, while in the 800m she defeated Delisa Walton-Floyd of the US in 1:59.06. Four years later at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis, she won both the 400m and 800m. In 1983, she won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the Pan American Games in Caracas, running 51.83. She is regarded as one of the best female 800m runners of all time, and probably the best to not have an Olympic gold medal in the event. Her best time of 1:54.44 from 1989 still ranks her fifth on the world all-time list. At 800 metres, she is a two-time World Champion (1995, 1997) and a two-time Olympic medallist (1992, 1996). In August 2019, Arzamasova was provisionally suspended after testing positive for the banned steroid-like substance LGD-4033.In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Quirot and the second or maternal family name is Moré.Īna Fidelia Quirot Moré ( Spanish pronunciation: born March 23, 1963) is a former track and field athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 400 m. Her mother, Ravilya Agletdinova was also a middle-distance runner and won the 1500 m European title in 1986 – an achievement which Arzamasava repeated. In 2019, she won the silver medal in the team event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. One year later she became world champion in the 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing. In August 2014, Arzamasova won 2014 European Athletics Championships in the 800 metres in a European leading time of 1:58.15. She won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 800 metres. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 800 metres.
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