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Ana Ivis Diáz Martínez, 49, has been coaching junior teams in Cuba since 1983 and has participated in three Junior World Championships and one Youth World Championship where Cuba always finished among the best eight places.

Since 1970 to 1982, she took part in four World Championships, three Olympic Games, four World Cups, three Pan-American Games, three Centro American Games and three World University Games, where her teams finished second and third.

A member of the Cuban Volleyball Federation Volleyball Commission, she has been playing a crucial role in developing the young up and coming talent in the country but her best moment came as a player when Cuba won the World Championship for the first time in their history in 1978.