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This is a Spanish name; the first family name is Colón and the second is Rueñes-Salazar.
Medal record

María Colón
Women’s Athletics
Competitor for  Cuba
Olympic Games
Gold 1980 Moscow Javelin Throw
Pan American Games
Gold 1979 San Juan Javelin Throw
Gold 1983 Caracas Javelin Throw

María Caridad Colón Rueñes-Salazar (born March 25, 1958 in Baracoa) is a former javelin thrower from Cuba who won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

References

Olympic Champions in Women's Javelin Throw
1932: Babe Didrikson • 1936: Tilly Fleischer • 1948: Herma Bauma • 1952: Dana Zátopková • 1956: Inese Jaunzeme • 1960: Elvīra Ozoliņa • 1964: Mihaela Peneş • 1968: Angéla Németh • 1972: Ruth Fuchs • 1976: Ruth Fuchs • 1980: María Colón • 1984: Tessa Sanderson • 1988: Petra Felke • 1992: Silke Renk • 1996: Heli Rantanen • 2000: Trine Hattestad • 2004: Osleidys Menéndez • 2008: Barbora Špotáková
Pan American Champions in Women's Javelin Throw

 1951: Hortensia García (MEX)  •  1955: Karen Anderson (USA)  •  1959 – 1963: Marlene Ahrens (CHI)  •  1967: Barbara Friedrich (USA)  •  1971: Tomasa Núñez (CUB)  •  1975: Sherry Calvert (USA)  •  1979 – 1983: María Colón (CUB)  •  1987: Ivonne Leal (CUB)  •  1991: Dulce García (CUB)  •  1995: Xiomara Rivero (CUB)  •  1999: Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)  •  2003: Kim Kreiner (USA)  •  2007: Osleidys Menéndez (CUB)
Central American and Caribbean Games Champions in Women's Javelin Throw

 1938: Rebecca Coldberg (PUR)  •  1946 – 1950: Judith Caballero (PAN)  •  1954: Ana Campos (PAN)  •  1959: Berta Chiú (MEX)  •  1962 – 1966: Hilda Ramírez (CUB)  •  1970 – 1974: Tomasa Núñez (CUB)  •  1978 – 1986: María Colón (CUB)  •  1990: Herminia Bouza (CUB)  •  1993: Isel López (CUB)  •  1998: Sonia Bisset (CUB)  •  2002: Zuleima Araméndiz (COL)  •  2006: Sonia Bisset (CUB)







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