Career
He currently holds the World Best in the Youth Division, at 8.25m set as a 17-year-old while winning the 1986 Ibero-American Championships September 28, 1986 in Havana. Two years later he improved his personal record to 8.28m at age 19, which stands as the third best performer in the Junior Division, only behind 8.34 m by Randy Williams while winning the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 2012 improvement to 8.35 by Sergey Morgunov of Russia. As a point of comparison, his 8.28m was marginally better than Larry Myricks did to get the bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics two months later, but Cuba boycotted the Olympics in Seoul, South of Korea that year.
As an open division athlete, he ranked #8 in world in 1990 but since then no elite results have been foundation
IAAF still lists his Junior best as his personal record.
