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{{Short description|Mexican javelin thrower (born 1932)}}
{{family name hatnote|Yubi|Urías|lang=Spanish}}
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| sport       = Athletics
| event       = Javelin throw
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| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1932|1|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = San Juan, [[Sonora]], Mexico
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'''Amalia Yubi Urías''' (born 31 January 1932) is a Mexican [[Sport of athletics|athlete]]. She competed in the [[Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's javelin throw|women's javelin throw]] at the [[1952 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="SportsRef">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/amalia-yubi-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418060549/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/yu/amalia-yubi-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Amalia Yubi Olympic Results |access-date=17 January 2018}}</ref>
Yubi was born in San Juan, now located in [[Tubutama Municipality]], [[Sonora]].<ref name=SportsRef/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.critica.com.mx/vernoticias.php?artid=103356|title=Premio Sahuaro, enaltece la calidad humana|first=Eugenio|last=Madero|work=Critica.com.mx|date=31 August 2023|access-date=30 October 2024|language=es}}</ref> She is of Japanese descent.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.apj.org.pe/publicacion_detalle/fuerza-fukuokana-en-el-mundo-se-inauguro-en-el-museo-de-la-inmigracion-japonesa-al-peru-carlos-chiyoteru-hiraoka|title=“Fuerza Fukuokana en el Mundo” se inauguró en el Museo de la Inmigración Japonesa al Perú “Carlos Chiyoteru Hiraoka”|publisher=[[Japanese Peruvian Association]]|date=24 November 2022|access-date=30 October 2024|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://discovernikkei.org/en/journal/2022/9/28/katsuyuki-tanaka/|title=Who is Nikkei? A Conversation with the President of The Association of Nikkei & Japanese Abroad, Mr. Katsuyuki Tanaka|first=Alberto|last=Teramoto Ohara|work=[[Discover Nikkei]]|publisher=[[Japanese American National Museum]]|date=28 September 2022|access-date=30 October 2024}}</ref> In a 1954 article in ''Esto'', Yubi was described as having worked as a seamstress and a typewriter.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Sen Santos |first=Xochitl Andrea |date=August 2021 |title=Un resplandor difícil de no ver (las atletas mexicanas en la prensa especializada 1932-2016) |url=https://ru.dgb.unam.mx/bitstream/20.500.14330/TES01000813750/3/0813750.pdf |degree=PhD |publisher=[[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] |access-date=30 October 2024 |language=es |page=219}}</ref>
Yubi was inducted into the Sonora Sports Hall of Fame class of 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hacienda.sonora.gob.mx/media/199177/anexo-ii-organismos_ctapub09.pdf|title=Cuenta de la Hacienda Pública Estatal 2009|publisher=[[Government of Sonora]]|access-date=30 October 2024|language=es|page=12}}</ref>
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==External links==
* {{Olympedia|73451}}
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[[Category:1932 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Mexican female javelin throwers]]
[[Category:Mexican female hurdlers]]
[[Category:Olympic athletes for Mexico]]
[[Category:Competitors at the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games]]
[[Category:Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Mexico]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Sonora]]
[[Category:Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics]]
[[Category:20th-century Mexican women]]
[[Category:Mexican people of Japanese descent]]
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