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 USA 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.
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