Yadira Silva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Yadira Silva Llorente | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Mexican | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Unión de Reyes, Matanzas, Cuba | 24 December 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Offensive | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Blade: Butterfly Timo Boll Spirit Forehand Rubber: Butterfly Tenergy 64 Backhand Rubber: Butterfly Tenergy 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 211 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yadira Silva Llorente (born 24 December 1985) is a Cuban-born Mexican table tennis player who participated in the 2008, 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics
After winning several medals in the 2002 Cuban National Games and 2003 Junior Latin American Championships playing as a Cuban, Silva married Mexican coach Roberto Madrigal Hernández and established herself in Mexico. With her new citizenship, she represented Mexico in the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament, qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she was knocked out in the qualification round. She won the 2010 Latin American Championship and the silver medal in the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and 2011 Latin American Cup.
Silva played in the 2008, 2010 and 2012 World Team Championships, helping Mexico to reach the 56th, 59th and 66th place. In the 2011 World Championships she played the singles, women's and mixed doubles without reaching the main draw. In 2010 she won the Tabasco's State Sports Award. In the 2012 Summer Olympics she failed to progress beyond the qualification round.