Marcia Garbey

Cuban track and field athlete Marcia Garbey was a talented sprinter and long jumper who won multiple medals in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Garbey won gold at the 1967 Pan American Games in the 4 x 100 metres relay with Violeta Quesada, and the non-Olympians Cristina Echeverría and Miguelina Cobián. At the same Games she finished sixth in the long jump, before finishing seventh in 1971, and fifth in 1975. Garbey won four medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games with gold in the long jump (1970, 1974), silver in the pentathlon (1970), and bronze in the long jump (1966). She competed in the long jump at two editions of the Olympics, finishing 17th in Mexico City in 1968, and narrowly missing out on a medal in München in 1972 when she finished fourth. Her brother Rolando was a champion boxer who won multiple medals at the Pan American Games and the Olympics.

Personal Best: LJ – 6.62 (1975).