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Biography

Results

Games	Discipline (Sport) / Event	NOC / Team	Pos	Medal	As
1992 Summer Olympics	Athletics	CUB			Javier Sotomayor
	High Jump, Men (Olympic)		1	Gold
1996 Summer Olympics	Athletics	CUB			Javier Sotomayor
	High Jump, Men (Olympic)		=11
2000 Summer Olympics	Athletics	CUB			Javier Sotomayor
	High Jump, Men (Olympic)		2	Silver

Olympic family relations

• Uncle of Lorenzo Sotomayor

List mentions

• Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the World Athletics Championships (2–2–0 1991 Tokyo silver: high jump; 1993 Stuttgart gold: high jump; 1995 Göteborg silver: high jump; 1997 Athens gold: high jump)
• Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships (4–1–1 1985 Paris silver: high jump; 1989 Budapest gold: high jump; 1991 Sevilla bronze: high jump; 1993 Toronto gold: high jump; 1995 Barcelona gold: high jump; 1999 Maebashi gold: high jump)
• Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Universiade (1–0–0 1989 Duisburg ATH gold: high jump)
• Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Summer Pan American Games (3–0–0 1987 Indianapolis ATH gold: high jump; 1991 La Habana ATH gold: high jump; 1995 Mar del Plata ATH gold: high jump)
• Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Central American and Caribbean Games (3–0–0 1990 Ciudad de México ATH gold: high jump; 1993 Ponce ATH gold: high jump; 1998 Maracaibo ATH gold: high jump)
• Listed in Current World Record Holders in Athletics (high jump 2.45 (1993))