Going in as clear favorite she settled for a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, narrowly losing to Nurutdinova 1:57.50 to 1:57.55. She did however rank #1 for the year in the 400 metres (for the 2nd and final time) in 1990, making her the only women in history thus far (as of 2017) to rank #1 in the world multiple years in both the 400m and 800m. This lone defeat bumped her down the 3rd in the Track and Field News 800m rankings, as it was her only meeting with the two women in 1990, after having been ranked 1st in both 19. Quirot was unbeaten at the 800 metres for almost three years, from her fourth place at the 1987 Worlds, to the Zurich Grand Prix in August 1990, when she was third behind the East German pair of Wodars and Christine Wachtel. She was ranked #1 for the year for both the 400m and 800m. She won the 400m in 50.38 and the 800m in 1:57.42, narrowly ahead of the Soviet Union's Liliya Nurutdinova, who ran 1:57.52.
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 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.
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